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The office of Studio Durga is hidden away in the basement of a once-busy residential colony in South Delhi. Days before the city went into lockdown, Rajorshi Basu and his team of 20-somethings folded their hands and said “Namaste” when we met there. “This is the one good thing to come out of the coronavirus scare,” said this year, a full-length anime movie, the first 20 minutes of which have been released as a mini-series on YouTube to test the Indian audience’s palate for Japanese anime. It has more than 26,000 views—not a large number, but for the studio, enough to know that their niche product will find takers. is a mystery drama set in modern India, inspired in equal parts by Hindu mythology and cyber technology.
