CHENNAI: Clad in a white and yellow kurta, Prachi Saathi narrates the story of The Golden Deer in Ramayana. Because the 11-year-old confidently speaks to the digicam, animated characters deliver the story to life. The four-minute efficiency that performs out on YouTube is a part of ‘Kutty Kahani – Everlasting Tales, Younger Storytellers’ – a collection of brief movies, which has kids from the world over narrating tales from India.
“As adults, now we have typically been involved about younger India’s disconnect with the nation’s civilisational roots. With dad and mom busy, youngsters are sometimes hooked to cartoons and faculty training not often supplies any holistic studying of any of India’s cultural ethos,” says dancer, choreographer and humanities entrepreneur Ananda Shankar Jayant, founding father of Natayrambha, a Bharatanatyam follow app and digital platform.
“There’s a small enduring stream that carries forth cultural traditions – a data transmission that occurs, through oral storytelling in households and additional studying from artwork lecturers and gurus,” says Ananda. “Natyarambha wished to deliver to the fore how a baby can be taught values and life classes by tales.” Conceptualised in October and the primary video was launched on November 20. “We wished to showcase the potential for a easy and digitally enabled manner of sharing content material and in addition spotlight why arts training is a necessity for a civilisation to have roots and but attain to the sky,” says Ananda.
The storytellers are aged six to 13 and from throughout India in addition to Malaysia, UK, and US. The content material of the movies is usually primarily based on what the kid needs to say or what he/she already is aware of. An in depth mail concerning the size of the video – 3.5 to 4 minutes — backdrops, mild, angles and closeups had been despatched to oldsters/lecturers who shot the movies on telephones or house cameras after working with the youngsters to determine the content material and presentation. “My daughter research in Isha Dwelling College, Coimbatore, which provides a variety of significance to Indic data and the puranas, so she selected the story of the golden deer. I helped her set it up and shoot the video,” says Prachi, Pari’s mom.
The uncooked recordsdata are edited by Vinay Datta in Bengaluru and the animation and video packaging executed by Hyderabad-based Gunjan Ashtaputre. “I watch the youngsters’s performances after which create the visible storyboard, with enjoyable drawings,” he says.
Ananda, has roped in Narthaki.com because the digital associate. “We shall be posting movies until December 31, when now we have a grand finale. The movies could be seen Natayrambha’s YouTube channel, FB and Instagram accounts and on Narthaki’s web site and social media handles.
“As adults, now we have typically been involved about younger India’s disconnect with the nation’s civilisational roots. With dad and mom busy, youngsters are sometimes hooked to cartoons and faculty training not often supplies any holistic studying of any of India’s cultural ethos,” says dancer, choreographer and humanities entrepreneur Ananda Shankar Jayant, founding father of Natayrambha, a Bharatanatyam follow app and digital platform.
“There’s a small enduring stream that carries forth cultural traditions – a data transmission that occurs, through oral storytelling in households and additional studying from artwork lecturers and gurus,” says Ananda. “Natyarambha wished to deliver to the fore how a baby can be taught values and life classes by tales.” Conceptualised in October and the primary video was launched on November 20. “We wished to showcase the potential for a easy and digitally enabled manner of sharing content material and in addition spotlight why arts training is a necessity for a civilisation to have roots and but attain to the sky,” says Ananda.
The storytellers are aged six to 13 and from throughout India in addition to Malaysia, UK, and US. The content material of the movies is usually primarily based on what the kid needs to say or what he/she already is aware of. An in depth mail concerning the size of the video – 3.5 to 4 minutes — backdrops, mild, angles and closeups had been despatched to oldsters/lecturers who shot the movies on telephones or house cameras after working with the youngsters to determine the content material and presentation. “My daughter research in Isha Dwelling College, Coimbatore, which provides a variety of significance to Indic data and the puranas, so she selected the story of the golden deer. I helped her set it up and shoot the video,” says Prachi, Pari’s mom.
The uncooked recordsdata are edited by Vinay Datta in Bengaluru and the animation and video packaging executed by Hyderabad-based Gunjan Ashtaputre. “I watch the youngsters’s performances after which create the visible storyboard, with enjoyable drawings,” he says.
Ananda, has roped in Narthaki.com because the digital associate. “We shall be posting movies until December 31, when now we have a grand finale. The movies could be seen Natayrambha’s YouTube channel, FB and Instagram accounts and on Narthaki’s web site and social media handles.
