Karmachakra

Indian anime-influenced animated film

Bengali
Hindi

Karmachakra (transl. Wheel of Fate) also known as Karmachakra: Episode Zero is an anime-influenced original mystery drama Indian animated film produced by Studio Durga. Billed as the first independent Indian anime production,^[1] the project was first announced in 2017.^[2] Production was completed in 2020. Karmachakra: Episode Zero is planned to be the first of a series of three Karmachakra films.^[3]^[4]

A 20-minute pilot was released on YouTube in February 2020.^[5]

Premise

Set in urban Indian state West Bengal's capital city of Kolkata, an orphaned girl Ganga is embodied into finding her parents, her roots while coping up with her present situations. What starts out as a search for past begins digging up more sinister fragments of mysticism, psychology and cryptography. Battling the unanswered questions, Ganga is sworn to find the truth of her ordeal and events leading to her mystery, which might also reveal several webs of connections en route.

Cast

Swastika Mukherjee as Ganga
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty as Dr. Roy
Tanusree Shankar as Mita Di
Mir Afsar Ali as Arka
Santu Mukherjee as Professor Sid
Anik Dutta as Ghoshal
Parno Mittra as Meghna
Swaroopa Ghosh as Madhavi
Alaknanda Roy as Mrs. Roy
Shaantilal Mukherjee as Gautam
Barun Chanda as Gomes
Shamik Sinha as Ronnie
Rajorshi Basu as Rick^[6]

References

^ "Youngsters gear up to present a made-in-India anime - Times of India". The Times of India. 15 August 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
^ "Karmachakra, India's FIRST Anime Movie Will Release Soon". animemotivation.com. 14 July 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
^ @StudioDurga (29 November 2020). "Update for those that missed ✨" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
^ Sharma, Manas B. "INTERVIEW: Rajorshi Basu on Creating Studio Durga and the State of Anime in India". Crunchyroll. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
^ "A Delhi studio is making Indian anime films that look deliciously Japanese". Hindustan Times. 18 September 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
^ "আকাঙ্ক্ষা「Karmachakra : Episode Zero」ED「AKANKHA / Rajorshi Basu ft. Rupankar Bagchi, Tanisha, Disha」". Youtube. Studio Durga. 14 February 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2021.