Guys
thanks a lot for all the support and the advise. I will take the suggestion to take one tool first than juggle with two or more. Really appreciate the encouragement and the clear insight provided by all of you both from commercial point of view and also from a phylosophical point of view. Good Feedback.

However, many of you advised on selecting the correct part of animation and sort of specialize on the same. My concern is that unelss I get into it deeply, I might not know what I am good at, right??

Would it be right to take up say Maya - work on it for some time, see what I am good at - Modelling or Animation etc and decide? Or is there a different approach to this?

gp