Indian History and Mythology


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Creator/Artist: Abhishek Soni

Category: Animation Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2017-2019

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Sumant Rao


Detailed Description

The Fall of Dwarka is the action saga from the life of the most worshipped Indian deity, Lord Krishna. Working on Indian history & mythology as a subject to study for my P3 has been a topic connected way back to my childhood, as we grew up watching Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayana, Shree Krishna, Mahabharata, Vikram Betal, etc. These series were not as advanced in terms of visual development, but they provided good moral ground. In the late 90s, Yugo Sako’s Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama aired, which made a big impact on the lives of rural kids, as the concepts, animation techniques and story treatment were quite unusual from what we had been watching regularly and inspired us with the possibility that we could give wonderful animated films with our Indian stories. As a part of this P3 project, I preferred to research the life of Krishna, as there are still many parts of his life that people are unaware of. The city of Dwarka is one of them. The city was built on command of Lord Krishna with land that emerged out of the sea (over the Gulf of Khambhat and near the coast of modern Dwarka at present). The ruins of the ancient city are today found submerged underwater, which brings out the fact that all of the stories and folk tales were not mere mythology but an actual history. There were a series of bad omens and curses cast on Krishna which led to the destruction of the Yadu clan and the death of Lord Krishna; thereafter, the entire city was flooded and submerged underwater.