Chhota Bheem producer Green Gold Animation will co-produce the 3D musical comedy Escape to India, Variety reported from the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Escape to India, based on a novella by Marcelo Birmajer, is set in the 1940s and follows the adventures of a cow named Azadi who escapes from a slaughterhouse in Argentina. “An epic journey takes her across the Americas, where she crosses the Bering Strait into Russia, makes her way through Mongolia and China, and finally arrives in India, which her dying mother described to her as a paradise for cows,” Variety noted.
The film will be co-produced by Green Gold Animation, founded by Rajiv Chilaka, and Gaston Gorali of Argentina’s Mundoloco. Apart from Chhota Bheem, one of the most successful animated series in India, Green Gold has also created Krishna, Mighty Raju and the upcoming film Hanuman vs Mahanirvana.
Mundoloco CGI is “one of the biggest digital animation studios in Latin America”, Variety said.
Buddhism and Indian spirituality will feature in the movie, Gaston Gorali told Variety. “The idea of non-violence changing things in the world is something that India – the largest democracy in the world – has given to us, and we want the idea to be very present in the movie,” he told Variety. “We’re very far apart, India and Argentina, and you may think our cultures are totally different. However, beyond religion and tradition, we are both big dreamers and big survivors.”
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