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The Godawan Uses Blue Pottery to Tell Bustard Conservation Story
The Godawan is a short animated film about the Great Indian Bustard, a bird in serious danger.
It was made by animation director Suresh Eriyat.
The film uses stop-motion animation and Jaipur blue pottery.
More than 5,200 handmade ceramic pieces were used.
Its story follows one egg that has not hatched yet.
The film uses the fragile pottery to show how vulnerable the bird’s future is.
Female bustards lay only one egg each year.
Diageo India supported the conservation programme and helped fund the film’s production.
The film appeared on YouTube on October 4 during World Wildlife Week.
Animation director Suresh Eriyat’s short film The Godawan focuses on the endangered Great Indian Bustard.
The stop-motion film combines animation with Jaipur blue pottery and more than 5,200 handmade ceramic pieces.
Its story follows a single unhatched egg to convey the bird’s fragility; females lay just one egg a year.
Diageo India, whose whiskey brand shares the film’s title, supports the conservation programme and backed production.
Released on YouTube on October 4 for World Wildlife Week, the film features music by Rajat Dholakia, Nishant Gupta and Taufiq Qureshi.
- Who
- Animation director Suresh Eriyat, Studio Eeksaurus and 22Feet Creative Agency made The Godawan; Diageo India supported the conservation programme and backed the film.
- What
- A stop-motion short film about Great Indian Bustard conservation, made using Jaipur blue pottery and handmade ceramic pieces.
- Where
- Released on YouTube; the film uses Jaipur blue pottery.
- When
- Released on YouTube on October 4, during World Wildlife Week, which runs October 2–8.
- Why
- To tell the story of the endangered Great Indian Bustard and communicate its fragility and conservation efforts.
Key facts
- Film
- The Godawan
- Director
- Suresh Eriyat
- Bird featured
- Great Indian Bustard
- Ceramic pieces
- More than 5,200 handmade pieces
- Production period
- The ceramic pieces were worked on for at least eight months
- Release date
- October 4
- Music
- Original folk composition by Rajat Dholakia, sung by Nishant Gupta, with percussion by Taufiq Qureshi
Quotes
Official synopsis of The Godawan
Synopsis accompanying the film.
“The Godawan tells the story of the Great Indian Bustard through the perspective of a single unhatched egg. The bird is critically endangered, and with females laying just one egg a year, the film needed a visual language that could communicate what facts alone could not: fragility.”
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“Ceramic is delicate, unpredictable and, once shattered, impossible to return perfectly to its original state. For a film about a species whose future had itself become precarious, that quality became more than a practical challenge. It became the metaphor at the centre of the film.”
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