What type of animation has been used in Bhoothnath?
Different kinds. Like in one scene, a teacher draws a lion on the blackboard. When she starts talking about it to the students, the lion acts likewise. Amitabh Bachchan, who plays a bhoot, is in the room so he gives life to the lion. How different is clay animation from graphic animation? It’s like an apple and orange; you can’t compare. Clay animation has its own beauty. You can make a complete feature film with clay animation, and some people are die hard fans of that. Both the types of animation are time consuming. Why is it difficult? It’s difficult because the real lion has its own properties, a chalk lion has its own properties and the pen and paper have their own properties. To match all this is tough. What was the brief for the animation in Bhoothnath? According to the script, Amitabh comes hunting for this boy, Banku (played by Aman Siddique). He hunts from class to class, and then gives life to the lion. Then we made the storyboard around the brief. It’s a collaborative proce
