Wednesday, February 22, 2006
THE BRANSON-CHOPAK-KAPUR COMIC BOOK
One of the world's greatest stories, India's Ramayana, is being retold as a post-apocalyptic comic book, in 'Ramayana Reborn,' with an animated television spinoff for kids titled 'The Seven Sounds.' This is the brainchild of the newly launched Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation, an entertainment partnership between British billionaire Richard Branson, bestselling New Age author Deepak Chopra, film director Shekhar Kapur ('Bandit Queen' and 'Elizabeth') and India's leading licenser of comic books, Gotham Entertainment Group, which has brought 'Spider-Man' and 'X-Men' to Delhi and Mumbai, as well as launched a new Indian version of 'Spider-Man.'
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