Of Animation and Live Action

While I was studying at FTII, I never knew a word called 'live-action' - its only after coming to NID that the term came to me, as a means of dividing cinema into animation and otherwise. While this division does help in according due respect to the drawn moving image in the larger pantheon of cinema, it also perpetuates its divorce from things cinematic.

Cinema

Cinema, like other art forms, seeks to restfully unfold those parts of the real which are familiar and therefore fable.

Indian Animation

Till the time Indian Animation does not resist an uncritical worship of the West, an unthinking celebration of the fantastic or the funny and a larger-than-life image of drawing skills for their own sake, it will remain a secret-brotherhood of on-the-margins-of-cinema artists extolling the periphery.

Truth

Truth is tiny and comes in delicate wafts of ephemeral insights. Truth is immense in its short supply and a longer high.

Your best friend

Your body is your best friend; give it the hugs it deserves, for what it preserves - the idea that is you.

Arrival

With violence you arrive at your objectives; with peace you arrive.

Of Success

The most successful way to achieve success is to taste defeat - the latter induces you to seduce the former even more arduously, or better still, change the object of ardour.