MAAC team’s film Dug Dugi wins Golden Cursor Award

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Mumbai, May 14, 2009

The students’ team from Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC) has won the Golden Cursor Award for Best Animation (Student) for its movie, Dug Dugi. The team won the coveted award out of total 650 entries from across India. The Golden Cursor Awards (GCA) was held in Mumbai and recognized the best of work in animation, visual affects and gaming across 26 different categories like Best Professional Film, Best Animated Feature, Best Comic Book, Best PC Game, among others. This acclaimed film was earlier a winner at the 24FPS Awards as well.

The six-member strong winning team from MAAC is upbeat with the achievement. But the winners -- Pallavi Lunia, Sandeep Saini, Logendra Singh Shekavat, Kapil Kalra, Hitesh Sen and Amit Mathur – think their journey in the animation world has just started. Says Pallavi Lunia, “We are really happy to have won the Golden Cursor Award and I owe it to the team effort we put in. Each and everyone in the team put in their best and we were able to come out with the final output. It took us over 2 months to finalise the concept. We came across many problems while we were in the production stage. The faculties at MAAC helped us a lot whenever we had trouble with our progress in the project. I am happy with the team effort we put in and pulled of the project”.

MAAC’s Chief Creative Officer Sanjiv Waerkar added “MAAC provides the platform for students to express themselves. Creativity and film making culture are demonstrated by the string of award winning films that have come from our talented and hardworking students from all over India over the past few years. There can be no better demonstration of their skills.”

The award-winning movie Dug Dugi is an adaptation of a poem that depicts life in India. The movie describes adverse conditions in which an Indian keeps fighting everyday and in the end he is left with nothing but a great feeling of sharing what little he has with everyone. The poem is narrated by a Monkey and his master Madari and brings out a clear message that any Indian will always live for today, not worrying about tomorrow. This happy go lucky attitude towards life makes him share whatever he has with people around him.

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