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MUMBAI: India's first stereoscopic 3D animated film based on the popular Tinkle Toon Suppandi is set to invade the silver screen.
MUMBAI: Suppandi, the village simpleton from Tinkle comics, will soon be seen on the silver screen. Publishers of the 28-year old comic series, ACK Media, are producing a stereoscopic 3D animation film with Suppandi as the protagonist.
ACK Media today announced their film strategy and a new studio venture to make India’s first stereoscopic animated 3d film based on popular tinkle toon ‘Suppandi’. The 85 min feature film would be made in Hindi and launched in November 2010.
'Mythology is the new cool,’ says the market as legends are retold and re-packaged as online games, comics and movies to entice the young.
There aren’t many of us who don’t have fond memories of Amar Chitra Katha’s comics. The lucidly told and beautifully illustrated stories drew the best from Indian mythology and folklore, with a good mix of original tales. ACK characters like Suppandi, Shikari Shambhu and Tantri the Mantri are as familiar as tales from the Mahabharata and the Ramayana to kids in India. It’s a small wonder then, that the pioneering publishing house, after dabbling in comics and mobile games, is the first in the country to launch an online role playing game (RPG)—Legend of Katha.
Monday, 16th September, 2009: ACK Media launches The ideas Box to create a new business model in TV and film content production. The Ideas Box is a content creation and activation company for ‘Kids & families’. The two founding partners of this new venture – Anil Sanjivan and Sudipta Dhruva both have long experience in developing content strategies that connect with kids. The new company will specialize on fiction and non-fiction shows, large-scale school contact programs, and films that leverage ACK Mediabrands like Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle and Karadi Tales. It will also develop new shows and characters that can be distributed through broadcast as well as other ACK Media platforms like comics, DVDs, and online services.
MUMBAI: In its quest to create a new business model in TV and film content production, ACK Media has rolled out 'The Ideas Box' a content creation and activation company for kids and families.
ACK Media, the brand under which Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle and Karadi Tales exist, has launched The Ideas Box. This is a new business model in TV and film content production. It is a content creation and activation company for "kids and families".
Amar Chitra Katha launches a free multiplayer online game that allows you to choose avatars, fight evil invaders and custom-make an end, all in an attempt to save the world
Samir Patil, a former McKinsey associate partner, returned from New York a few years ago to launch India’s first entirely child-focused media group.
Like many Indians who came of age in the 1980s, Samir Patil grew up on Amar Chitra Katha comic books. Through fables, religious parables and biographies of historical figures, they introduced him to the great, and lesser-known, stories of India in a didactic format meant for a young audiences.
MUMBAI, India — Like many Indians who came of age in the 1980s, Samir Patil grew up on the comic books published by Amar Chitra Katha. Made up of Indian-style Aesop’s fables, religious parables and biographies of historical figures, they taught him about the great, and lesser-known, stories of India in a didactic format meant for young audiences.
ACK Media with iRemedi Corp announces the launch of Amar Chitra Katha, a collection of illustrated classics that retell the enchanting stories about Indian Heroes on iPhone and iPods for the International market.
