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Indian animation gets a makeover
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Indian Animation Gets a Makeover, Animation Films in India, Intentional Children’s Film Festival. The director is now bearing the fruits of her 78-minute animation comedy drama as it received a standing ovation when it was recently screened at the Mumbai Film Festival.
It is a challenging task to make animation films in India since they are time consuming and expensive, says - Shilpa Ranade
Our film correspondent
It couldn’t have been a better moral booster for director Shilpa Ranade than to see her film ‘Goopi Gawaiyaa Bagha Bajaiyaa’ (The world of Goopi and Bagha), an adaptation of Satyajit Ray’s 1969 children’s film, opening the 18th Intentional Children’s Film Festival (ICFFI). An associate professor at the industrial design centre at IIT Mumbai, Shilpa took two and half years to make the film. “I had fun doing illustrations for Hindi version of ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’, a work of renowned Bengali writer Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury. I felt it could be a great plot for a movie before deciding to do it”.
The director is now bearing the fruits of her 78-minute animation comedy drama as it received a standing ovation when it was recently screened at the Mumbai Film Festival. “The film had nearly 260 characters, each painted and shot in 13 frames,” she insists.
Speaking about the unconventional story of the film, she says, “It’s the story of two characters Gopi and Bagha who are in stark contrast to each other. They make unlikely heroes. If Gopi loves to song, Bagha loves to play the drums. They create a disharmony in village, resulting in the villagers banning them. They meet in a forest and decide to indulge in their passion freely. Enchanted by their music, King of Spirits grants them four boons- savour the food they love, transport themselves anywhere and enthrall anyone, only if they stay as one.”
She continues, “They keep one boon with them and go to other kingdoms and avert wars. Eventually they marry princess and turn kings. Unlikely heroes, they give back the power to common man.”
Once a lecturer in Audio Visual Unit at the Tata Institute of Social Science, Shilpa believes it’s a challenging task to make animation films in India since they are time consuming and expensive. “Only one or two animation films release in India once a year and more importantly it is difficult to get family and audience to watch them.”
The film which will be fighting out in the international best animation film category is a production of Children's Film Society of India (CFSI).
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