Blue Mountain Blues: A jumbo tale in eight minutes

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By Prutha Chakraborty

20/03/2023

Sharanya Ramesh, one of India’s very few stop motion animators, has now used this art form to make a short film on man-animal coexistence.

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The film tells the story of how the indigenous Irula tribespeople of the Nilgiris crafted a waterhole for elephants so that all lifeforms in the area had enough water.

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The Biodiversity Collaborative is “committed to promoting biodiversity research and conservation to enhance human well-being,” Ramesh told South First.

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Stop motion “requires a lot of patience, and minute and delicate work and manipulation of your subject. And it’s a physically demanding art form.”

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Her big break was Thatha’s Secret — her first venture into independent filmmaking.

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Thatha’s Secret features bedtime stories told during camping by a loving grandfather. The eight-minute short did several rounds of international festivals.

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“I hope to do more commercials and short format content for some time, to help me experiment more and grow my craft.”

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