Animated Realities in India, Documenting Using Documentary Animation – An Analysis

The animation is an expressive medium that can do a ll the genres in its own unique style that live acti on can do (Brad Bird, 2015). Broadly speaking, animation operate s in two contexts fiction and nonfiction. Known for its massive outsourcing of animation projects, India also owns a gigantic amount of indigenous animation production . Though fictional animation based on the animator's imagina tion accounts for huge contribution to the industry , nonfiction animation, based on reality, is also able to find s ome space within the industry. This paper attempts t o analyze the trajectory of nonfiction animation employed in the context of Indian documentary films. The nonfiction animation is mostly used for documentary purposes and the Indian documentarists have started using the animation fo r the in-depth depiction of their arguments. The methodological ap proach of the study involves the analysis of a few I ndian documentaries that used animation in one way or the other as a narrative strategy followed by the insigh ts made by the documentarists in context to the animation used.