India, Dec. 9 -- Director and animator Ishan Shukla, the man behind the upcoming animated film, Baahubali: The Eternal, has responded to comparisons between his film and Kung Fu Panda. When the teaser for the film was attached to Baahubali: The Epic, people thought a particular sequence in the film was inspired by Kung Fu Panda. Here's what he said.

Ishan held an AMA on Reddit, and questions poured in for the animator. One question was, "The sequence where Indra and the red monster-like character fight, some bits, like the pillars being thrown and the red character trying to climb up from one end. And the frame of all the pillars being stuck to the character - these looked inspired from certain King Fu Panda scenes - like the Jailbreak a...