Animation in bollywood

ANIMATION IN BOLLYWOOD By:- MAAC Animation Kolkata http://animationkolkata.com/

About the Author: Animation kolkata is one of the best and oldest MAAC centre in Eastern India. It is a part of MAAC family since nearly the inception of MAAC in Kolkata and having three branches at Kolkata. MAAC CHOWRINGHEE, MAAC KANKURGACHI & MAAC RASHBEHARI and one in Delhi namely MAAC South Ex. With more than 3000 students taught and over 1000 placed, one of the leading 3D animation institute in Kolkata and vfx course provider in INDIA too.

INTRODUCTION The Indian animation industry encompasses both traditional twodimensional traditional and 3D animation, as well as visual effects for feature films.1956, Disney Studios animator Clair Weeks, who had worked on Bambi, was invited to Films Division of India in Mumbai to establish and train the country's first animation studio as part of the American technical cooperation mission.

Animation seems to be the next big thing in Indian movies and Hollywood may have something to do with it.

Movies like Shrek, Ice Age, Cars etc. have been smash hits across the globe and Bollywood obviously would not want to be left behind.

TOP ANIMATED MOVIES..

Bollywood animation movies aren't on the same scale of graphics as Hollywood animation movies,

• Mainly because of budget.

Animation is very popular in hollywood, so producers spend a lots of money to make the graphics look as cool as possible but it's not as popular in Bollywood,

• So producers don't spend money on it because they don't want lose money if the movie fails to make the audience show up to watch it.

This list contains a collection of animation movies in Bollywood.

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Delhi Safari

Delhi Safari is a 2012 Indian bilingual stereoscopic 3D computeranimated comedy feature film directed by Nikhil Advani. • It has been produced by Krayon Pictures (a Pune-based 3D animation studio).

The film is based on a story and concept by Advani and features the voices of Akshaye Khanna, Govinda, Sunil Shetty, Boman Irani, and Urmila Matondkar. • The screenplay of the film is written by Girish Dhamija and Suresh Nair. The film traces the journey of five animals and birds from Mumbai to Delhi.

The music of the film is composed by ShankarEhsaan-Loy, while the lyrics are penned by Sameer.

It is India's first stereoscopic 3D animation feature film.

JUMB O

Jumbo is a 2008 Bollywood animation film directed by Kompin Kemgumnird, produced

by Percept Picture Company and features the voices of Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Dimple Kapadia, Rajpal Yadav, Asrani, Gulshan Grover, and Yuvraj Singh.

It has Yashveer Bains as lead role of Jumbo. The film is an official remake/redubbing of the 2006 Thai film Khan Kluay.

The film was dubbed and released in Hindi and the creative direction on the Hindi film was by Mayur Puri.

Jumbo released worldwide on Christmas Day 2008, but was met with poor critical reviews and turned out to be one of the biggest box office disasters of the year.

In 2011 A direct to DVD sequel titled Jumbo 2: The Return of the Big Elephant was released.

Ramayana: The Epic It is a 2010 computer-animated film from India's Maya Digital Media.Directed by Chetan Desai and produced by Ketan Mehta,it was released by Warner Bros. India on 15 October 2010.

The film is a retelling of the story of Lord Rama, from his birth until his battle with Ravan at Sri Lanka

Ramayana is the directorial debut of Chetan Desai,the chairman and managing director of Maya Digital Media.

More than 400 crewmembers worked on the film over a five-year period; the first three years were spent designing the characters, while the other two were devoted to actual production.

Toonpur Hero

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(Translation: Toonpur's Super Hero) is a 2010 3D animation film written by Raaghi Bhatnagar and directed by Kireet Khurana.

The film features Ajay Devgan, Kajol, Sanjay Mishra, Tanuja and Mukesh Tiwari in lead roles along with a number of animated characters.

The film was remade in English in early 2011.

Even though the film was India's first live action - 3D animation combination feature film, it failed to do well at the box office.

It was disliked by many critics, who pointed out some of the spoilers of the film, such as it being a remake of the 1996 family film, Space Jam, which starred Michael Jordan.

Hanuma n (Hindi: हनम न मान) is a 2005 animated feature film directed by VG Samant and produced by Percept Pictures and Silvertoons.

The animated film dramatizes the life of its title character, The animation was created by Kakarakaya Pulsu. It is India's first major commercial family animated feature (there were several earlier ones made by Pentamedia Graphics).

Its box office was Rs. 8.18 crores and was declared a hit.

Mahabharat

is a 2013 Indian computer animated historical drama film, directed by • Amaan Khan and based on the Hindu epic

The film was a Christmas release on 27 December 2013.Several actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn, Vidya Balan, Sunny Deol, Anil Kapoor, have been signed up for the characters in the film.

Mahabharat is touted as most expensive animated film in Bollywood.