“For the first time, Pixar has two original films that will be released this year. The Good Dinosaur will follow Inside Out in November, and with it, a brand new short.
‘Sanjay’s Super Team’ will be the first Pixar film starring a character of color. Director Sanjay Patel drew on his childhood experiences to create the 7 minute short, which chronicles a Hindu prayer ritual with his father.
It’s also the first time religion is the subject in a Pixar film. The short concerns Sanjay daydreaming about the Hindu gods as ancient superheroes, not unlike Marvel’s The Avengers…
Patel is the third Asian American director at Pixar, joining Ronnie del Carmen, co director of Inside Out, and Pete Sohn, director of The Good Dinosaur. He was candid in describing the difficulties of embracing his Indian heritage as a boy and even into adulthood…”
I LOVE SANJAY PATELS WORK!!! I have one of his books, Ramayana Divine Loophole and it is impossibly beautiful
I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO SEE THIS AT ANNECY AT AN ADVANCE SCREENING and man it was good but then when Sanjay talked about it afterwards and the personal relevance of it to him and his father and an entire generation of people I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house and theN THEY MADE US WATCH IT AGAIN
IMAGINE A GIGANTIC CINEMA STUFFED FULL OF ANIMATION NERDS TRYING LIKE THEIR LIFE DEPENDED ON IT NOT TO OPENLY WEEP
“I always thought of him as like a beachcomber, a character that collected things because he didn’t understand what the world was before humanity left.” - Andrew Stanton on WALL•E
