n young Indian animator has proved that it is possible to up there with the best in the world. Deshpande recently won the award for The Best Animated Short Subject at the 10th Annual Hollywood Film Festival. The cherry on the cake for Deshpande was winning the 'The Best Indie' award at the Florida Independents' Film Festival in Tampa.

Deshpande joined the Mumbai-based Future Thought Production, founded by Jay Zaveri two years back. Here, Deshpande made Haptic, a sci-fi satire animated short feature film. "When I joined Future Thought, we had the option to either start working on some episodic series. But the idea for the film worked better," says Deshpande. ... more