Let's talk about Chacha Chaudhary and Raj Comics heroes. - Page 4

Originally posted by: NathuPyare

I remember Champak by those cute rabbit elephants and other animals...

Abhi to zyada yaad bhi nahi ki kaisi stories hoti thi usme.

BTW, could you please share that Chandamama link? I read just one issue of this magazine and it was good.

Originally posted by: Wistfulness

Cheeku khargosh 😎

BTW, could you please share that Chandamama link? I read just one issue of this magazine and it was good.

Here u go -

https://chandamama.in/english/english.php

Originally posted by: NathuPyare

I remember Champak by those cute rabbit elephants and other animals...

Abhi to zyada yaad bhi nahi ki kaisi stories hoti thi usme.

It used to have riddles and a couple of games at the back of the comic. Usi ke chakkar mein lete the.

Doga, Nagraj and Bhokal are best for superhero movies.

There are also many pulp fiction writers in Hindi like Surendra Mohan Pathak whose books can be adapted into movies. In fact, one of them was Gulshan Nanda and he wrote quite a few hit films.

Nagraj shooting snakes out of his hands is as weird as Spiderman shooting web out of his wrists. Nagraj has many other superpowers like he heals really fast almost instantly, so it is almost impossible to injure him.

Chandamama had a serialized fantasy called Kaali Ghati. Somebody can make a movie franchise out of it.

Champak had many recurring animal characters that can be serialized on TV.

In Marathi too, there were many pulp fiction writers who created characters like Kala Pahad, Zunjaar, Dhananjay. Movies can be made out of them too like in case of Byomkesh Bakshi.

Champak Comics was my favourite ❤️

I barely read any Raj Comics. I was a Tinkle kid and enjoyed Suppandi, Shikari Shambhu, Kaalia the Crow, Tantri the Mantri, Hodja, etc. Even in western comics, I stuck to Tintin, Asterix, and Archies. I've not read many superhero comics.

But I will watch a well-made superhero animation or live-action movie or series. I agree, that it would be cool to have a narrative created by South Asians and embedded in the culture. Baahubali was amazing because it gave us a LOTR like fantasy fiction but rooted in our culture.

It is too bad that a majority of the Indian superhero movies have been crap and cheesy. Bhavesh Joshi and Mard ko Dard were great but didn't get traction at the box office. Perhaps, this is where streaming can help.

Also to add, the original doesn't always have to be necessarily desi. Vishal Bharadwaj remade Shakespeare but Maqbool, Omkara, and Haider were so quintessentially Indian. Audiences embraced those movies even though many Indians don't really read Shakespeare (does anyone in the world beyond Theatre or Literature majors?)

You can potentially adapt any novel or comic to suit Indian audiences including Archies. The reason the Archies adaptation is causing knee-jerk reactions is the strong anti-nepotism sentiment plus Zoya has set it in a very niche time period and subculture that feels alien to most Indians.

Even retro Archies set in well-known metros like Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta, etc. would have appealed to people more because even though urban India is a niche audience most people are familiar with urban India.