Sorcar first shot to fame in the nineties when his Deepa & Rupa: A Fairy Tale from India, India's first animation mixed with live action, received the Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1990 and was nominated for an Emmy Award[8] in 1991, and The Sage and the Mouse won the Gold Medal at the International Film Festival of New York[9] in 1993.
In 2000, he received the Excellence in Art Plaque from the National Federation of Indian American Associations in New Jersey, for his laser shows Dancing with My Soul and India Forever.
His third win was for the innovative application of lasers in his production Light Art in Shower Ocean, which won first place at the 2015 ILDA contest.
His 2017 laser animation, Beautiful Mess, won an Award of Merit at the Accolade Global Film Competition.
[20] On 24 May 2014, at New Delhi, India, he received the IIT-BHU Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Cultural and Enlightenment through Science and Arts.
In 2015, during the Silver Jubilee celebration for the 25th anniversary of his animation broadcast on PBS, the Governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper congratulated Sorcar by writing:[3] "For a quarter of a century, your animation films have taken children on a special journey to the lands of India where they have learned more of her culture and people.
These films have taught that diversity is an asset and what brings us together is our common thread of humanity irrespective of where we grow up...your work continues to make Colorado, the United States, and India proud.
[citation needed] For his simultaneous contribution to art and science, he was acclaimed as "the Renaissance Man of our time" in the book Voices of Colorado: Perspectives of Asian Americans (ISBN 0615202136) by Nestor Mercado, Elnora Minoza-Mercado, and Alok Sarwal.