Sanjay's Super Team (2015)

Directed by

Sanjay Patel

Genre

documentary film, family film, superhero film

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rated

G

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 273 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Indian boy is bored during his father's Hindu meditation and daydreams about the gods as superheroes. The short film is based on the director's own childhood experience of feeling caught between modern life and his family's traditions.

heartfeltwhimsicalpersonalimaginativetendernostalgicgentlefamily-oriented

What happens

Sanjay's Super Team is an animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Written and directed by Sanjay Patel, and based on his childhood, it premiered on June 15, 2015 at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, and accompanied the theatrical release of Pixar's The Good Dinosaur on November 25, 2015. Inspired by Patel's own childhood when he felt conflicted by the modern world and the Hindu traditions of his family, Sanjay's Super Team follows the daydream of a young Indian boy, bored with his father's religious meditation, who imagines Hindu gods as superheroes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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