SPIDER-MAN INDIA –SPIDER-MAN EXTENDS FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD TO STREETS OF BOMBAY!

Bangalore, India (June 14, 2004)— Marvel Comics & Gotham Entertainment Group –Indian publishing licensee of Marvel Comics and the leading publisher of international comic magazines in South Asia – announces the launch of Spider-Man India.

Spider-Man India interweaves the local customs, culture and mystery of modern India, with an eye to making Spider-Man’s mythology more relevant to this particular audience. Readers of this series will not see the familiar Peter Parker of Queens under the classic Spider-Man mask, but rather a new hero – a young, Indian boy named Pavitr Prabhakar. As Spider-Man, Pavitr leaps around rickshaws and scooters in Indian streets, while swinging from monuments such as the Gateway of India and the Taj Mahal.

Mumbai’s (Bombay’s) first web-swinging superhero will be joined by a reinterpretation of the classic Spider-Man villain, the Green Goblin -- reinvented as a Rakshasa, an Indian mythological demon.

“We feel this is one of the most exciting and unique projects in comic history,” said Gotham Entertainment Group CEO Sharad Devarajan. “Unlike traditional translations of American comics, Spider-Man India will become the first-ever ‘transcreation,’ where we reinvent the origin of a Western property like Spider-Man so that he is an Indian boy in Mumbai and dealing with local problems and challenges.”

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Does dhoti provide extra mobility?

Thats hilarious!!!!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA

LOL!

well, in india we have upgraded customs to Pants now

Those bloody shameless Indians!!!

Can't they do anything right! Can't they invent their own super-hero? Always taking from others! Always copying the west! They copy from films and music... and now comics!

Whatever happened to Shakti-man?

well, shaktiman was similar as super man, but atleast they invented own supre hero name

Well if you notice, it's the work of Marvel Comics...not Indians. They know you can't really sell western pop culture effectively until you indianise it. I think we can take pride in the fact that India has one of the world's most resilient indigenous popular culture.

I don't think they should've Indianised it in 'that way'. I mean it looks quite laughable. Who's gonna take it seriously?

The dhoti is not aerodynamic

Anyone remember the Jackie Shroff superhero film "Shiva Ka Insaaf"? It was a sort of Indian Zorro-type thing.

Also, could "Mr India" be classed as a superhero?

Dharmendra did a Superman;

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297416/

.. I remember seeing posters for this movie, never watched it though. Although I don’t think Dharmendra was Superman;

http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/s/superman-indian.html

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/amasoni2002/s ... rman_(1987).htm

Ali

that's not a dharmendra in superman costume, that that guy who was "duryoudhan" in Mahabharat.

Puneet Issar was Superman. Dharmendra played Jor-el.

Anybody watched SPIDERMAN 2 ?

I just got back from watching it and I have to say the movie is fantastic. The movie has so many layers and keeps you entertained from start to finish. I'm not a fan of comic book heros but I really enjoyed spiderman 1 and now the second one. The special effects and the cinematography are better than the first one. The human elements and emotions are also high on this one. Try to catch this one in a DTS theater because the sound mix rocks!!

I remember another hero - Junior G -