Studio Durga: India's First Anime Studio
Anime is a beloved art form that touches people from all over the world. The anime fanbase is completely global now. As a result, it is no surprise that other countries would be willing to create anime of their own, such as China and South Korea.
Studio Durga is in one of these countries, being India's very first anime studio. With one film project under their belt thus far, this anime studio is giving Indian animation fresh representation and proving that India has a lot to offer in the form of hand-drawn animation.
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Studio Durga was founded in 2017 and is based in New Delhi, India. The studio was created to produce animation in the style of anime but without the need for international collaboration. Their target audience is young adults and teenagers. The studio was established after anime bloomed in popularity amongst Indian youth, and thus an idea for an anime set in India (named Karmachakra: Episode Zero) was set in motion. There was then a need for the story to be animated in anime style, and so Studio Durga was consequently formed.
Studio Durga was founded by Rajorshi Basu. He is the director, writer, and producer of Karmachakra. He is one of four animators at the studio, but he is not solely concentrated on animation as music and film production was his initial field of study as a graduate of the Berklee College of Music (which he attended on scholarship).
Karmachakra, which translates to «a cycle of action and reaction», is a mystery drama that follows a young orphaned girl trying to unravel the truth about herself and her family. It is entirely set in a fictional version of India. The inspiration for this film stems from Hindu mythology,
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