Are the lovable Mickey Mouse and Jerry evil? Sheikh Muhammad Munajid seems to think so and would like nothing better than to see them killed. He claims the mouse is “one of Satan’s soldiers” and makes everything it touches impure. He warns that cartoon depictions of the animal such as Jerry and Disney’s Mickey Mouse [...]

Now that the noise has died down and the dust has settled, the casualty is slowly beginning to show. For two years everyone was shouting from the rooftops about the animation boom in India. Institutes proclaimed India needs animators and ill-informed parents poured out their hard-earned money into many an unworthy school. Many people left [...]

The world waits eagerly for animated films that the US makes. European countries have had a long standing tradition of animation. Our Asian neighbours like Japan and Korea have also managed to get it right. Then why has it been so tough for India to achieve true animation success?
There are some obvious factors and then [...]