KUALA LUMPUR: A Kuala-lumpur based Indian plans to direct the first ever 3-D film on the life of Lord Ganesh for which he has reportedly done research in the past three years.
“Lord Ganesh is so unique and has several stories associated with him that are not so well known,” said Sharad Sharan. Sharan, along with his script-writer wife Renu Sharan,has directed a string of award-winning soap operas for Indonesian television during his ten-year stint in Jakarta.
“Ganesh as an animated figure is a very interesting god with very unique artistic forms. I have never seen such a beautiful mythological form,” he said adding that the deity is every animator’s dream.
The filmmaker would use a high-tech Chennai studio, owned by Tamil Superstar Rajnikanth’s daughter for the film, which will be shot using a 32 to 50 camera set-up.
A team of experts including a PhD Scholar in Vedic Science (in Sanskrit) Dr Vyas, Ramchander Sadekar, Amjad Sheikh and veteran writer Brij Katyal will pen the film’s script, he said. The film will be made under Sharan’s Tarantella Pictures company that has a joint venture with Malaysian company Astro Shaw to produce six to eight feature films in two years.
The Sharans have just completed shooting Diva, a Malay-language film with a “Bollywood touch” in it. The movie has already been touted to be a blockbuster and will open in cinemas in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, India and Indonesia later this year.
