HYDERABAD: An almost extinct folk art form from parts of Northern India gets merged with animation to narrate a Panchatantra tale. Dhvani Desai, the director of ‘Manpasand’ brings alive the 17th century tradition that was used to encourage unmarried girls take up Sanjhi paintings in order to obtain a suitable groom.
“Once the paintings were done, the tradition had the girls setting them free in the river for universal blessings. It was originally practiced as one of the traditional methods of creative visualisation to fulfil one’s wishes,” explains the director who has been associated with animation and special effects for the last 16 years.
Extinct art
‘Manpasand’ is about a journey of a father in search of a suitable groom for his daughter and to narrate this Panchatantra tale is used. “I worked on the project for more than two years and 42 artists were involved with it. Considerable time was spent on researching the Sanjhi art which is almost extinct and we travelled a lot to find the right practitioners,” Dhvani says.
Apart from the technique of Sanjhi, the underlying spiritual aspect appealed to the director who is credited with cartoon and animated titles for several feature films produced by NFDC among others. After the success of ‘Hanuman’, the animation scene in the country was more active these days. “Earlier, the initiatives were on smaller scale and animation was done for few minutes. Now full-length also seem to be catching up,” she says.
Source: http://www.hindu.com/
“Once the paintings were done, the tradition had the girls setting them free in the river for universal blessings. It was originally practiced as one of the traditional methods of creative visualisation to fulfil one’s wishes,” explains the director who has been associated with animation and special effects for the last 16 years.
Extinct art
‘Manpasand’ is about a journey of a father in search of a suitable groom for his daughter and to narrate this Panchatantra tale is used. “I worked on the project for more than two years and 42 artists were involved with it. Considerable time was spent on researching the Sanjhi art which is almost extinct and we travelled a lot to find the right practitioners,” Dhvani says.
Apart from the technique of Sanjhi, the underlying spiritual aspect appealed to the director who is credited with cartoon and animated titles for several feature films produced by NFDC among others. After the success of ‘Hanuman’, the animation scene in the country was more active these days. “Earlier, the initiatives were on smaller scale and animation was done for few minutes. Now full-length also seem to be catching up,” she says.
Source: http://www.hindu.com/
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