Hanuman finds senorita Sita in Ravan's garden. Being one mucho tough hombre, he then gets into a fight with los rakshasos, until Indrajit zaps him with the BrahmAstra (aye caramba!). Los rakshasos then take him in front of Ravana, and set his tail on fire (agua! agua!) After setting Lanka on fire, Hanuman douses his tail and escapes (vamanos, hanuman! vamanos!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7WjDt2Z_9k
I dunno, sounds like a spaghetti western to me. Anyone habla espanol?
Fortunately, there is no Mel Gibson version, where he has to outrun the jaguar while fleeing the human sacrifice ritual.
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Here, I've found part1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXZBpkmPwE
I notice that Hanuman's attracting most of the animation interest these days. He's racking up more onscreen incarnations than Batman.
I thought it was well made.
I liked the background music, and thought the guitar strums during the Lanka city and garden scenes in Part1 were particularly nice, as they added to the fantasy atmosphere.
The quality of the background matte artwork was nice, but I felt the foreground animating figures needed improvement. Oh well, animation is too new to India. If only we'd been doing it for decades like the Japanese, we'd probably have refined it to a higher state by now.
Arvind, my tone was intended to be tongue-in-cheek. I too thought it was a nicely done, barring a few minor criticisms. But I think animation is ideal for presenting mythological tales. Better to break the worthless bollywood monopoly, where any idiots with a camera and an ego can set themselves up as "entertainers". Here, the bar is higher, the choices are more deliberated, and the rifraff can't even gain entry into the market space.
Just like how talk-radio has become a bastion for conservative voices in N.America, likewise animation could become a robust niche area for us to dominate and project values from. Animation has the ability to appeal to younger audiences, which allows us to get our foot in the door first, before all the other corrupting bollywood crap. And I think it's a media which better matches the Indian psyche and culture, just as it has similarly popularized itself in Japan.
liked ur espanol comments in parantheses. watch a lot of Dora the Explorer. do ya? i'm glad our stories are finally getting around the world. :)
muchas gracias senor...
On a similar note, Deepak Chopra is coming out with a comic book on Ganesha. This looks like a great medium for spreading knowledge about Hinduism across the world. This is a Virgin Comics (Yes, Branson's Operation), so it has all the right things going for it. Shekar Kapur is involved in some form or other. Hoping that this comic depicts good things about Ganesha and not just some bull. Any thoughts on this?
http://www.amazon.com/Deepak-Chopras-India-Authentic-Chopra/dp/1934413089/ref=sr_1_4/002-8508357-2212057?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180935683&sr=1-4
In 1992, Vanraj Bhatia in collaboration with some Japanese, came out with a well made full length animated version of the Ramayana.
See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259534/
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