Super V
Super V is an Indian animated television series loosely based on Virat Kohli and was created by Harman Baweja for Star India. It was launched on multiple Star Network and Disney India's channels from 5 November 2019.[1][2]
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| Created by | Harman Baweja |
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| Creative director | Puneet Sira |
| Starring | Upen Chauhan |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
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| Animator | IRealities Technology |
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| Original release | 5 November 2019 – 26 January 2020 |
Plot
Super V is the story of Virat. A teenager at the cusp of childhood and adulthood. An impulsive boy, who is trying to find his identity between his aspirations, his father's expectations and other pressures. What happens when a boy like this, becomes a superhero?
15 year old Virat lives with his parents and Sister in New Delhi. His father, Ashok is a lawyer, someone infamous for his strict honesty, and his mother, Gogi is a homemaker, a supermom, who always manages to ground the situation no matter how volatile it gets. The reason? Well the same reason that disturbs the situation in every house, the relationship between Virat and Ashok. Ashok wants Virat to be more responsible and Virat wants to be himself. Ashok wants Virat to be more disciplined and Virat wants to be left alone. Ashok wants Virat to be more mature and well, Virat wants to stay a teenager for a few more years.
There are a few more things Virat wants, one to become the best batsman in the whole world. He idolizes Sachit Wadekar and wants to be as good as him. The boy is a prodigy. His coach, teacher, even his father, knows that Virat is meant to shine in the field of cricket and the only thing that stops him from shining is his anger. The other thing that causes problems in his dream to become a great cricketer, is the school baddie, the school bully, Sooraj, who is the reigning captain of the under 19 Indian team. Virat nemesis, Sooraj is a very good bowler. He tries his level best to create problems for Virat while playing cricket. What makes it easy for him is that he comes from a rich, influential background.
Virat is the kind of a guy who doesn't talk to everyone, but with the few that he talks to, he talks non-stop. And three such people are. Jo, Bunny, and Amara. His best friends. They stick with him through thick and thin. And of course, there is also Shazia, Virat's crush. Virat is tongue-tied whenever she is around.
His journey to become a superhero starts when his grandfather comes in his dream on his 15th birthday and tells him that his family has a secret. They are a family of superheroes! As he inherits his family's heirloom, he realizes that he can use these powers of the kada (the bracelet) for good. But the rule of the universe is that if there is good then there must be evil. As the Superhero rises, so does a Supervillain. Navar, the supervillain of the story has a plan to take over the world.
An intertwining story of how Virat must balance his life at home, with his friends, his love interest, saving the world from Navar's evil plans and must still find it within himself to make India win the world cup!
Cast
- Upen Chauhan as Virat / Super V
- Samay Raj Thakkar as Nawaal
- Anil Dutt as Virat's Grandfather
- Rishabh Arora as Bunny
- Mallika Singh as Amara / Shazia
- Nathan Dcosta as Jo (English)
- Ketan Kava as Jo (Hindi)
- Akash Chopra as the commentator (Cameo)
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | "Can Dreams Become Reality?" | Puneet Sira |
| 5 November 2019[3] | |
| On Virat's sixteenth birthday, his grandfather appears in his dream sitting in the crowd where he is playing cricket with a red door and an antique lock on it as background. Virat's parents wants to keep his grandfather's life a secret. Meanwhile an evil doctor has started mind controlling a person resulting in an accident who happens to be Virat's father's client. Virat performs an heroic attempt to save Shazia who was in danger during rehearsals of her show. After knowing about this his father got angry on him resulting in both of them being sad in their respective rooms. | |||||
| 2 | "The ABC's of becoming a Superhero" | Puneet Sira |
| 10 November 2019 | |
| Virat learns the A B C (Alert, Brave, Caring) of becoming a superhero from his grand father in a dream. He and his friends tries to find the secret door. Virat founds the secret locker in which his parents locked the ring which provides superpowers. | |||||
| 3 | "Discovering the Powers" | Puneet Sira |
| 17 November 2019 | |
| Virat has discovered his superpowers, speed and strength. Elsewhere, his father gets to know his truth. His father suspects of the truth behind all the events happening around the city. We get to see De. Ramanujan who is the only one who can stops Navaar's plan. Navaar uses Sukhdev to take out Ramanujan where the clash between Sukhdev and Ramanujan takes place. | |||||
| 4 | "With Power Comes Responsibility" | Ravinder Singh Bakshi |
| 24 November 2019 | |
| Virat learns that having Superpowers is not fun and that he needs to be careful. He shows off his power to his friends and wastes his power over showing off to friends rather than using it for helping others. And thus can't use it when he need it the most i.e. while meeting his favourite cricket Sachit Wadekar. In the end his grandfather tells him the real spirit of having superpowers. Meanwhile, Navaar the villain makes his next move and plans to destroy the city by taking control over two more people. | |||||
| 5 | "The rise of Super V" | Ravinder Singh Bakshi |
| 1 December 2019 | |
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Virat uses his powers to help people out and prevent a catastrophic train collision. People notice Super V for the first time. He helps people in problem. Virat saves the city from various threats and hence comes into the limelight. His father gets worried over him getting popular but notices Dr Ramanujan. Navaar connects Super V to Virat's school and decides to go there. An imminent terrorist attack on the school is seen in the precap. | |||||
| 6 | "Navaar meets Super V" | Ravinder Singh Bakshi |
| 8 December 2019 | |
| Navaar comes to Virat's school for an assembly. Meanwhile, Navaar's commandos pretend a terrorist attack on the school, in hopes Super V will appear. Super V appears and battles the commandos to free the school. The commandos are almost defeated when one of them throws a child of the building. Super V tries to reach the child but is held back by a commando. The episode ends with the kid falling and Super V jumping off the building as well. | |||||
| 7 | "Downfall" | Gautmik |
| 22 December 2019 | |
| The scene continues from Super V jumping out of the building to save the falling child. The student is saved and bought to the ground. The commandos escape after being defeated. Later Navaar is frustrated that his plans were ruined. He watches the news in which a reporter comments "What is super v was super villain?" This gives Navaar an idea. Later in the episode Super V is seen destroying bridges and buildings, and causing havoc, even though it is Sukhdev in costume. Later Super V is resented and hated. | |||||
| 8 | "Ramanujan is the key" | Gautmik |
| 29 December 2019 | |
| Virat and his friends search for Ramanujan to get to the bottom of the crisis. Amara connects Ramanujan's son, Venky, through his social media account to identify his friend. Virat as Super V goes to Benny's friend's house and gets information on where Benny is. Meanwhile, in a forest bunker, Ramanujan disrupts a control wave of Navaar's lab to make them lose control of the Sukhdev. Dr.Tech tries to locate the origin of the disruptor wave but is unsuccessful. However they regain control over Sukhdev. Virat and friends arrive at the bunker and are let inside by Ramanujan. Virat convinces Ramanujan to disrupt another wave to locate Dr.Tech, but instead, Navaar discovers the bunker location and sends 3 superhuman commandos to deal with Ramanujan. The episode ends with Super V fighting the commandos. | |||||
| 9 | "Navaar vs Super V" | Puneet Sira |
| 5 January 2020 | |
| Super V is engaged in a battle with 3 commandos, as the backup squad is on the way. At Navaar's lair, Dr.Tech reveals he has laser drones on standby, Navaar orders him to release all laser drones available. Back at the fight scene, the commandos appear to be defeated. Inside the bunker, Ramanujan and Virat's friends work to make an escape plan. Meanwhile, Virat's father spots the backup commandos and follows the copter by car. The drones arrive and fire lasers at Super V. The commando backup squad arrives followed by Virat's dad. The drones begin to overwhelm Super V, and Ramanujan hands video game remotes to Bunny and Amara to fire the bunker's lasers at the drones. The plan works and drones fall to the ground. The 3 commandos recover and attack Super V hurting him. Jo and Ramanujan send out a disruptor wave stronger than before and release Dr.Tech's control on the 3 commandos. Super V jumps up and uses one of Navaar's drones's lasers to destroy the other drones. Angered that his plan failed, Navaar declares he will deal with Super V himself and changes into an unseen form. The backup squad finds and entrance to the bunker and enter, successfully hitting Ramanujan with a bullet near the stomach. Ashok(Virat's dad) enters the bunker and finds Ramanujan and the kids. Ramanujan gives the wave disruptor technology to Ashok and tells him to take the children and Benny to somewhere safe. Ashok and the kids escape, while Ramanujan self-destructs the bunker killing himself. Outside the bunker, an armored Navaar arrives, looking like some supervillain in a red and black metal armor. Super V battles Navaar and is winning, until Navaar releases some grenades. Super V dodges them and hits Navaar. However, Navaar freezes Super V's knee. Ashok, in an attempt to save Virat, runs out of the forest to get Navaar's attention. Navaar throws him to the floor and crushes the wave disruptor drive. Super V tries to attack Navaar but has a knee frozen again. As Super V yells in pain, Navaar steps on Ashok killing him, thinking he is Ramanujan. | |||||
| 10 | "To be or not to be" | Puneet Sira |
| 12 January 2020 | |
| 11 | "The legacy" | Gautmik |
| 19 January 2020 | |
| 12 | "The hero rises again" | Puneet Sira |
| 26 January 2020[4] | |
Release
The series premiered simultaneously on 5 November 2019 across five Star India owned networks - Disney Channel India, Marvel HQ, Star Sports and Star Plus as well as streaming service Hotstar.[5] In North America it was streamed exclusively on Hotstar USA, and in the United Kingdom the series was aired on Star Plus UK.[6] The series is dubbed into Bengali and broadcast on Star Jalsha.
References
- "Promo of Virat Kohli as Superhero Super V Released, Watch Here". News 18. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
- "Promo of Virat Kohli as Superhero Super V Released, Watch Here". www.news18.com.
- Bhalerao, Sarang (8 November 2019). "Can't wait to see @imVkohli as #SuperV! I'm watching it this Sunday at 9 AM on the Star Network, Disney, and Hotstar!pic.twitter.com/FbMkISz15Z".
- "'Super V' season one finale episode to air/stream on 26 Jan". 25 January 2020.
- "First ten episodes of 'Super V' grab 150 mn viewership". Indian Television Dot Com. 26 January 2020.
- Baddhan, Raj (1 November 2019). "Star Plus UK to premiere Virat Kohli series on his birthday".
