The movie was ready in 2010 but released only this Friday. This is because, like his protagonist, Chaudhuri too was waiting for the exact moment to hit the bullseye. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/may/arjun1.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 233px; " /> A still from Arjun: The Warrior Prince In a bid to cash in on the summer holidays with a relatively clutter-free weekend at the movies, Chaudhuri chose this date to release his film on the life of one of the greatest warriors in mythology &mdash; Arjun. While mythology has no dearth of heroes with a list of feats &mdash; one greater than the other &mdash; Chaudhuri says Arjun stands out. &ldquo;I wanted to make a big action movie on the biggest action hero and Arjun is the greatest of them. He is head and shoulders above the rest,&rdquo; he says. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/may/22E127638.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 295px; " /> Director Arnab Chaudhuri. Pic/ Santosh Nagwekar Arjun: The Warrior Prince explores the archer&rsquo;s coming of age. The film follows his journey from being a talented student to becoming a warrior. Chaudhuri says this transformation has seldom been seen on screen. And he would know. With a degree from the National Institute of Design and over 15 years of experience in television (he has worked at Channel [V] and launched Pogo), Chaudhuri has seen his fair share of animation to know how to hit the right note. However he was faced with one major obstacle &mdash; the sheer magnitude of the epic of Mahabharata. Arjun&rsquo;s story is only one aspect of the Mahabharata and fitting it all into a 90-minute film was the greatest stumbling block for the 40 year-old director. What helped was a rigorous production plan that kept things on track. Chaudhuri says, &ldquo;In animation, you have nothing to start with and then you have to build a believable world. We had to think about the placement and purpose of every leaf and every pebble. In animation, there is no room for mistakes.&rdquo; A summer release of an animation film ensures that those filling the multiplex seats are children. But Chaudhuri&rsquo;s film does not shy away from depicting the violence Arjun indulged in. Chaudhuri explains this bold choice. &ldquo;The film deals with his life as a warrior, so we have not stayed away from the violence involved. It was necessary to depict it. But we have given it context. It&rsquo;s not a children&rsquo;s comedy but is pretty grown up in the way it portrays Arjun&rsquo;s life as a warrior.&rdquo; And right there, Chaudhuri has very consciously broken a stereotype &mdash; animation is not all cutesy and cartoony. He says it is a medium, not a genre. Then why has Indian cinema not taken real advantage of this medium yet? Chaudhuri says, &ldquo;Our animation industry is not as old as that of the West. In the West, the animation industry is as old as the live-action one. So they have grown together and made progress.&rdquo; He believes that his film could be the one that propels the progress of animation because a movie of this scale has seldom been attempted in India.u00a0

The war at Kurukshetra may have lasted 18 days, but director Arnab Chaudhuri's animated film Arjun: The Warrior Prince was three years in the making

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