While
introducing YOMICS and his vision, Uday spoke about his passion
projct
“Comics,
or how we more aptly call them today, "Graphic Art", started almost 35,000 years
ago. No, I am not making this up. At that time in the area what is now Chauvet,
France, the people did not know, that what they were creating was the first
comic, but that’s what it pretty much was. I am referring to the prehistoric
cave paintings which are the oldest instances of man’s fascination with this
art.
“Comics
have been one of our oldest and most basic ways of expressing ourselves, and it
has been a fascination of mine from childhood right up till now.
“Graphic
Art as an industry has not seen much prominence in the world and even much less
here in India, yet when I look around myself, I can't help but notice that our
culture and everything that makes us Indian is steeped in color and imagery –
which is the very basis of Graphic Art. It is part of our customs and traditions
and even most of our religions are heavily dependent on that same color and
imagery.
“Having
so much of it around us in our culture, it is strange that we as a people have
not been able to adopt Graphic Art as a means of entertainment in a much bigger
way. Apart from that, I also believe that there is something very enjoyable and
entertaining about Graphic Art. It takes us into a world created by images,
eases us into its narrative through color, yet engages the mind just enough to
let us imagine it coming to life. It is
suspension of disbelief taken to an
all new level and what one gets out of it is a unique and portable way of
entertaining ourselves that we might have forgotten in the last 35,000 years or
so.
“My
endeavor is to bring this art and this form of entertainment back and use the
lure of our movies to help excite and entice the first lot of readers but that
will only be the beginning. For once you enter this world, I intend to take you
to new places and explore brand new characters and stories which I cannot do
through any other medium except this one.
“So
whether you are 10 or 80 there is no age that the fun needs to stop, there is no
age to stop believing in the fantastic and the unimaginable, there is no age
that should limit enjoyment of art of any kind.
“So for
the sake of a 35,000 year old art, take this journey with me and help me bring
the joy of comics back to you.
“On
behalf of Yash Raj Films, I would like to thank Abhishek (Bachchan) for taking
time out to launch the DHOOM Yomics and both Salman Khan and Rani Mukerji for
their wishes and kind
words on this occasion.”
