Animated Response

Agrawal, who showed the movie only to select invitees and not a barrage of popcorn-clutching children, does not think animation films are kiddie stuff. 8220;The notion that animation is meant for children is rampant in India. It8217;ll take time for people to acknowledge that filmmakers are depicting mature issues through the medium,8221; she says. Little wonder that Agrawal, who graduated from the Delhi College of Art and did master8217;s in computer animation from Sheridan College, Canada, projected on the screen three films made over the past two years. While 10th Avatar harped on the overarching importance of television, Dream Magic, a four-minute film commissioned by the Canada National Film Board, had animation based on the etchings of documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin, while Dundas n Bathrust depicted the diversity of Toronto in a minute. 8220;Each project was different in theme and treatment,8221; says Agrawal, who often refers to Indian folklore for inspiration. If the storyboard of 10th Avatar has reflections of Mughal miniature paintings, she is planning a mythological narrative in her next.

With animation on the forefront, the fine arts may have taken a backseat but Agrawal hopes to produce another set of miniature 3-D clay caricatures akin to the display at her solo exhibition at the India Habitat Centre two years ago. They had tongue-in-cheek taglines like 8220;Silence 8212; antarman ki aawaz8221; for Sonia Gandhi and 8220;I am a heavyweight. Don8217;t undermine me8221; for

J. Jayalalithaa8217;s caricature, but as she goes back to the storyboard, Agrawal assures that the forthcoming exhibition, which will take a jab at film stars, will be better. An animated response is, of course, welcome.

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