Mumbai is known for its public transportation. A local train every three minutes, a bus stop every half a kilometre, and the availability of so many taxis and autorikshaws round the clock tell the story. The fares are the cheapest in India. Because of these reasons, it has become the best public transportation in India. But is it really the best? Does it really solve a common man's transportation problems? Almost everybody agreed that the buses and trains are overcrowded and their frequency needs to be increased in rush hours. We made a comparative study of different modes of public transportation to understand the difficulties faced by a commuter while travelling to or from a place he has never or less visited before by one or more modes of public transportation. The destinations were selected randomly from the yellow pages directory. The idea was to study the situation where either the destination was or the source was a new place for the volunteers. The volunteers were only given the address of their destination. Apart from that, they were on their own. They had to plan the journey and solve the problems they faced all by themselves. experimenters accompanied them only as passive observers.

Pix ‘n Trix, the Visual Effects Studio of B R Films, was established in August 2007 at Film City, Mumbai. The studio specializes in VFX for films and television. During a one-month internship in May 2008, the work involved projects such as the Asian Paints Bhoothnath Lion advertisement, storyboard and concept development for films, Talisman storyboard layouts, and the corporate presentation B R Films: The Next Level. Responsibilities included coordinating artists, creating composites, developing storyboards, and designing the corporate presentation.

The project explores the concept of pleasure and how it works. The project explores the concept of pleasure, examining how individuals experience and understand it differently. and understood differently by individuals. It examines various sources of pleasure, including food, music, physical and emotional experiences, achievement, recognition, and other everyday activities. The project reflects on pleasure as a subjective human emotion that can be difficult to define universally, while also considering philosophical perspectives on pleasure, including Jeremy Bentham's ideas.

“Not The Best!” is an animated short film addressing the unsafe and erratic behaviour of BEST bus drivers in Mumbai. The film focuses on buses moving before passengers have safely boarded or alighted, often putting passengers at risk of falling or getting injured. It highlights how this behaviour affects different passengers, including elderly people, women, schoolchildren, and those carrying children or heavy bags, presenting a critical observation of everyday public transportation experiences.

Pottery is one of the oldest surviving crafts, traditionally used for cooking and storing water and later evolving into decorative and aesthetic objects through techniques such as glazing. The pottery-making process involves four main stages: preparing the clay, shaping, decorating and glazing, and firing. The three major types of pottery are earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain, each distinguished by its clay composition and firing temperature. Earthenware is relatively easy to work with and allows colourful glazing but is more prone to damage. Stoneware uses a heavier clay mixture and is fired at higher temperatures, resulting in greater strength. Porcelain, made primarily from fine white kaolin clay with feldspar and flint, is the finest and most delicate type.

Wildlife photography is a captivating genre that involves capturing images of animals and their natural habitats. It requires not only technical skills but also a deep understanding of wildlife behaviour and ecosystems. Lokesh Mosale is a renowned wildlife photographer who has made significant contributions to this field. Lokesh Mosale is a distinguished wildlife photographer from India, known for his stunning images that capture the essence of wildlife in their natural habitats. His passion for nature and animals inspired him to pursue photography as a means to connect with the wilderness and share its beauty with the world.

“POP” is an attempt to experiment with animation with music. I always thought that music was not my cup of tea. So why not try to understand it through a medium that I love the most—animation? “POP” is a simple story with different angles of view, where every character reflects a different emotional field due to their past experiences or current circumstances. The animation can be experienced in three different ways, each with a different music track. The experiment here is to see how the experience of the narrative is influenced by the music and also to highlight characters through specific associations with the music.

GO WILD – A Movie on Wildlife is an animated film based on experiences of wildlife photography across different forests. The project explores the beauty and serenity of wildlife and natural environments while highlighting concerns such as shrinking forest areas, declining wildlife populations, and irresponsible human behaviour towards nature. It presents wildlife not only as a subject of fascination but also as an area requiring greater awareness and conservation.

Ek Rupaiyah – An Animated Short on Abandoned Children is an animated short film centred on the everyday experiences of children living and begging on the streets of Mumbai. The film explores a simple encounter between a child and a passerby, highlighting how the same act can carry different meanings for the child and for society. The project is based on research into the lives and experiences of street children and documents the development of the concept, ideation, and final film.

The Visage—An Animation on Fear is an animated film exploring fear, anxiety, and the struggle to maintain individuality in a changing social and economic environment. The film uses the metaphor of a mask to represent the fear of becoming indistinguishable from the crowd. It explores concerns surrounding employment, loss of identity, and the pressure to conform, presenting fear as both a psychological experience and a response to wider social and economic circumstances. The project uses animation and visual metaphor to portray the internal tensions associated with identity, uncertainty, and belonging.

The famous house of animation is a full-series animation facility based in Mumbai. It came into existence in the year 1998. As an achievement, Famous contributes to 9 out of the 10 films being made in Bollywood. They do all kinds of special effects, from handling 2D animation to 3D animation to clay animation, stop motion, live action, and projects from start to end. Other than the Bollywood flick and other animation works, they even worked on short films and music videos to television serials and ad films. With access to the latest sound, video, and film technologies, they were able to set a standard in production values that persists to date. Up to date, it's fair to say that the famous house of animation has come of age and has the experience and capability to offer complete creative and production solutions, even for the largest of projects.

A Short Animation Movie on Emotion of Flowers is an animated film that explores the emotional life of flowers and the human tendency to overlook their living nature. The film presents flowers as fragile living beings that experience fear, pain and happiness, particularly when they are plucked, cut or cared for. It raises awareness about the short lifespan of flowers and encourages a more sensitive attitude towards nature, highlighting the importance of appreciating and preserving their beauty rather than treating them merely as decorative objects.

Reading articles in newspapers and magazines and cutting them out and preserving them is one of my favourite pastimes. One day, during this process, I came across a story about an umbrella. In the story, the writer had made the umbrella look like it was alive. It was moving about dancing and swinging. I really liked the thought of the writer. Somehow, I was very attracted to that story, and it became the inspiration for my P3 project. With the help of my guide, this began the process of taking this seed of an idea, developing it into a story, a script, and finally an animation film.

As a special project report, I have created a handwritten copy. It has been written on recycled paper embellished with self-pressed flowers and leaves (fallen flowers and leaves collected at Auroville). However, as this isn’t an acceptable format to be stored as a record for the library, I have got all the text typed as per the pages from the original and also included a few colour photos of the original report.

Production design is the visual art and craft of cinematic storytelling. If you see, a film is ultimately a visual medium; its visual material is almost like another actor, itself creating a mood and eliciting an emotional reaction from the audience. As settings are not merely backdrops for the action but symbolic extensions of the theme and characterizations, and real, isn’t it always best for the film? There is a need for a designer who will design a world with its own inner logic and truth by selecting the settings and style to visually tell the story. That is when the production designer comes into the picture. It is the production designer's responsibility to find the right visual and spatial elements that best convey the film’s theme and emotion.

One of the subjects that has always fascinated me is the fact of how we are living our lives today. I believe that humans are a very interesting subject. Our eccentric behaviour always has intrigued me. A recent incident that I experienced made me realise that we have become extremely materialistic. Materialism has gained the power to dictate our behaviour and also our attitude towards life. We have stopped respecting who we truly are. We have stopped believing that we have the power to change the situation around us. We have become slaves to material love, and we let the objects build an image of who we are. Knowingly or unknowingly, we are constantly taking the'materialistic path’ to build an image of ourselves to portray what we aspire to be, even though the potential lies within us to be who we want to be. I believe in this: that beyond all these silly consumer trinkets that build an outer artificial aura of who we are, deep within us lies all the qualities that can improve or solve all the difficulties that we face in our lives. All we need to do is believe in the magic within us.

Faces are often ignored, hiding their pain deep behind those talkative eyes that know so much, telling no lies. We look at a face and think how pretty it is, but do we ever see who is behind? My interest in knowing more people around me and the simple joy of looking at every face, amongst the ocean of unknown faces that we are surrounded with every day, which seems to talk a lot more than the words they speak, gets me to take this project. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that's true, imagine what the image of a face says. This is where it begins—a blank canvas, if you will—upon which the experiences of our lives are painted until the day we die. Each feature on the face relates to a part of your personality. The shape, size, and location of your features all have meaning. And those traits then tell the story of who you are. When we meet someone, we get the “first impression." Most people form their first impression of someone based on their intuition. This is because we are all observers to some extent. We occasionally make a mental note of a particular posture or gesture and wonder how it can have originated, but we seldom do anything about it. We say familiar phrases as "silly face, keen eyes, honest looks, and untrustworthy appearance."

This film celebrates dance. It is about a person who finds a way out of the agitation and anxieties brought on by worldly matters through the act of dancing: she dances away her anxieties. Dance gives her a sense of identity and freedom. This is a short 2D animation film exploring the process of abstraction in dance combined with music and colours yet following a narrative pattern.

Chitto jetha bhayashunyo (Where the mind is without fear) is one of the most inspiring poems by Rabindranath Tagore before India’s independence, where he talks of his views of how the newly awakened India should be as a free nation. And to think of it today! It’s a big question in front of us. This contrasting image is what the film brings forth. A short film in classical animation exploring the other side of the poem. The lawmakers are the lawbreakers. Terror has grasped people. The common people are afraid to speak up. Discrimination of all sorts still exists in society. The younger generations don’t give a damn on most matters. And an extremely disgusting habit that we have cultivated of staying indifferent to situations in society. These are a few pitfalls that I have tried to show against the poem so that one can make out what we are missing in being a truly free nation.

Mithila painting, also known as Madhubani painting, is a traditional form of visual art that originates from the Mithila region of Bihar in India. This unique style of art is well-known for its elaborate patterns, vibrant colour scheme, and cultural relevance. The art of mithila painting is indigenous to the region and has been done by women for centuries. It is believed to have originated during the time of the Ramayana, when King Janak commissioned artists to create paintings for his daughter Sita’s wedding.This art form has changed over the ages, but it has managed to hold onto its distinctive qualities and cultural origins.

I want to learn the 2D animation production process of feature film. So, I chose BIG Animation Studio for the summer internship programme due to its superior digital animation technical capabilities to produce feature lms. BIG Animation Studio is India’s one of the biggest animation studios in the animation industry.

This narrative is about the fantasy world of a little girl, Saru. She loves nature, flowers, butterflies, fireflies, the rainbow, the sun, the moon, and stars. It is about her dream, desires, and wish- fulfilment. Saru, the innocent little girl that she is, is unaware of the real harsh world and its reality. She lives in her own magical dream world, filled with what she loves—flowers, butterflies, fireflies, stars, the rainbow, and lots of smiles. This narrative is also about her perception of nature. To her, the moon is Chanda Mama, the sun is Suraj Chacha, and so on. They form the Santa Claus in her land. She thinks that the butterflies, stars, and others are the ones that create the magical flowers that fill her garden. Whereas, all of them are actually a creation of her happiness—her sweet magical smile. This film is visualised in the Madhubani painting style, the style of my community and fofebears. I grew up looking at these paintings in and around my environment.

This narrative is about my own problem of a speech disorder generated by my past experience of rejection. Sometimes I speak so fast and rapid that it’s difficult for a listener to understand. My words overlap, they come under pressure, and I speak as if I have to go somewhere urgently. My problem of the “pressure of speech” affects my life in many ways. It makes me incapable of communicating with others. I want to be free from this psychosis of a speech disorder. I want to speak my mind. Something struggles within my mind to come out. Some times when I am unable to communicate, I feel a suffocation and a severe pain in my throat, neck, mouth, jaw, and within my head. I am stuck in my past negative experiences. Also now I hesitate to speak because I respect others; I think they are perfect and have a bigger personality than me. I want to erase my past. I want to realise my self-worth and self-esteem. I want to love and care for myself. I try to heal my psychological problem through my creative expressive art therapy, i.e., animation therapy. It’s my way of realising my creative self-worth and experiencing a well-being within my mind.

Kanha is a breathtaking creation of nature. In the beautiful forest you look up, and the green canopy of the tall sal trees meets your eyes with tiny blue patches of the sky showing through the openings. As your eyes wander downwards, a flitting racket-tailed drongo, a black-headed oriole streaking by like a flash of gold, and the cry of a lesser serpent eagle catch your attention. On the ground, grasses and shrubs harbour, half-hidden from your view, chital, gaur, and sambar. Even if you do not see a tiger, probably a tiger has seen you as you drive through the forest. The emerald green meadows, valleys densely wooded with thick stands of sal, hill slopes covered with mixed forests of saja, bija, tendu, and bamboo, and the plateaux with grasslands scattered with stunted tree growth are the homes of the spectacular wildlife of Kanha.

A summer internship with a prominent media channel like Channel [V] can be a transformative experience, particularly under the mentorship of a notable professional such as Rafey Mahmood. Rafey Mahmood is an established media personality and a reputed professional in the industry, often recognised for his contributions to entertainment and media. Channel [V] is a renowned entertainment channel known for its vibrant content aimed primarily at the youth demographic. The channel has a rich history of producing popular music shows, youth-centric programmes, and reality TV shows that resonate with a diverse audience.

There was a group of close friends. Life was mostly fun for them. But sometimes a phase comes in everyone’s life when things start changing. The happy-go-lucky group was no more the same. They were in troubled times. Happiness and sorrow became frequent. No one actually knew whether they were happy or sad. They wanted to know what they wanted from life. Soon, they had a dream. A dream where the world was made of stars. Shining, glittering diamond-like stars. They were scattered everywhere. The whole scene looked like a fantasy. In the midst of the diamond jungle, there were special stars. In each one of them, sat a group member. Sitting in the stars, they were smiling at each other and saying, “Everything is fine; everything is alright." I was surprised by the fact that the imagination of our unconscious mind can be so meaningful that it can totally change the way we look at things. I knew that I had to explore dreams as the story line for my project.

The word patta is a Sanskrit word meaning canvas and chitra meaning picture. This art form is defined by its rich use of colour, its creative motifs and designs, and its portrayal of pure and simple themes. Hindu mythological themes revolve around this art form and mostly deal with stories of the Mahabharata, Ramayana, and legends concerning Radha and Krishna, Lord Jagannath, and other popular legends. But the most popular and believed to be the source, are the depictions of Sri Jagannath, Balabhadra, and Subhadra, the Divine Triad, or Sri Jagannath Patti. The chitrakaras do not strive for realism, but a definite expression of feeling and emotion is strongly visualised in their work with neat patterns and designs that call for closer observation for appreciation.

In India, most people believe in God. The rural people are more inclined towards social cultures, beliefs, and the words of overspoken babas and sadhus—so superstitious in nature. An Indian village would have its own realities, beliefs, traditions, and cultures from the past, but the ideas may be superstitious for the urban people. The content of superstitions and the metaphors we use change from culture to culture—but not the underlying shock and awe that yielded them in the first place. Man feels dwarfed in a Cosmos beyond his comprehension. He seeks meaning, direction, safety, and guidance... but after all, it needs knowledge and scientific ideas to justify what is what and the causes and remedies. The film will start with a rural village atmosphere where all are busy with their daily routines—showing their daily lives and more from a child’s perspective. Small children are simple but mysterious. The activities of the kids will be highlighted with village fairs, fun games, with roadside vendors, fruit plucking from trees, and adventures in school days. Film begins with a language of magic, superstition, and faith and transforms into the terror of a ghost, and these superstitions are later mocked by the revelation of a new super hero. Zokkomon powered by magic’s scientific ideas change the villager’s mind and thought from a very superstitious nature to the flavour of science. There is a dark irony throughout the story. Colours shine out like gems of hope in the misty greyness.

It’s natural for a human being to dream. Dreaming has fascinated humankind since the dawn of recorded. Dreaming is so vivid, so complex, and so emotional. Fulfilment of dreams has come to be the deciding criterion of one’s happiness. Being limitless, dreams present the ultimate fantasy land for one where all his wishes could come true. That a person’s character and attitude change along with the realisation of his dreams and success is not a totally unfamiliar story. It changes the entire outlook of the person; his friends change, his interests change, and his entire life changes. Often life presents a reminder of this in the form of misfortune.

Goddess Durga represents a united front of all divine forces against the negative forces of evil and wickedness. The gods in heaven decided to create an all-powerful being to kill the demon king Mahishasur, who was ready to attack them. At that very moment, a stream of lightning dazzled forth from Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesh, and it turned into a beautiful, magnificent woman with the hands. Then all the gods furnished her with their special weapons. The image of Durga, the eternal mother, destroying the demon, Mahishasur, is a symbol of the victory of good over evil.

I once met an auto driver who had a fascinating tale to share; on his way back to the depot to return his vehicle, a group of five to six people stopped him. They pulled him out of the rickshaw and asked him whether he is from Bihar or UP. But this guy was merrily chewing tobacco so he could not reply. Assuming that he is a “Marathi Manus,” the mob let him go. After finishing the story, smiling, the driver said, “Tab se hum kasam kha liye hai ki humesha masala khaate rahenge, pata nahi kab yahan se nikaal de. I was concerned about the fact that people are becoming intolerant, more insensitive towards each other. The feeling of hatred has increased. News papers, TV news, and our surroundings are full of incidents of rage and intolerance that have caused people to lose their lives. But why? What has happened to human beings? Why are we becoming so insensitive that we don’t even bother to stop for a person who is lying wounded on the road? I was looking for a topic for my project, and the story of the auto driver gave me one: "Intolerance." Tolerance is the appreciation of diversity and the ability to live and let others live. It is the ability to exercise a fair and objective attitude towards those whose opinions, practices, religion, nationality, and so on differ from ones’ own. Tolerance is not just agreeing with each other but rather showing respect for the essential humanity in every person.