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 The history of chota bheem

One of India's most successful comics is a four-year-old from Bihar, Naveen Richard. And his success story is unique, especially when you look at the media landscape of the country today. When Richard was six, he wrote a paper for a school competition, asking the students how they could make a comic book better than his own creation, Chota Bheem. His answer, "Make a better hero," was the idea for Chota Bheem's Super Friends. "For a kid of my age to want to have a superhero like me in his school is amazing," says Richard. But how did this humble school kid manage to earn the name Bheem (which roughly translates to brave one) from his fans all across the country? Chota Bheem first came to limelight in 2002. "My idea was the mascot of all kinds of friends having a fun time. With the same stick in their hands, they would play music, shoot each other with water guns, fight to win awards, get married and work together to save the world," says Richard, who has been writing the stories of the character, created by his grandfather and inspired by the Adventures of Tintin and Super Friends, since the age of 13. Richard believes his character is the one which brings Indians together. "Chota Bheem is a child who likes other children, and loves to share his ideas with other children of his age group. In that way, he has the sweetest of character values," Richard says. "In today's environment, where communal hatred is rampant and neighbours have one point of view, we can see that even the little brother of an invisible tiger is not afraid of him, or the protector of the forest is not angry with her, so in that way Chota Bheem is the hero that children like to see and emulate."