Tokri – A film by Eriyat Suresh
Tokri is a touching story about the relationship between a father and his daughter. A clumsy accident leads a young girl through the streets of Mumbai in the hopes of fixing things.
Crédits
Story and Direction: Suresh Eriyat
Producer: Nilima Eriyat
Director of Photography: Srinivas Reddy
Music Director: Rajat Dholakia
Sound Design: Jayesh Dhakan
Animation Production: Studio Eeksaurus
Storyboard: Ritvik Roy, Mukund Bhalegare, Arun Rane, Suresh Eriyat
Character Design: Nikhil Joshi, Mukund Bhalegare, Arun Rane, Amey Dhamnaskar, Pravin Kadam
Animation: Mukund Bhalegare, Adam Wyrwas, Sanjay Patkar, Swati Agarwal
Art Direction: Sandeep Meher, Krishna Kedar, Sandeep Shelar, Ashok Lokare, Bhaskar Shindey
Character Modelling: Mukund Bhalegare, Sanjay Patkar, Shailesh Chindarkar, Ramesh Jhadav, Vishal Mhatre
Props Design: Sandeep Meher, Bhaskar Shinde, Krishna Kedar, Sanjay Patkar, Shailesh Chin- darkar, Ramesh Jhadav, Vishal Mhatre, Amey Dhamnaskar, Alpita Parkar
Colourist: Michele Ricossa
Grading facility: Prime Focus- Mumbai
Prop Lighting: Sanjay Patkar
Layout Exploration: Rupali Gatti
Exterior shoot coordination: V.S Bargav
Post Production
VFX Supervisor: Nilesh A. Dhore
Compositing Team: Shakti Mehra, Priyansh Gupta
Roto Paint: Studio V Sync, Amey Dhamanaskar
Title design: Nijin Nazeem
Title Animation: Priyansh Gupta
Post Production Coordinator: Jivan Gaikawad, Rohit Mokashi, Punya Krishnan
Sound Studio: Ajivansh Studio, Brahmanand, Futureworks Media Ltd.
Sound Re-recording: Rhitwik Raj Pathak (Futureworks Media Ltd.)
SFX Editor: Debraj, Biswal
Violin:Manas Kumar
Banjo: Rashid Khan
Additional vocals: Ananya Eriyat, Suresh Eriyat
Documentation and editing: Tintu K Philip, Bargav Sridar
Accounts: Chetan Varia, Vijay Desai
Technical Support: Praveen Parameswaran
Awards
65th National Film Awards – Best Animation Film 2018
25th Krok Film Festival – Official Selection – 2018
Borroego Springs Film Festival – Best Animation Film – 2018
19th Crossroads Film Festival – Best Animation Film – 2018
Moscow Shorts April 2018 – Best Animation Short Film – 2018
Tokyo Anime Awards (TAFF) 2018 – Official Selection
Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) – Best Animation Film (National competition category)
Animation Studio Festival – Best Stop Motion Award
PSIAF Palm Springs International Animation Festival -2018 – Best Stop Motion Animation
Short to The Point – Best Animation Short Film – 2017
19th Digicon6 Asia Awards – 2017
Long Island International Film Expo (LIIFE) – Best Animation – 2017
Acharya Tulsi Short Film Festival – Winner Best Animation – 2017
Mexico International Film Festival – Best Animation Film – 2017
12th Athens Animfest -2017 – 3rd Vrissilia Award at The Athens Animfest
Ficci Baf (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) 2017 – Official Selection
8th StopTrik IFF (International Stop Motion Competition) Official Selection – 2018
42nd Hong Kong International Film Festival – Official Selection – 2018
Ojai Film Festival – Official Selection – 2018
International Short Film Festival Kolkata – Official Selection – 2018
Supertoon Animation Film Festival 2017 – Official Selection – Best Short Animation for Children
16 Jaipur International Film Festivals – In Jaipur 2017 – Winner Best Animation
Production notes
The idea for the story of Tokri came to Suresh from an incident that happened in his life. A little girl walked up to him one day at a signal trying to sell him some baskets. In Mumbai, one often finds beggars at traffic signals, and most of them are usually children. Suresh did not think much of it and shooed her away. As he drove off, he was hit with guilt, wondering what circumstance made the little girl sell baskets, and what if his brashness had done little but drag her situation for longer. He was perhaps her umpteenth attempt at selling it. There began his inspiration for the story.
Clay animation is an art that gives life to inanimate objects
Suresh wished to revive the popularity of clay animation through this film. Although clay animation is known to be a painstaking process that is both time consuming and tedious, it is an art that gives life to inanimate objects, bringing with it an energy on screen that shines through, one frame at a time. The project thus began with an enthusiastic group of young artists who had never worked on stop-motion of this scale before, and had never anticipated that it would eventually take 8 years to complete.
Biography
For nearly two decades, Suresh has pioneered the art of animation on Indian screens. After graduating from National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad in 1997, Suresh established Famous House of Animation, where he created unforgettable animated commercials, short films, music videos with many premieres. In 2009, he founded Studio Eeksaurus in partnership with Nilima Eriyat.
Suresh’s portfolio
More than 400 films have earned him more than 100 national and international awards, including the prestigious Annecy Cristal festival for his film Fateline in 2015, a first in India. Her internal projects Tokri and Fisherwoman and Tuk-Tuk both won the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Animated Feature.
Suresh regularly attends seminars and conferences to share his greater vision of the Indian animated film industry.