No, the story in Animation Xpress (which reads like an uncritical press release) emphasizes that Bhargava is the WRITER of Maharaja, also referred to as the scripter. So I assume that he is not the artist. Bharavi is the head of BTales, and described as its founder/writer and animation director, so I assume that the artist is a BTales staff artist.
There is remarkably little information on the Internet about Kittu, Bhargava's earlier animation feature. Wikipedia says that it was released in 2006, is about 125 minutes long, and gives Bhargava's full name as Bhargava Kodavanti. There is one online article on a website for movies in the Telugu language that shows Kittu's poster, and gives a synopsis that makes clear that Kittu is a "monkey boy" and that this is an anthropomorphic animated movie. If it is only in Telugu, I do not imagine that it has been seen by many outside of the relatively-small Telugu-speaking area of India. Almost all of the Indian animated features covered on Flayrah have been in Hindi, the majority language.
No, the story in Animation Xpress (which reads like an uncritical press release) emphasizes that Bhargava is the WRITER of Maharaja, also referred to as the scripter. So I assume that he is not the artist. Bharavi is the head of BTales, and described as its founder/writer and animation director, so I assume that the artist is a BTales staff artist.
There is remarkably little information on the Internet about Kittu, Bhargava's earlier animation feature. Wikipedia says that it was released in 2006, is about 125 minutes long, and gives Bhargava's full name as Bhargava Kodavanti. There is one online article on a website for movies in the Telugu language that shows Kittu's poster, and gives a synopsis that makes clear that Kittu is a "monkey boy" and that this is an anthropomorphic animated movie. If it is only in Telugu, I do not imagine that it has been seen by many outside of the relatively-small Telugu-speaking area of India. Almost all of the Indian animated features covered on Flayrah have been in Hindi, the majority language.
http://telugutanam.blogspot.com/2006/01/kittu-first-telugu-2d-animated-film.html
Fred Patten