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I have very fond association with Champak.
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He loved reading these comics as much as I did! My uncle back home kept them safe for me to re-read on my next vacation. I had a good collection of Lot Pots built over many train journeys. As the name suggests, Motu Patlu were the quintessential Indian middle class comic characters resembling Laurel and Hardy, often getting themselves into funny situations and cracking silly jokes.
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Motu Patlu series in the kids’ comic magazine ‘Lot Pot’ was highly popular in the 80s.
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He was awarded Padma Shri in 2015, a year after his death. Pran created many more such characters for magazines and won many accolades for popularizing comics in India. The character of Chacha Chaudhary was sketched by cartoonist Pran Kumar Sharma after the character of a wise old man in Indian families who used brain not brawn to fight evil, solve problems and impart moral values. Pinky, Chacha’s dog Rocket and Saboo solved many tricky cases that even police couldn’t! He always sat outside the house in his briefs, boots, ear loops and lived by the tagline ‘Jab Saboo ko gussa aata hai to door kahin jwalamukhi phat-ta hai’.
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Saboo, the 15 feet tall alien from Jupiter could gulp down drum full of daal, 100 rotis and 300 laddoos. Chacha Chaudhary the wizard with a desi lath, could solve any problem in the community. ‘Chacha Chaudhary ka dimaag computer se bhi tez chalta hai’. Published by Diamond comics, the adventures of genius old man Chacha with Pinky and Saboo were every child’s favourite. Every kid who grew up in 80s has fond memories around the popular titles. I learnt to appreciate the beauty of Hindi language from comics and owe my interest in Hindi literature to those simple comic books. Not a single page was ever torn nor was any comic thrown away. In addition, few comics were bought occasionally to read, re-read and share. I built a tiny and precious collection of 4-5 comics which I read over and over throughout the long journey and thus began my fascination with comics and reading.īooks were expensive in those days and course books were the only paperbacks parents afforded us. I’d finish one and he would buy me another. To keep me busy and away from troubling my toddler sibling, father kept buying comics from every station on the way. The relocation ensued a three-day long train journey from North to far East. I was four or five and had barely learnt to read when my father, an army man, was transferred to remote Assam. Covid rang a death knell for many magazine titles that once defined our childhood and long summer vacations. Even prior to Covid, the print and publication industry had been struggling. Recently one of the longest running Hindi print magazine halted publication. Last October, I received a message that the private library franchise in my area is closing down.