Pocahontas (1995 film) character flowered into the idea of a grandmotherly spiritual adviser to Pocahontas. Because of Katzenberg's opposition to having Grandmother Willow in the story, Joe Grant assisted fellow veteran story artist Burny Mattinson with coming up tree puns such as "My bark is worse than my bite", "The roots of all problems", and "They're barking up the wrong tree." Mattinson reluctantly added them to his pitch for the next morning, and during the story meeting, he exclaimed, "Everybody loved it! All of a sudden: 'Oh, I want her in!' 'Let's build her part bigger!'" In September 1992, Disney began casting actors
Disney James Nambiar, which also paved way for debut of actors Saju Navodaya and Hima Sankar, stopped production after the first schedule. Disney also debuted in Tamil with the film Puthumugangal Thevai directed by Maneesh Babu. Disney went on doing low budget both in Tamil and malayalam, until he got to play one of the lead characters in the commercial film @Andheri. In this film he also worked as assistant director ( uncredited). The crew of this movie happened to show Disney's working stills to director Jeethu Joseph, who casted him in Memories. Disney won wide acceptance for his portrayal of the