‘Yeh anek kya hai, didi?’ is a line that the generation that was fed on Doordarshan in India might be able to relate to. Recalling the voice of five-year-old Sadhna Sargam: the didi answers, ‘bahut saare’ — in the Ek Anek aur Ekta animation, possibly the third animated film in the country. One wonders what happened to India’s proliferation in original animation like many other artistic endeavours. The probe in this direction gains a greater urgency when one comes upon the fact during our background check that the film had even won a National Award in 1974.

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