Game Changing Role of Animation and VFX in Indian Cinema

Abstract

Indian cinema has come a long way from silent era to sound, colour, masala movies and animated movies. In 1896, Lumiere Brothers screened their short films at Watson Hotel of Bombay. It was the first time when Indian audience watched the movie. Since then Indian cinema has gone through several changes and adopted latest technology.This holds more true for the last century were huge technological advancement has taken place. Today, production process of a film is completely changed. Films are produced at rapid speed with the use of latest film making technology. Indian films producedwith low budget and older technology are competing with their expensive and technologically advanced foreign counterparts. Indian cinema has continuously evolved in over last 100 years and reinvented itself to meet the latest challenges. This has given hope to the budding film makers. The study focuses on adaptation of animation and visual effects contributing to Indian Cinema narrative combininglive motion picture with computer generated imagery.