Fisherwoman and Tuk Tuk
Short Film
When she discovers a pearl in the belly of a fish, a Konkani fisherwoman resigned to a mundane life of daily struggle, abandons her trade and indulges in her wildest fantasy. She buys herself a brightly colored rickshaw (“tuk tuk”) and starts to cruise at lightning speed through the winding roads of her coastal village, with her cats in tow. Finally released from her daily drudgery, ecstatic at her newly found sense of power and freedom, she is the talk of the town and her own greatest hero, when, suddenly, an accident threatens to thwart her indomitable spirit.
An exuberant, wild and joyous tale about a woman’s awakening of dormant desires, that celebrates the thrill of adventure and the triumph of dreaming big and pursuing even our most wacky, psychedelic fantasies against all odds. Soulfully told in loud color and trippy animation, the film has won India’s National Award for Animation
A STUDIO ORIGINAL
Studio Eeksaurus
YEAR
2016
DIRECTOR
Suresh Eriyat
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Nilima Eriyat
BEHIND THE SCENES
CREDITS
Story and Direction – Suresh Eriyat
Executive Producer – Nilima Eriyat
Music – Rajat Dholakia
Sound Design – Shalini Agarwal
Theme Song – Chetan Sashital
Sound Re-Recording Mixer – Subir Das
All Voices (Conceived, Designed and performed) – Chetan Sashital
Project Lead – Nikhil Joshi, Abhijit Budge
Styling and Design – Suresh Eriyat, Nikhil Joshi
Pre-production Design – Nikhil Joshi, Nivedita Goswami, Hitendra Singh, Shraddhha Matkar, Khayali Pandya
Character Modeling – Nikhil Joshi, Nivedita Goswami, Amar Patel, Keyur Patel, Khayali Pandaya, Aditya Raje
Background Modeling – Amar Patel, Keyur Patel, Aditya Raje
3D Animation team – Anjelo David, Abhijit Budge, Swapnil Patil, Anik Roy, Debajyoti Roychowdhury
Rigging – Hitendra Singh, Anik Roy
Prop Modeling – Nikhil Joshi, Nivedita Goswami, Amar Patel, Keyur Patel, Khayali Pandya, Aditya Raje
Lighting – Amar Patel, Devender Parmar
Rendering – Hitendra Singh, Aditya Raje, Devender Raje, Amar Patel
Lighting – Amar Patel, Devender Parmar
Shading, Texturing and Matte Painting – Khayali Pandya, Amar Patel, Keyur Patel, Devender Parmar, Ranjit Mondal
Production Co-ordinator – Divya Sangle, Himakshi Rawal, Sakshi Gaur
FX, Dynamics and Simulation – Nilesh Dhore, Keyur Patel, Anik Roy
Lead Compositors – Nilesh Dhore, Mohammad Azeem
Compositing Team – Vinod Shetty, D. Prakash, Mangesh Nalavade, Amit Kakrekar, Avirup Ghosh
Post Production Co-ordination – Jivan Gaikwad
Sound Studio Faculty – Aurom Post Sound
Voice Recordist – Anish Nair
Sound Design – Shalini Agarwal, Akash Chowdhary
SFX Recording – Shalini Agarwal, Mustak Shaik
Foley Artists – Gupta, Sajjan, Choudhury
Assistant Mixing – Jagdish Nachnekar
Additional Sound Mixing – Bibin Dev
Accounts – Chetan Varia, Vijay Desai
Technical Support – Praveen Parameswaran, Sarfaz Ansari, Krishna Israni, Hitendra Singh
Support – Mohsin Shaikh, Prashant Kamble, Sachin Mokal, Uttam Jethithore Special Thanks – Arun Rane, Rajib Mandal, Sunita Kathiwada, Anamika Baruah, Shailesh Chindarkar, Ramesh Jadhav, Sanjay Patkar, Paul Kokkat, Mehernosh Dastoor, Ranjit (Tony) Singh, Seema, Joel Negi, Jolly Jose, Cyrus Sasoori, Shreeya Dixit, Tintu K. Philip