![]() ![]() Check out images from the book online here. Characters have enormous eyes and distinctive silhouettes. The stylized art uses decorative patterns against bold shapes in bright, high-contrast colours, like blue next to orange, purple against yellow. I know, gross, but hey, demons have hearts as well, even if they want to eat everyone else's most of the time." "One day a demon named Soorpanaka, who happened to be Ravana's sister, spotted Rama and fell in love with him. Patel has an engaging, informal storytelling style that gives this a totally modern feel: Rama is the hero who eventually, with the help of bears and flying monkeys, defeats Ravana (who has been holding Rama's wife Sita hostage). Vishnu reincarnates himself as a human, Rama, who happens to have blue skin, just like Vishnu. Lord Vishnu points out that there's a loophole in Ravana's special powers, which is that he can be defeated by humans or animals. Ravana, a demon with ten heads, is taking over the universe and the gods are powerless to stop this cosmic bully. The presentation is fun and easily digestible, yet the story's majestic sweep and concepts of idealism are retained. Instead of a thousand pages, Patel uses only about 150. ![]() In the introduction, he calls it "epic mythology without all the paper cuts." Each two-page spread of eye-popping artwork is accompanied by a paragraph of text. ![]() Animator and storyboard artist Sanjay Patel has condensed the sacred Sanskrit tale of Ramayana into a gorgeous illustrated version. ![]()
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