Animated Movies On Mythological Character Hanuman

In today’s blog we will consider animated movies on Mythological hero Hanuman.

Lord Hanuman is one of the central characters in the ancient epic Ramayana.

Hanuman is the son of wind-god Vayu and an ardent devotee of Lord Rama.

Apart from being a popular deity in Hinduism, Hanuman is also found in Jainism and Buddhism.

Hanuman is a legendary character in legends and arts found outside the Indian subcontinent such as Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Hanuman is a brave, heroic mythological character.

Let us look at the animated movies that are made on Hanuman till date.

Computer Generated Movies on Hanuman

Released in 2005 Hanuman is the first animated feature film directed by Kshitij Singh and produced by Percept Pictures and Silvertoons.

The animation of this film was created by Kakarakaya Pulsu, 2D animation was used in this film.

Hindi dialogue of the film is written by Milind Ukey, Sulekha Bajpai and Shanthanu Rode where as English dialogues are written by Rajiv Gopalakrishnan and Neerav Ghosh.

Actor Chiranjeevi gave voice for the Telugu version.

This movie depicted Hanuman’s life from birth and the narrator was actor Mukesh Khanna.

The story plot showed that Hanuman is naughty and used his powers to trouble the saints living in the nearby forest and when hungry he leapt to catch the sun thinking it was a fruit.

Lord Hanuman is the 11th Rudra avatar of Shiva and possessed supreme intelligence, and strength.

Blessed with divine powers Hanuman could overcome death and could transform his body to take the smallest form or attain the biggest form of life.

Once grown up Hanuman was reminded of his original purpose that is unconditional devotion to Lord Ram.

Hanuman helped Lord Ram and Laxman in their search for Sita.

With his super powers Hanuman burned the golden city Lanka and helped Lord Ram and Laxman to defeat Ravana.

Pleased with his devotion and love Lord Ram blessed Hanuman with the immortality.

The music of this film is composed by Tapas Relia and the film is edited by Huzefa Lokhandwala.

Sahara One Motion Pictures is the distributor of this film.

This film is India’s first major commercial family animated feature which collected Rs. 8.18 crores and was announced a Hit at the box office.

The next film after Hanuman is the Return of Hanuman released in December 2007.

Directed by Anurag Kashyap, it is the second project of Percept Picture Company.

The screenplay is written by Amit Babbar and Anurag Kashyap and starred Pinky Rajput.

The music of this film was composed by Tapas Relia.

Return of Hanuman is a children’s film and has been rated as an Educational Film by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) as it deals with the issue of global warming.

Like the previous one this movie is also about Lord Hanuman.

The plot of this film follows Hanuman who comes to Earth with a desire to play with village children.

Hanuman reincarnated as Maruti lands up at the village of Bajrangpur and saves a boy from being bullied by local hooligans.

Maruti uses a mace locket to return into Hanuman.

The story starts on how Rahu and Ketu came into existence followed by why man himself is the biggest evil or the impact of pollution leading to global warming.

Return of Hanuman combined the modern with the mythological to communicate the golden lesson of good prevails over evil.

A monster made of polythene and other non-biodegradable waste appears from a volcano and keeps on swallowing the villagers of Bajrangpur.

After struggling to stop the monster, Hanuman asked help from Lord Ram and defeats the monster.

At the end Hanuman leaves his family and friends of Bajrangpur.

Hanuman : Da’ Damdaar is directed by Ruchi Narain and released in 2017.

Produced by R.A.T Films, the storyline follows Hanuman.

Celebrity actors like Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon and Javed Akhtar gave the voice for this film.

It has colourful illustration of characters and backgrounds.

In this film Maruti prays to God to make him the bravest kid in the world.

God heads his prayer and leads Maruti into a series of jungle adventures.

Maruti’s experience and new friends leads him to metamorphose from a simple Bajrangi to Hunuman Da Damdaar.

Music of this film was composed by Sneha Khanwalkar and lyrics are by Abhishek Dubey.

The background music was given by Shruti Kumar-Jessica Weiss and Bupi- Tutul.

The album is released by T-Series.

Movie Hanuman Vs Mahiravana is released in 2018.

It is an Indian Mythological adventure 2D and 3D stereoscopic animated movie produced by Green Gold Animation Pvt. Ltd and distributed by Yash Raj Films.

The story is written by Narayanan Vaidyanathan and directed by Dr. Ezhil Vendan.

The film is about Hanuman and his attempts to free Lord Rama and Lakshmana from the clutches of evil wizard Mahiravana.

Mahiravana is the son of sage Vishrava and the brother of Ravana, the king of Lanka.

It mainly focuses on the tale of Hanuman and his biggest battle with Ravana’s youngest step-brother, the king of Patala Mahiravana.

The expert voice over helped to bring the characters to life.

The 3D animation and effects is of good standard each frame is intricate and beautifully designed.

The music and background score raises the viewing experience.

This Movie released across India in Hindi and Tamil on July 2018.

It was distributed by Yash Raj Films and running time is 1 hour 36 minutes.

With stunning visuals this film is a good entertaining piece for all age group.

In India Mythological heroes like Hanuman, Ganesha and Krishna helped to start the animation industry.

Mythology delivers ready-made storyline, well-defined and easy-to-recall characters that quickly click with the core audience.

Experiment with more themes needed to be done unlike West our animation films are not made of big budgets.

Hence we got a view of the animated movies on Hanuman that is made till date.

Whether it is superhero or mythological hero animation has aided to bring life in all imaginative characters.

Join our MAAC centre and add colour, texture and movement to any of the mythological heroes.

Best Five Animation Movies Of 2018

What fabulous Movies are being made today with computer animation!

Animated movies are not restricted to kids anymore, they have won the hearts of adults successfully.

Animation has become one of the important film Genre today.

Studios like Disney, Pixar, Dream Works are constantly delivering amazing animated films.

Animated Movies of 2018 are Ralph Breaks the Internet, Peter Rabbit, The Grinch, Incredibles 2, Smallfoot, Isle of Dog, Hotel Transylvania, Spider –Man: Into the spider Verse and the list goes on.

Let’s have a look on the Five-Best Animation Movies of the year 2018.

The Grinch is a Computer Animated Christmas Comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment, based on Dr. Seuss book ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas!’ (1957).

Directed by Yarrow Cheney and Scott Mosier, the storyline of the film follows the Grinch who plans to destroy Whoville’s Christmas celebration by stealing all the town’s decorations and gifts.

Grinch’s pet dog Max just wants him to be happy, Fred the large reindeer joins them and Cindy Lou Who represents innocent Joy.

The story moves between bright colourful town of Whoville and The Grinch’s cold huge mountain hole.

Filmmakers depended on the illustrations from the book to design houses of Whoville.

Its a colourful, beautifully designed animated film that captures the distinctive, whimsical look of the book.

‘The Grinch’ was made using Autodesk Maya.

It was created in France by Illumination Mac Guff, which is an Animated feature production Company.

It grossed over $422 million worldwide.

Incredibles 2 is an animated superhero film directed by Brad Bird, produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

Incredibles 2 is about Parr family Superheroes who try to return public’s trust in Superheroes while balancing their family life.

In the Parr family included Helen Parr known as the Elastigirl in the superworld, has the ability to stretch her body into many shapes and form. Bob Parr or Mr. Incredible possesses super strength.

Daughter Violet Parr who can become invisible. Dashiell Parr, the family’s troublemaker first son, who has superhuman speed and Jack-Jack Parr, the infant son, who has mixed bag of power.

A team of experienced Animators were involved in this film. Ralph Eggleston is the Production Designer of the film.

This film is a continuation of ‘The Incredibles’ made in 2004. As Pixar no longer using same system from the first movie, all the characters had to be created from scratch on the computer.

The Pixar Studio used physically-based human eye models for the characters, even the eyes are larger and more stylized than in real humans.

Incredibles 2’s urban background increased the need for graphics and set design.

His film is nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 76th Golden Globe Awards.

Ralph Breaks the Internet

Its a 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Directed by Rich Moore and Phil Johnston.

It is the continuation of the film ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ made in 2012 as well as Disney’s 57th Feature-Length Film.

The film shows how people interact online.

Here Ralph and Vanellope (voiced by John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman) decided to use Wi-Fi connection in Litwak’s shop to go the internet.

This film included highest number of characters, 434 individual characters with 6,752 variants.

Animators created endless buildings, signs, holograms and rendered them through the studio’s in-house rendering software Hyperion.

‘The balcony view of the city’ scene had over 100,000 individual elements.

The most tough part in the film was to bring life “BUZZTUBE”, a You Tube inspired website shaped like tall, cylindrical room piled top to bottom with video monitors, each playing a clip which had to be individually animated.

This film received Best Animation Feature nomination at the 76th Golden Globe Awards and 24th Critics’ Choice Awards.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider- Verse

This film is based on the Marvel Comics character Miles Morales or Spider-Man, produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation.

Miles Morales becomes one of many Spider-Men and they team up to save New York City from fictional super-villain Kingpin.

Around 140 Animators completed the animation for the film, the largest crew ever used by Sony Pictures Animation for a film.

This film combined computer animation with traditional hand-drawn comic book techniques.

Computer Generated Imagery animation is combined with ‘line work and painting and dots and all sorts of comic book techniques.

This is attained by artists taking rendered frames from the CGI animators and working with them in 2D with the motive making every frame of the film ‘look like a comic panel’.

Animation lacked the Motion Blur, and instead of using animation principles like ‘squash and stretch’ substitute version was used.

This film was praised for its animation, characters, story, voice acting, humour and soundtrack.

It got nomination as Best Animated Feature at 76th Golden Globe Awards.

Hotel Transylvania3: Summer Vacation is a animated comedy film by Sony Pictures. Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky.

Its about a Dracula (voice of Adam Sandler), the proprietor of a Hotel Transylvania, falling in love with a ship captain named Ericka Van Helsing.

Mavis the vampire is worried about her dad Dracula and she thinks that he needs a break and she books a monster cruise for Dracula and his buddies.

It had Characters like Frankenstein, Wayne the Werewolf, Murray the Mummy, green blobby moster, Griffin the Invisible Man and Vlad.

Subplots in the film, focuses on the goodness of marriage and family.

The most challenging work for the animation team was to create massive sea monster Kraken character and creating the water effects and the destruction.

The film is packed with creative visual gags and weird creatures.

Previous two Hotel Transylvania films are about Mavis’s and Johnny’s marriage and the birth of their kid.

The sparkling production design and vibrant colours, easy flowing plot and familiar characters made the children happy.

This film was premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 1018 and released in United States on July 2018.

Sony Pictures Imageworks animation supervisor Alan Hawkins and VFX supervisor Michael Ford made effort to translate traditional cartoony-ness to high-end CG to create unique animated style.

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