Manick Sorcar's Animation at NANDAN
Theater, A Smashing Hit!
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"Excellent show" viewers
congratulate Sorcar |
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Sorcar's millennium
program held at the prestigious Nandan Theater of Calcutta (January
1 through 7, 2000) enjoyed a thumping success. His two-hour program
consisting of four of his award-winning
animation films ("Deepa & Rupa'
A Fairy Tale From India", "The
Sage & The Mouse", "Sniff
", and "The Woodcutter's
Daughter") and his latest animagic "Calcutta Forever
- A Laser Fantasy" proved to be the highlight of the World
Bengali Conference. The unique eight-minute laser
animation which captured the 310 year old cultural history
of the city mesmerized the viewers, and was recorded as the FIRST
LASER ANIMATION based on a theme in the history of India.
The show, which ran twice daily, was extended for five more days
to meet the great demand.
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| City's leading newspapers such as The Statesman,
Times of India, The Asian Age, The Business Times, The Telegraph,
Cine Advance, Ananda Bazar Patrika, Bartaman, Aajkaal, Protidin,
Ganashakti, Sanmarg etc. gave rave reviews and featured Sorcar
with special articles. So popular was the show that in addition
to the extension, it drew national news media such as ZEE TV,
Doordarshan, and Star TV and magazine such as
India Today and Illustrator to cover the news.
It was attended by several dignitaries of the ministry cabinet,
film stars, and also by the Chief Minster of the State of Meghalay
and his wife who were visiting the City. |
Excerpts from the media:
(For complete text, click on the respective newspaper link)
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| "Another Manick, another magic for
City of Joy......Sorcar's Laser Show - Calcutta Forever- is
the first animation based on a theme to be screened at Nandan,
which bags the honour of being the first Indian theatre to
do so" |
- The Telegraph, December 26, 1999
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Surrounded
by autograph seekers after the show. The show ran packed
house from January 1 through 7, 2000, twice daily |
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With wife Shikha
in front of the prestigious Nandan Theatre where the
show was held |
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"Fairy tales have never been told with such charm and simplicity.
Manick Sorcar's animation films delighted and moved film buffs in
the city. Inspired home productions, the viewer was transported
to the serenity of the illustrated page of long ago, when poems
like Gandho Bichar and the tale of the two sisters and the mouse
and the sage made Panchatantra and Aabol Taabol such islands of
treasure.
Long ago, when the turn of the page opened quiet village scenes
in the mind's eye and the sailing moon made one sick with longing,
scanning its whiteness for a glimpse of the 'chakra kata buri' (the
old woman at the spinning wheel). When the best story was always
heard and smelt and seen between the covers of a book.
Manick Sorcar's animation films were full of the same astonishment
and freshness of those years. The characterizations were at their
best. And the real characters arose wondrously out of the exquisite
illustration. And what kept it all so beautifully simple was Sorcar's
consummate skill with animation.
Sorcar who has also distinguished himself as a professor of electrical
engineering confesses to 'loving light'. And his passion was manifest
in the films." |
-The Statesman, January 26, 2000
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| "Sorcar scion adds magic to city with laser
fantasy. His father was an internationally acclaimed magician....If
"Indrajaal" is the trademark for P.C. Sorcar, Jr., it's
"Alojaal" for Manick Sorcar." |
-The Economic Times, December 28, 1999
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| "Manick Sorcar's magic of light at the World
Bengali Conference" |
-Cine Advance, December 31, 1999
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| "The central attraction of the day (January
1, 2000) at Nandan Theatre was the animation program of Manick Sorcar,
which was attended by an avalanche of young viewers" |
-Aajkaal, January 2, 2000
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| "Calcutta on Laser...it starts from 1690.
Job Charnock came, saw, and won - followed by a series of many happennings....those
who were disappointed with Lunetta's laser presentation at the World
Cup celebration , will be totally satisfied at Manick's show..."
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-Ananda Bazar Patrika, January 3, 2000
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| "Manick Sorcar has painted Calcutta with
the brushes of light" |
-Ganashakti, December 27, 1999
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| "Magic Moments: Manick Sorcar casts a spell
on Calcutta! This Sorcar works his own magic. When Calcuttans heard
that legendary magician P.C. Sorcar's son Manick was putting up
a show - his first in the city - last week, many expected the typical
tricks. What they got instead was a laser display packing 310 years
of the city's history into eight minutes and some short, award-winning
animation films by the family's very own computer wizard."
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-India Today, January 17 issue, 2000
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| "Manick Sorcar's laser magic stuns the city
of Calcutta..." |
-ZEE TV, January 7, 2000
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| "...The sheer virtuosity of the finished
product (laser animation) is so impressive, that when watching the
swift whirling of of Sorcar's laser animation, the viewer forgets
the painstaking months of computer programming, research, sketching,
and technical organization that are behind Sorcar's magic"
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-The Statesman, December 23, 1999
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| "Manick Is An Extraordinary Talent....Today
when we see American or British cartoons on TV they only entertain
us for the period we watch them; we forget what we saw as soon as
they are over. Each of Manick's animation leaves an impression -
it keeps us thinking even long after it is over...." |
-Chandi Lahiri, (noted cartoonist of India,
in
Songbad Ekhan Jemon, January 2000 issue,
p.70)
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| "...the Denver-based eldest son of the legendary
magician P.C. Sorcar has kept the torch burning, albeit in a different
light. Through his award-winning animation magic, he has achieved
a marriage of the family art and science..." |
-Sudeshna Banerjee in 'Folksy and Futuristic'
- profile on Manick Sorcar.
The Asian Age, March 19, 2000
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| "...Out of all the programmes that were
held for the entire Biswa Banga Sammelan (World Bengali Conference),
only Manick Sorcar's animation show at Nandan drew tremendous interest
of the public, and they emerged with full satisfaction after seeing
it". |
-Manorama magazine,
Feb-Mar issue, 2000, p.66
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| "Sorcar's 'animagic' conjures up new tricks.
With his grooming in the enigmatic world of magic, sorcery and illusive
stage performances in the country's best known magician family,
Manick Sorcar's peers expected him only to further the 'abracadabra'
legend. But the eldest son of the legendary P C Sorcar had a trick
of his own conjured up at the back of his mind ever since he took
to painting his father's mammoth sets -- a trick he calls 'animagic'.
With a heady cocktail of his father's unforgettable sleight and
cutting edge laser animation, Sorcar has set a trend for this parallel
art form, which took the western world by a storm and was introduced
in India last winter." |
-The Times of India,
'Entertainment' Section, Thursday, March 9, 2000
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| "Reaching Out To Children: Manick Sorcar,
eldest son of the famous PC Sorcar, creates magic with different
raw materials - laser technology and computer wizardry. And his
animation films have won some very prestigious awards....A 'Manick'
in the family of 'PC' Sorcars clearly indicates that the great father's
eldest son didn't want to capitalise on the family name" |
- The Statesman, (Impression
Section), Calcutta, India, April 23, 2000, p.4
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