’Baahubali’ Animated Feature Director, Producer on Taking Indian Cinema Global and Bringing Indian Audiences to Animation

Director Ishan Shukla and producer Shobu Yarlagadda reflect on the film's visual ambitions as well as the Indian animation landscape

By Kambole Campbell

Kambole Campbell

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The “Baahubali” universe is one which has been continually transformative for mainstream Indian cinema and the latest entry, the animated feature “Baahubali: The Eternal War – Part 1,” might be on the verge of doing it again. 

A co-production between India’s Arka Mediaworks and France’s Alcyde, as well as Zaratan and Aniventure in the U.K., with animation led by Mumbai’s 88 Pictures, its heavily stylized take on the expansive world of the films by S.S. Rajamouli (“RRR”) presents for the filmmakers an opportunity for Indian animation. 

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