The fifth episode is on some of the popular comic books like Bobbanum Mollyum, Pachuvum Kovalanum, Cheriya Lokavum Velya Manushyarum and so on.
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“The fourth is on the Poompatta comics, which began even before Balarama and Balabhoomi (two popular comic books) - 40 plus year olds would have fond memories of it.
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The third episode is the original idea they began the series with – The Phantom and Mandrake comics. The episode also has an interview with Abdul Hameed who wrote several books on Malayalam comics but had not included his own work Inspector Prakash – modelled after him – in any of them. Actor Madhu’s fans then created another detective character called CID Madhu. The second really interesting episode deals with a series of comics called CID Nazir, that were based on actor Prem Nazir, who also did a film called CID Nazir. The team also met artist Mohandas, the man behind popular comic characters Mayavi and Kapish and Kishku, artist Baby who created Dinkan and Shakthimarunnu, Jacob Thomas, Regal Comics publisher, former editor of Poompatta R Gopalakrishnan, former editor of Poompatta and Balabhoomi Venu Variath, graphic novelists like Joshy Benedict and Appupen. Watch: First episode of Kadha Vara Kadhakal The elderly man had not possessed even one of his original comics.
It was from one such comic collector – Rajesh G Nair – that the team gifted a photocopy of CID Moosa to its creator Kannadi Viswanathan. Then there was Arun Prasad who had editions of Amar Chitra Katha that even Amar Chitra Katha does not have anymore!” Sreeram says. And then in Palakkad, we came across a restaurant called Xanadu, run by Xanadu Chandran who named it so because he was a fan of the comic character Mandrake and that was the name of Mandrake’s mansion. Another surprise was when we came to know about a comic called Inspector Prakash by a police officer called Abdul Hameed. Kannadi Viswanathan himself was a revelation, how genuine and unassuming he is. “There were many surprises when we began working on the documentary. But CID Moosa, apparently the first Malayali superhero in comics, appears to be original. Some of Viswanathan’s comics – like Irumbukai Mayavi – were translated from the Tamil comics which he read in those days.
That’s when they learnt their grandfather had also created comics, apart from being a tailor. When he first googled CID Moosa on the internet, there were only pages about the 2003 Malayalam film by the same name, Narayanan says.Įven Viswanathan’s granddaughters had no idea about the comic until in a show about the film, it was pointed out that the title came from Kannadi Viswanathan’s comic. In the film, Narayanan Radhakrishnan, a lawyer and comic collector who also became the mentor for the series, talks about the little known comics beyond the popular Bobanum Moliyum by Toms and the Poompatta books. They had no idea the history of Malayalam comics would turn out to be so vast. They began the documentary at the time Regal Comics reprinted The Phantom and Mand rake comics in Malayalam.
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