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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (3260)11/22/1998 2:09:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 12475
 
Creative at heart-Meet Uttam Kumar,dropout.

Creative at heart.

Uttam Kumar, a school dropout,runs an animation academy, the only one of its kind in India.
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....'Animation was perhaps the last thing on Uttam's mind when his parents pulled him out of the village school in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh. They could only afford to educate Uttam's brother, who went on to do his PhD. Uttam decided to give shape to the artist in him and left for Chennai to try his luck in film publicity. But the language and the people were alien; he soon landed in Hyderabad and got a job as an artist. The Rs 270 he earned was barely enough to buy colour and art material but he carried on until in the early 80s Andhra Bhoomi, a Telugu daily, carried his painting of Lord Ganesha on the cover of its Sunday pullout......

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