The Leader
Mina
Confident, curious, and gentle. The girl who asks the questions a village forgets to ask.
Animated Portfolio · Reimagined
Mina & Raju
Mina & Raju
A Story Reimagined
A semi-realistic, cinematic retelling of Bangladesh's most beloved cartoon — where a girl, her brother, and a clever parrot still teach a village to listen.
About Mina
From a UNICEF idea to a generation's voice.
Mina was never just a cartoon. She was a quiet revolution drawn for South Asian children — and her story is still being told, only now in human form.
1991
The Idea Begins
UNICEF Bangladesh, with regional support, conceives a children's character to advance girls' education and child rights across South Asia.
1993
Mina is Born
The first episode airs. A nine-year-old village girl, her younger brother Raju, and a clever parrot named Mithu enter living rooms across Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
1990s
A Continent Listens
Episodes tackle gender equality, school attendance, hygiene, and child marriage — wrapped in stories children actually want to watch.
Today
Reimagined
This portfolio reintroduces Mina, Raju, and the village in semi-realistic human form — the same heart, a new register, for a new generation.
Characters
The pack, in a new light.
Hover to meet each one. Same souls — rendered in a register closer to memory than to drawing.
The Leader
The Spark
Raju
Mina's younger brother. Mischievous, devoted, and the first to laugh at her jokes — even the bad ones.
The Voice
Mithu
The parrot who repeats only what matters. A small creature with the village's sharpest memory.
The Village
Parents & Villagers
The chorus that learns alongside her — fathers, mothers, neighbors, the slow turning of an entire community.
Story & Impact
A cartoon that changed the conversation.
Mina's stories were short. The change they sparked was not. Generations of South Asian children grew up knowing their voice mattered — because hers did first.
Education for Girls
Episodes that asked an entire generation: why should only one of these children go to school?
Child Rights
Stories about being heard, being safe, being chosen — tucked into a quarter-hour of joyful animation.
Social Awareness
Hygiene. Marriage. Dowry. Conversations a village had never had — sparked by a girl with a bindi and a smile.
Gallery
Concept art & reimagined scenes.
A visual showcase — reference compositions and human-form renderings of the world Mina lives in.
Sunset Walk
Mithu in the Mango Tree
The Village School
Mina, Reimagined
A story doesn't end. It is handed down.
Mina taught a continent that a girl with a question is more powerful than a village without one. This portfolio is a small thank-you — and an invitation to keep retelling her story in whatever register the next generation needs.