EFX
Prasad, CFSI and Bhargava Pictures win big at 54th National Awards
By
MRIGANK DHANIWALA and ANKITA SHAH
(11
June 2008 10:30 pm)
The
54th National Film Awards of The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,
Government of India, were announced on June 10, 2008. The award
for the Best Special Effects has been won by Chennai based EFX Prasad
Corporation for its cutting edge work in Rakesh Roshan’s Krrish.
Kittu, a 2D animated feature in Telugu won the award for
the Best Animation Film (Feature Film Category) while Meren Imchen’s
Nokpokliba, produced by Children’s Film Society-India, won
the award for the Best Animation Film in the non-feature film category.
“This
is our seventh award. Receiving an award from the President of India
in the Rashtrapati Bhavan is a great honour. It is a salute to the
entire EFX team that worked so hard on this film,” remarked EFX’s
Corporate Communications Manager C Vijay Shekar.
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The
jury, in a citation, lauded EFX Prasad for its “impressive effects
and technical finesse that enhances the magical quality of the film”.
The award will comprise of a Rajat Kamal and cash prize of Rs 50,000.
Produced
and directed by Rakesh Roshan, Krrish has more than a thousand
VFX shots spanning about 90-minutes of screen time. Craig Mumma
and Marc Kolbe, who did the VFX for Koi Mil Gaya supervised
the VFX for Krrish. Around 80 artists worked on the visual
effects, which took almost six months to complete.
Talking
to AnimationXpress.com, EFX Prasad Executive Producer
of VFX, Kilari Hima Kumar said, “It was a team effort, which involved
very high-end 3D modeling and animation, including whole body scans.
A lot of 3D models of cars, bikes, helicopter, birds and animals
were created and animated to match live-action footage. Complicated
wire removals and compositing work was minutely executed and so
were critical special effects that add intensity to images and action
shots. A whole futuristic 3D set was designed and implemented by
the team at EFX Prasad. The fire sequences were the most challenging
as they was shot live, and then composited,”
Bhargava
Pictures’ Kittu, touted to be the first animated film in
Telugu is produced by K Bhargava, directed by B Satya and animated
by Kodavanti Bharaj. All three won the Swarna Kamal and cash prize
of Rs one lakh each.
Kittu
is a 120-minute long 2D animation film about the adventures of a
naughty and careless kid monkey in a jungle.
Produced
by the Children’s Film Society, India (CFSI) Nokpokliba,
a 35mm, 8.5 minute Hindi film directed and animated by Meren Imchen,
won the the award for the Best Animation Film in the non-feature
film category. Both CFSI and Meren Imchen will receive Rajat Kamal
and a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 each. The story of Nokpokliba is
about a magician who brings justice to the people through his magic
and is based on folklore from Nagaland.
Added
Imchen, “I’m very happy and this award was really unexpected. I
feel very privileged and hope that I get more opportunities to make
stories based on Nagaland. Many folk tales are passed on through
word of mouth and are not documented. This tradition no longer exists,
and hence I felt the need to document them thorough animation for
children.”
The
jury for the awards included Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Rahul Dholakia,
P Sheshadri, Ratnottama Sengupta, Shekhar Das among others.
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