India's first animated film, about the monkey-god, Hanuman ("huh-nu-maan"), loyal devotee of Ram ("raam", "a" as in "father") in the Ramayana. Interesting story, of all things, on ABC.
The film's website is pretty slick, with two video clips. An animated "little Hanuman" keeps popping up around the screen, more reminiscent of a naughty Gopal really (the god Krishna as a child, known as makhan chor - butter-thief. Think stealing from the cookie jar.) . The clips (well, clip; one is just a truncated bit of the title sequence) have an Amar Chitra Katha feel about them ("Immortal Picture Tales" -- that popular series of children's comic books that has introduced at least one, if not two generations of Westernized urban Indian kids to the subcontinent's history and religious heritage. Yep, they have one about Jesus Christ [even there, rather lily-white looking], and Mother Teresa as well).
The AP story on ABC says that animated films are not that popular in India. Um, anyone who knows me, knows that Tom and Jerry Rocks. Surely a few of my billion compatriots would agree :-)
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