I have been reading lately about the growing Indian animation industry so I was pleased that NYICFF was going to give me an opportunity to sample a feature film.

Evil king Kans works the people of the land to the bone to do his bidding, he takes what he wants and kills those that oppose him. His one soft spot is his cousin but when it is prophesied that she will give birth to a son who will be the ruin of Kans, Kans imprisons her and her new husband indefinitely and kills their child after each new birth. But one day the God Krishna appears to the couple and is reborn in their newborn son. Krishna helps them exchange the child with one in a neighboring village before Kans can be alerted to the birth.

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