Animation film on Sai Baba set to release in January

Mumbai: Delhi-based Shirdi Sai Baba Foundation is gearing up to release its animated movie `Shirdi Sai Baba` that focuses on spreading the message of love and brotherhood, in January 2012.

The foundation is run with objectives like spreading the teachings of Shirdi`s Sai Baba, setting up Sai temples and hospitals and organising programmes for child protection. "We are excited about releasing the animated movie on Sai Baba, an incarnation of God, teaching equality, brotherhood and love to the society. These animated stories and teachings of Sai Baba will help to implant brotherhood and love among children and elders," Shirdi Sai Baba Foundation chief founder and producer of the movie, Aushim Khetrapal said. He has rendered his voice for a few sequences in the film. The movie is a combination of mythology and technology and highlights Baba`s divine power and mystical charm that still generates thrill among the devotees. Produced by Orient Tradelink and conceived by the foundation, the film contains 17 chapters of Sai Satcharitra by Hemadpanth. Earlier, the foundation had come up with Shirdi Sai Baba Comic Book, 50,000 copies of which were sold within a month. PTI