Netflix’s first Indian animation original series, ‘Mighty Little Bheem: I love Taj Mahal’, will have its world premiere at the Mumbai International Film festival (MIFF) today.

Krishna Mohann Chintapatla, an alumni of the Zee Institute of Creative Arts with 25 years of experience in the field of Animation film making, has directed this epic entertaining animation film.

Screening of  ‘Mighty Little Bheem..’ at MIFF is another step towards mainstreaming of shows that are made for streaming platforms, which scored big at other awards like the Oscars when products like ‘CODA’ and ‘Dune’ bagged several awards.

Meanwhile, at the MIFF, the first animation film co-produced by India and Japan, ‘Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama’, too would have a special screening.

The film is celebrating 30 years since its first launch. Based on Valmiki’s Ramayan, ‘Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama’ explores the fusion style of animation that consists of three different schools of animation — Manga from Japan, Disney from the US and Ravi Varma from India.

The film is directed by well-known Indian animator Ram Mohan, and Japanese directors Yûgô Sakô and Koichi Saski.

Such animation films are also efforts to bring in a young audience to film festivals and for the first time children under the age group of 18 are being made part of 17th edition of MIFF, one of the oldest and largest film festivals for non-feature films in South Asia.