Pran died at the age of 75 this morning, but he shall forever live on with Chacha Chaudhary, in our most cherished memories. Thank you Pran
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Was known as Walt Disney of india.
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Famous strip Chacha Chaudhary is on display at International Museum of cartoon Art
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Published over 400 comic books, over 2,00,000 drawings.
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Before the advent of Chacha Chaudhary, strips like Rip Kirby, Phantom were translated into indian languages, but with Chacha Chaudhary, Pran changed the face of indian comic circuit and gave us our first indian hero.
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Had an elder brother named Kawalnath (who was also an illustrator) , he looked up to for inspiration.
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Even after 40 years of being in the limelight, Pran prefered to work 8 hours a day from his quiet studio in Delhi, with just one assistant.
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Was born in undivided india in a small town called Kasur near Lahore, but had to move to gwalior after partition at the age of 9.
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Even though he had earned a master’s degree in political science, Pran liked to stay away from political cartoons, the turf was reserved for his contemporaries like R.K laxman and Kutty.
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When pran first sat down to draw Chacha Chaudhary, he wanted it to be unique, and that’s why chacha chaudhary turned out be the wise old figurehead unlike the ripped western heroes.
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For the first 5 years, Chacha Chaudhary was alone, then one day Pran looked up and saw Mars but that didn’t fascinate him enough, so he moved to Jupiter and thus came Sabu.
we can’t imagine how we could have survived those drab summer vacations, when we had no technology and Televisions only had one channel, had it not been for Pran’s comics. That endless wait for the new issues and re-reading the old ones till then. Most of our childhood memories and Pran’s comics are inseparable. We’ll keep revisiting them with our next generation 🙂
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