hi priya We do not have enough space for children in our entertainment industry, particularly in the Cinema industry. Mainstream or animated, movies belong to that genre is very very rare. When we make such movies, we easily resort on the Purana/epic stories and it doesn’t make much impact on children like the animated movies from Hollywood do. The examples are Krishna, My Friend Ganesha or Bal Ganesh of which the latter is said to be a good attempt on the animation part, but still failed to make a mark with regards to the animation. One rediff review said that these belong to the category of the 3D cartoons in Cartoon Network. Even though we have many creative artists, we fail to do something beyond the ‘ordinary’ in this case.
But the really funny thing is that we believe that the Hollywood had to resort on Cars, Robots etc because they don’t have story rich epics like we have. Prince of Egypt was made out of the story of Moses from Old Testament in The Bible. If they were to follow religious epics, they also could have made ‘moralistic‘ movies based on religious texts. Instead of appreciating that the Hollywood had made animated movies even from the raw themes like Cars and Robots, we find it as an excuse to justify the lack of creativity that we have here when it comes to the animated movies.
Also do we even realize that there was Walt Disney Pictures long before Pixar made movies? And they made animated movies even before the computer animation took place? No, they didn’t have to resort on religious epics to teach ‘morale‘ to the children. Remember Little Mermaid, Jungle Book, Hunchback of Notredam, Tarzan etc etc from Disney and Finding Nemo, Shark Tale, Incredibles, Cars etc from Pixar? Think how creative those were and how it entertained the children and adults alike all over the world.
I would say take movies like My Dear Kuttichaathan, the first 3D film produced by Appachan that made waves among children even when it was released for the second time. Take the children to a magical land like Narnia. Show some creativity. We have so many of such characters in the magazines for children which are quite popular in the print media. Why not make movies as such rather than finding an excuse by blaming Hollywood and being happy in the false pride
for more inf check http://mutiny.in/2007/11/29/animate d-movies-in-india/
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10:29 AM on September 01, 2008