Manick Sorcar

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Manick Sorcar (formal name Prafulla Chandra "P.C." Sorcar) is an Indian American artist, engineer, and entrepreneur based in Denver, Colorado, USA.

Sorcar is an award-winning artist in various media, including fine arts, cartoons, animations, and world-touring stage shows with live action mixed with laser animation. His animated films, all based on children's stories from India, have won prestigious awards at international film festivals. He shot to fame when his "Deepa and Rupa: A Fairy Tale From India", India's first animation mixed with live action, received the Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival, and "The Sage and the Mouse" won the Gold Medal at the International Film Festival of New York. After this, his "Calcutta Forever: A Laser Fantasy" was recorded as the first laser-documentary screened inside a movie theatre and "Enlightenment of Buddha", which mixed live-performance with life-size laser animation and three-dimensional visual effects on stage, won the Artistic Award at the International Laser Display Association annual awards.

Sorcar is the president of Sorcar Engineering, a Denver-based electrical engineering and lighting firm which did the lighting design for Denver International Airport concourses, sport centers in Japan, and several Saudi Arabian palaces. As an author in the field of electrical engineering, he has written several popular lighting design texts. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington.

Sorcar is the son of legendary Indian magician P.C. Sorcar. He is married to Shikha Sorcar, and has two daughters, Payal Sorcar and Piya Sorcar.