"I make them laugh, and while their mouths are wide open, I quietly slip in a piece of wisdom."
"I make them laugh, and while their mouths are wide open, I quietly slip in a piece of wisdom."
"I make them laugh, and while their mouths are wide open, I quietly slip in a piece of wisdom."
Pran Kumar Sharma -
Pran Kumar Sharma -
Pran Kumar Sharma -
Father Of Indian Comics.
Father Of Indian Comics.
Father Of Indian Comics.
Our Journey
Our Journey
Our Journey
It Started with an Idea & Pen
It Started with an Idea & Pen
It Started with an Idea & Pen
A young cartoonist named Pran Kumar Sharma started drawing for Hindi magazines (Milap) and newspapers back in 1960’s. He just wanted to make people laugh with his creations. Turns out, India was waiting for exactly this movement.
A young cartoonist named Pran Kumar Sharma started drawing for Hindi magazines (Milap) and newspapers back in 1960’s. He just wanted to make people laugh with his creations. Turns out, India was waiting for exactly this movement.
India's Own Hero is Born
India's Own Hero is Born
India's Own Hero is Born
A Brain Faster Than Any Computer In The World.
A brain faster than any computer in the world. Chacha Chaudhary was born in 1969 — and India had its first homegrown hero. Not imported. Not borrowed. Completely, entirely, proudly ours. The whole country said — yes. That's him. That's us.
Chacha Chaudhary was born in 1969 — and India had its first homegrown hero.
Pran's Vision was to give India its own Characters & Stories which the We can Be Proud off and Can Call Home. Completely, entirely, proudly ours.
The whole country said — yes. That's him. That's us.
India's First Comic Publishing House
India's First Comic Publishing House
India's First Comic Publishing House
Pran had an Idea instead of weekly magazine, Why dont India have its own Comic Book, He just did it — and put Chacha Chaudhary on the cover of India's first homegrown comic.
Pran had an Idea instead of weekly magazine, Why dont India have its own Comic Book, He just did it — and put Chacha Chaudhary on the cover of India's first homegrown comic. An Indian character. An Indian comic book. Published for Indian readers. It was a gamble.
An Indian character. An Indian comic book. Published for Indian Readers.
The comics flew off shelves. Readers lined up. Issues sold out. Print runs kept growing and growing and growing across India.
Biggest Selling Comics
Of India
Biggest Selling Comics
Of India
The comics flew off shelves. Readers lined up. Issues sold out. Print runs kept growing and growing and growing across India.
Pran's Comics Became India's Best Selling Books In The Country. Not by accident, but because one character made an entire country fall completely in love with reading.
Pran's Comics Became India's Best Selling Books In The Country. Not by accident, but because one character made an entire country fall completely in love with reading.
Biggest Selling Comics
Of India
Creation Of Pran's Universe
Creation Of Pran's Universe
Pran Created Pinki — pure mischief girl. Billoo — every neighbourhood boy who ever existed. Raman — the very middle class salesman India recognised instantly. Shrimati Ji — Women sharper than everyone around her. India’s Biggest IPs Universe was born.
Pran Created Pinki — pure mischief girl. Billoo — every neighbourhood boy who ever existed. Raman — the very middle class salesman India recognised instantly. Shrimati Ji — Women sharper than everyone around her. India’s Biggest IPs Universe was born. Character after character. Hit after hit.
Character after character. Hit after hit.
Evolution of Storytelling
Evolution of Storytelling
Evolution of
Storytelling
Super Hit Live action Show. Television. 605 episodes of Chacha Chaudhary — watched by 600 million who had grown up on the comics and more who were discovering him for the very first time.
Super Hit Live action Show. Television. 605 episodes of Chacha Chaudhary — watched by 600 million who had grown up on the comics and more who were discovering him for the very first time. Pran didn't just create characters. He knew exactly where to take them.
Pran didn't just create characters. He knew exactly where to take them.
Born in India
Loved by the world
Born in India
Loved by the world
Comics reaching readers across borders. Merchandise in hands across continents.
Comics reaching readers across borders. Merchandise in hands across continents.
Pran's Character felt like Family to All Indian's Across the Globe.
Pran's Character felt like Family to All Indian's Across the Globe.
Pran's Creations were all Across The Globe, Read by 600 Million Fans. Prans became India's Biggest IP's Media House.
Pran Kumar Sharma never set out to build a global icon.
Pran's Creations were all Across The Globe, Read by 600 Million Fans. Prans became India's Biggest IP's Media House.
He just drew what he loved. The world caught up eventually.
Pran Kumar Sharma never set out to build a global icon.
He just drew what he loved. The world caught up eventually.
THE PRANS - TODAY
THE PRANS - TODAY
Prans Universe Studios — run today by the Pran family — is India's largest IP media company. The biggest portfolio of original Indian characters ever created. Billions of fans across generations, across borders, across every corner of the world. All of it traces back to one man who simply sat down and started drawing.
Prans Universe Studios — run today by the Pran family — is India's largest IP media company. The biggest portfolio of original Indian characters ever created. Billions of fans across generations, across borders, across every corner of the world. All of it traces back to one man who simply sat down and started drawing.
"I Just Wanted To Make People Laugh. But The Moment They Opened Their Mouths Wide — I Quietly Slipped Some Wisdom In Them".
Pran Kumar Sharma -
Father Of Indian Comics.
Our Journey
It Started with an Idea & Pen
A young cartoonist named Pran Kumar Sharma started drawing for Hindi magazines (Milap) and newspapers back in 1960’s. He just wanted to make people laugh with his creations. Turns out, India was waiting for exactly this movement.
India's Own Hero is Born
A Brain Faster Than Any Computer In The World.
Chacha Chaudhary was born in 1969 — and India had its first homegrown hero.
Pran's Vision was to give India its own Characters & Stories which the We can Be Proud off and Can Call Home. Completely, entirely, proudly ours.
India's First Comic Publishing House
Pran had an Idea instead of weekly magazine, Why dont India have its own Comic Book, He just did it — and put Chacha Chaudhary on the cover of India's first homegrown comic.
An Indian character. An Indian comic book. Published for Indian Readers.
Biggest Selling Comics Of India
The comics flew off shelves. Readers lined up. Issues sold out. Print runs kept growing and growing and growing across India.
Pran's Comics Became India's Best Selling Books In The Country. Not by accident, but because one character made an entire country fall completely in love with reading.
Creation Of Pran's Universe
Pran Created Pinki — pure mischief girl. Billoo — every neighbourhood boy who ever existed. Raman — the very middle class salesman India recognised instantly. Shrimati Ji — Women sharper than everyone around her. India’s Biggest IPs Universe was born.
Character after character. Hit after hit.
Evolution of Storytelling
Super Hit Live action Show. Television. 605 episodes of Chacha Chaudhary — watched by 600 million who had grown up on the comics and more who were discovering him for the very first time.
Pran didn't just create characters. He knew exactly where to take them.
Born in India
Loved by the world
Comics reaching readers across borders. Merchandise in hands across continents.
Pran's Character felt like Family to All Indian's Across the Globe.
Pran's Creations were all Across The Globe, Read by 600 Million Fans. Prans became India's Biggest IP's Media House.
Pran Kumar Sharma never set out to build a global icon.
He just drew what he loved. The world caught up eventually.
THE PRANS - TODAY
Prans Universe Studios — run today by the Pran family — is India's largest IP media company. The biggest portfolio of original Indian characters ever created. Billions of fans across generations, across borders, across every corner of the world. All of it traces back to one man who simply sat down and started drawing.
Characters You Love. Stories You Remember.
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