Investigating the Adaptive Animation Potentialities of the “Indian Sarpatak” Story in Attar’s Elahi Name

Animation is one of the most popular cinematic genres for people of different age, intellectual and cultural levels. Adaptation of literary texts is, also, one of the flourishing areas for making these works, which in line with its global flow, in Iran, considering the rich and great Persian literature, has the capacity to be given more attention. With this approach, mystical works, and especially Attar's poems, are one of the desirable contexts/areas for adaptation. In the Indian Sarpatak in Elahi Name and similar examples, this type of work is suitable for making adaptive animation, providing the ground for its dramatic exploitation, emphasizing capacities such as the story, and theme, which are standard and expandable, different  kinds of storytelling techniques, the presence of lovely characters and the possibility of of expansion with a focus on description and dialogue. In addition, the text and the use of crisis points and peaks, action-oriented and suspenseful conflicts, and, finally, the ability to create different kinds of interesting scenes and situations suitable for animation space could be some potentials in this respect... Such anecdotes and similar examples in the mystical works of classical Persian literature can be considered as suitable frameworks for making adaptive animation.