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This paper examines how Indian animated series and films reconstruct older cultural and narrative forms by translating their content into a new register. Close analysis of televisual series such as Chhota Bheem, Roll No. 21, and Kisna shows animated narratives increasingly adopting more folkloristic structures, character types, and mythic plots, while absorbing contemporary concerns, suggesting modern animations act as “digitales” avatars of folktales.","From Folktales to ‘Digitales’:  \nA Comparative Analysis of Folktales and Indian Animated Series in the  \n21st century  \nTanvi Sharma1  \nAbstract:  \nThe rapid transformations taking place in the contemporary India have changed the lifestyles of people in such a manner that technology has become an integral part of our day-to-day activities. In this paper I study how animation series and films produced in India have become an important medium that help reconstruct the older cultural and narrative forms by assimilating their contents into a new register. I explore how recently produced animated series transmit, transform and reinvent ancient Indian mythological and folk stories and characters. Through an in depth analysis of televisual series such as Chhota Bheem, Roll No. 21, Kisna and others I argue that a steady movement towards more folkloristic forms of narration, plot structures and character types become discernible as the storylines develop and become more diverse to encompass contemporary concerns into the fold of animation. It may be claimed that owing to multiple lines of continuities that can be discerned between the two forms, modern day animations can be considered as modern avatars of folktales and may be termed as ‘digitales.’  \nKeywords: folktales, folklore, mythology, animation, digitales  \nIntroduction:  \nThe folk tradition in India has long been characterised by telling of tales. These stories would encompass the common beliefs of the community and each subgroup within the society had their own tales to narrate. In big households within a joint family set up, these tales would be orally transmitted from one generation to another usually by the figure of the grandmother or other domestic taletellers. With rapid urbanization, changes in social setup and the emergence of the nuclear family system, this practice got disrupted. The link between the past and the present was however not to be entirely lost. The void that had been created by these fading practices, I argue, was soon to be filled up, at least in some ways, by the ushering in of a new  \n1 Tanvi Sharma is working as an Assistant Professor of English at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh College (Morning), Delhi, India.  \nmedia. The rapid transformations in the contemporary socio-cultural milieu of India have changed the lifestyles of ordinary people in such a manner that technology has become an integral and crucial part of our day-to-day activities. With increased sophistication of technology and a steady movement towards the era of digitization, the virtual world has increasingly started to shape and condition the minds of today. In this paper I study how at this juncture, the animation series and films produced in India have become an important medium that help reconstruct the older cultural and narrative forms by assimilating their contents into a new register.  \nIn the last two decades, the Indian animation industry has seen an unprecedented spurt of growth and development. Although animation is by no means new to India, it has now become an integral part of our popular culture and collective imagination. In this paper Iexplore how recently produced animated series transmit, transform and reinvent ancient Indian mythological and folk stories and characters. Through an in depth analysis of televisual series such as Chhota Bheem, Roll No. 21, Kisna and others I argue that one can observe in them a steady movement towards more folkloristic forms of narration, plot structures and character types as the storylines develop and become more divergent to encompass contemporary concerns into the fold of animation. It is my assertion that owing to the multiple lines of continuities that can be delineated between the two forms, modern day animations can be considered as modern avatar of folktales. Therefore, I believe it would be apposite to call this highly popular and entrancing culture of telling tales in digital form through animation for the contemporary times as ‘d","cbCaiuNje1vFmv3F","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuNje1vFmv3F","pdf",441521,5,1,21,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Folklore tradition and social change\n# Folktales Then, Digitales Now\n## Folktales as oral cultural mass media\n## Adaptation of myth and heroism in animation\n# Analysis of Indian animated series\n## Chhota Bheem, Roll No. 21, Kisna","[{\"question\":\"What does the paper mean by “digitales”?\",\"answer\":\"“Digitales” refers to contemporary animated works functioning as modern avatars of folktales. 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