Karma


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Creator/Artist: Vaishnavi Bangar

Category: Animation Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2012-2014

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Video MP4

Supervisor: Prof. Sumant Rao


Detailed Description

“Don’t waste your time on revenge. Those who hurt you will eventually face their own karma”. This is a quote on karma by Buddha. Karma is an animation film inspired from the Mahisha Jataka tale depicted in Ajanta paintings. The story elaborates on the concept of Karma. Inspired from one the jataka tales i.e. Mahisha jataka. The film throws the light on the consequences of good and bad deeds. Research included studying the Ajanta paintings and reading jataka tales. The film is a story of a crow and her three chickens. Among those three, one is chicken is selfish, a bodhisattva buffalo and wicked monkey. The story revolves around them on their good and bad deeds. As my film also tell about karma, and it is about when you do bad or harm or harass someone for reason or no reason you have to face the consequences for that.