Character Designs on Mullah Nasiruddin

Hi everybody,

Wish you a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. May this New Year brings you love, peace and happiness in your life.

It’s been a long time since I’ve uploaded something on my blog. Below there are couple of images from an animated cartoon series on Mullah Nasiruddin which I was designing. Right now I am concentrating on the pre-production part, collecting various stories and converting them into the screenplay. I hope you will like this work. This work is in initial stage, your suggestions would be really very valuable for me.

Once again Happy New Year. Best Regards, Vibhuti Pandya

The Animated Spot Film on BPL

This post is dedicated to.......... मेरा बहुत ही प्यारा दोस्त कमल कुमार खोखावत, जो अब इस दुनिया में नही है......................और आज ही उसका जन्मदिन भी है, मै ईश्वर से प्रार्थना करता हूँ, उसकी आत्मा को शान्ति प्रदान करे।

Anyway................................There are few sketches from the movie........... I hope you will enjoy. Please give your comments in the comment box. Thanks.

The team members of this Project. I really appreciate them for their hard working attitude. They worked day and night regularly through out the project.

My Work Station with few slides..........

There are few inspirational sketches, which are prepared before starting the actual production.

The key message of the spot film is “Come and utilize health care services provided for you free of cost, utilize these services at the nearest health care center” The target group is BPL, ST, Women and other privileged groups. The spot is based on dialogue between two-puppet characters- Male- Mansukhiya and Female- Putli Bai. These are the popular string puppets of the Rajasthan. I was always passionate to draw Rajasthani Characters in cartoon form as I was born and brought up in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Whatever I have seen in my surroundings I want to implement them through my creativity. You can also enjoy the interesting dance sequence during this spot film.

In this Animated Spot Film My role was as a Director, I enjoyed lot to design and animate these characters in the Rajasthani “Kaalbeliya” style.

First of all I would like to extend my special thanks to my dear colleague Mr. Vivek Sharma who came up with a wonderful storyboard and animation. I am also thankful to another colleague Mr. Gautam Goswami who designed a background for this spot film. I am heartily thankful to my two students- Abhishek Sahay and Anshul Jain who worked really hard in the whole project. I would like to extend my very- very special thanks to my all the team members like Saurabh Anand, Tejeshwar Prasad, Saumen Chandra Mandel, Shreejeet, Kaushik Lohani, Raghav Choudhary, Ankit Jain,  Hemant Kulshreshtha, Navanka Kedia, Prerna Khandelwal, Sukriti Verma, Bhawini Mittal, Shipra Khattar and Neha Saxena for their contribution. Without them I was not able to complete this enormous task successfully.

I would like to extend my very-very special thanks to the Dr. Achla Kapoor, (Associate Director- ICEA) Mrs. Sunita Toumar (Consultant-RHSDP) and Dr. Hemant Acharya (Consultant-IEC) for giving me a wonderful opportunity. Thanking you and enjoy all the images and Spot Film.

Best Regards,

Vibhuti Pandya

An Exhibition of Caricatures" Serene Silhouette"

A News paper cutting from The Hindustan Times on 04th May 2009 A News paper cutting from Times of India on 06th May 2009 A News paper cutting from DNA on 30th April 2009 A news paper cutting from Rajasthan Patrika on 29th April 2009 A news paper cutting from Dainik Bhaskar on 30th April 2009 With Dr.Vidhya Sagar Upadhyaya Few moment with Prof. P.N. Choyal, An Eminent sr.Painter Me & My Wife Kriti, My Daughter Heli and My Son Atharv Pandya Interviewing with the reporter of Times of India. Guest of Honor Dr. Abhinav Dinesh, Director, Birla Institute of Technology Inaugrated by Dr. Vidhya Sagar Upadhyaya An Eminent Artist Well, after long time I could get the time for posting some new stuff. Today I am going to publish few more photographs and newspaper cuttings of my recent exhibition of caricatures, which was held at Sukriti Art Gallery, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur from 28th To 30th April 2009. The entire caricatures have been prepared on the current issues and completed within 15 days of time frame. Overall around 52 caricatures were displayed in the art gallery. That was really a great experience, wonder & miracle for me to complete this enormous and incredible task successfully.

“Serene Silhouette” means composed figure with outlines, I generally use lines, curves and shapes to create a caricature. It is so much fun to exaggerate the features of people, friends, political leaders, Indian gurus, eminent artists; film stars, criminals etc. distort their faces and make them look funny. I do not add any satire on anybody because it goes out of the limits of cartoon area that may hurt anybody personally. I do not want any controversies, it is neat and clean humor, just for everyone’s enjoyment. For me it is feature of personality or the subject which inspire me to make a cartoon out of it. I have made a series on expressions of Lalu Prasad Yadav and Dr. Man Mohan Singh, but I have not lost any sense of delicacy.

This exhibition was dedicated to Sri Satya Sai Baba, Who gave me so much energy and blessings during I was working for the exhibition.

I would like to extend my special thanks to Mr. Gautam Goswami and Mr. Nitin Jain who spent their so much time to apply all the necessary arrangements like photography, encouragement, Publicity, coverage etc. ……..And very special thanks to Mrs. Neerja Sharma and Mr. Rishi Pandey for helping me to identify the title and designing invitation card, Banner, Boucher etc.

I would like to thanks to Mr. Mukesh Salvi, Mr. Abhishek Sahaye, Mr. Anshul Jain, Mr. Dinesh Sharma, Mr. Amit Dube, Mr. Shrijeet, Mr. Bhaskar and Mr. Koushik Lohani for displaying all the caricatures, gallery decoration, distributing the invitation cards and press related work, without them I could not complete my task successfully……..really appreciative.

I would like to extend my special thanks to my colleagues Mr. Vivek Sharma, Mr. Manish Chowdhry, and Mrs. Rishika Sharma for motivating me always.

I am grateful to my Father Dr. Jyotipunj, Mother Mrs. Manjula Pandya, Brother Geetansh Pandya and my wife Kriti Pandya who encouraged and supported me whole-heartedly throughout this project.

………….and lot of thanks to the media persons for advertising & promoting this event through the FM Radios, News Papers, and the News Channels etc.

Thanking you,

Vibhuti Pandya