Pandavas: The Five Warriors

Pandavas: The Five Warriors
Directed by	Usha Ganesh Raja
Written by	Sujatha Rangarajan
Based on	The Mahabharata by Ganesha
Music by	Ilaiyaraja
Edited by	B. Lenin V. T. Vijayan
Production company	Pentamedia Graphics
Release date	23 December 2000
Running time	110 minutes
Country	India
Language	English
Budget	US$10 million

Pandavas: The Five Warriors is a 2000 Indian English-language computer-animated film directed by Usha Ganesh Raja and produced by Pentamedia Graphics. It is India's first computer animated film.

Based on a classic Indian tale from the Mahabharata, the story depicts the eternal fight between good and evil through the tale of the five Pandavas brothers and their struggles with their cousins, the Kauravas.

Pandavas: The Five Warriors is the first computer animated theatrical film to be produced by an Indian firm — the Chennai-based multimedia and graphics company Pentamedia Graphics, as well as the first computer animated adaptation of the Mahabharata. As the film was mainly targeted at western audiences, the character Duryodhana was renamed to "Dhuri", and Dharmaraja was renamed "Dharm". Focusing mainly on the story of the Pandavas from the Mahabharata, the majority of episodes in the Mahabharata were downplayed. Krishna's role in the life of the Pandavas did not receive emphasis either, and the film makes only a "passing reference" to the Bhagavad Gita.Ilaiyaraaja was signed to compose the film's music, and J. D. Jerry was signed as the creative director. Sujatha Rangarajan was chosen as the screenwriter, while B. Lenin and V. T. Vijayan were signed as the editors.

The film was released on 23 December 2000, and its television rights were acquired by Cartoon Network.

S. R. Ashok Kumar of The Hindu positively reviewed the film and its technical aspects, saying "Each and every frame of the nearly 110-minute-long picture is a marvel and it is the best form of expression on celluloid."