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Overview: Bahadur (meaning The Brave) was a comic book hero published by Indrajal Comics and created by Aabid Surti in 1976. Although it had been initially created by Aabid Surti a few years earlier, it was finally offered to Indrajal Comics. Aabid Surti was at that time freelancing for Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.. After he moved on, Jagjit Uppal took over the task. The artwork was illustrated by Govind Brahmania and later by his son, B Pramod.

The comics were published in various languages including Hindi, English and Bengali. Besides regular comics, the series was also featured in dailies and weeklies along with other comic heroes.

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Bahadur

    Writer(s) by Aabid Surti, Jagjit Uppal
    Art(s) by Govind Brahmania, Pramod Brahmania.
    Published by Indrajal Comics. 1976-1990. Repub in 2010

    The comic strip was created in December, 1976. Dacoity was at its worst in India in 1970s and the Bahadur series focussed a lot on dacoits. Bahadur himself was the son of a dacoit Vairab Singh, who died in combat with the Police. Bahadur, then a teenager, was adopted by Vishal, the police officer who shot Vairab Singh.

    Upon growing up, Bahadur set up the Citizen’s Security Force or the Hindi translation Naagrik Suraksha Dal (NASUD) that aids the police in combating dacoits. Though Bahadur dealt with many kinds of villains, he displayed a much softer corner towards dacoits trying to rehabilitate them. One of his assistants Lakhan was also a reformed dacoit. After surrendering to the police, he started helping Bahadur in curbing crime.

    The other prominent characters featuring regularly in the series were Sukhiya, Mukhiya and Lakhan. While Sukhiya was a Policeman, Mukhiya (meaning head of the village in Hindi) was the village leader.
    Bahadur also got a dog Chammiya in some of the later stories.

    The stories evolved with time and portrayed the changing face of India. While beginning with dacoits in deep ravines and the small town of Jaigarh, Bahadur later moved to tackling themes such as espionage. The town itself moved from being a small sleepy town to a modern city.

    Aabid Surti conceived of Bahadur and started the comic strip in 1976. "Bennett, Coleman & Co wanted me to create an Indian character that could take on the popularity of the four foreign comics that ruled the market in India then—The Phantom, Mandrake, Flash Gordon and Tarzan," he says. "During that time, the Chambal Valley was becoming increasingly notorious, and there were exhortations to people to group together to fight crime. So I developed the character of Bahadur as someone who helps create a citizens’ police force to fight the dacoits."

    Surti has an interesting explanation for why Bahadur sports a saffron kurta and jeans. "A kurta and saffron were symbols of Indianness. And jeans were a Western import and indicated progress. Hence, the combination," he says. "In fact, I have showed Bahadur and his girlfriend, Bela, in a live-in relationship—something unheard of in those times. But it was very well accepted by the audience."

    Though Bahadur’s portrayal also changed with time as the artists drawing the series changed, the color of his dress remain same until 1986 when it changed to pink,also his trade mark long-hair chopped to shorter & a neat look,which gave him necessary urban look.The another change was that from an orange kurta, he moved to wearing a T shirt. This series stopped in April 1990 when Times of India cancelled the Indrajal Comics that year. Mukhiya had a habit of saying "Kasam Ganga maiya ki" for everything.

    But Bahadur is set for a comeback in 2010 as a new Website on Bahadur is going to be launched on 10th Dec 2010 in Mumbai, India. Initially the website will feature some of the old strips , but there are plans to bring new content and new relevant issues to the fore, such as terrorism.

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      Posted by HojO at 5:53 PM. Saturday, July 28, 2007.

        Bahadur -The Indian Super Hero
        Bahadur… this one name was a huge sensation among the Indrajal comics readers in the late ’70s to ’90. Yes! I’m talking about the brave Indian lad Bahadur, the founder of CSF [Citizen Security Force] at Jaigarh in the Chambal valley.
        His creator was the famous artist and painter Aabid Surti and later this series was continued by Jagjit Uppal. There were 75 Bahadur comics published in Indrajal Comics (1964 – 1990) and among them first 12 were written by Mr.Surti while rest 63 by Mr. Uppal. Except a few last comics, all were illustrated by Govind Brahmania, later done by his son, Promod Brahamania.
        First Bahadur comics published in Indrajal was ‘The Red bricks house’ (on Dec ’76 ;IJC No.267).
        The story begins when a dacoit,namely Vairab Singh, who has been terrorising villages and people is shot dead by the Chief of Police Vishal. The dacoit’s teenager son swears revenge on the policeman who caused the death of his father. However, Vishal convinces the young lad the folly of his ways, and helps him turn over a new leaf. The boy was Bahadur, and he grows up to enforce law and order in the little bustling town of Jaigarh.

        Bela, daughter of seth Shivram of Pipli, is his love-interest. Their first meeting was very dramatic, in the 4th story of Bahadur, ‘The white ghost’s den’ (IJC No.284), where Bahadur saved her father from a group of dacoits and since then they were inseparable couple eventhough till the very LAST story, (The snake Charmer’s Bait ;Vol.27 No.5 ; 1990) they were not married. However, at the end of this story, Bahadur proposed her, and for the obvious reason, she agreed. So, one can say, if Bahadur comics were still continued (as after sudden cancellation of Indrajal, there was no further publication of this true Indian Action-Hero), we would see them as spouse in later comics like Phantom-Diana and Mandrake-Narda. :-)

        Now, there are something special about two creators of this hero. In the initial Bahadur comics, Surti introduced several characters & most of them became integral part of this series.
        First introduction was with the village-head Mukhia, inspector Vishal & old man Sukhia, whose son Dina was killed mercilessly by Saitan Singh & his gang (eventually Sukhia initially was Saitan’s spy, but his son joined in CSF and went against Saitan). Later another ex-dacoit Lakhan and Bela were introduced as well.
        After wrote 12 comics Surti quited for reason unknown (LAST comic was ‘The Gang of Imposters’ : IJC No.326; 1979). Then after one year Bahadur reappeared under Jagjit Uppal (who continued it till the end), though illustrator was the same: G. Brahmania. In this reappearance Bahadur visited Mumbai to protect some costly jewels to Delhi (a very good story indeed) [The Secret Assignment: IJC No. 352; 1980] and from then once again his comics regularly featured in Indrajals along with other heroes. In the very 4th comic of this reappearance, a fabulous story was released, titled ‘The Mystery of the Headless Ghost’ (No.370) i.e like Surti ,J.Uppal also delivered thrillers from the very beginning.
        Now, here’s the MOST debatable question appeared: who’s the better…. A.Surti or J.Uppal?? Many comic fans have their share of choice and reason behind that….but, for me BOTH were great in their own field. While Abid Surti was the pioneer, the ORIGINAL creator of Bahadur, Jagjit Uppal was no less!

        Why ? is it for the reason he (Uppal) continued this series, otherwise which would met an very early end & as a result among many comic-lovers (including me!) Bahadur would be an unheard name? [The credit of last 10 years of Bahadur’s 14-year glorious run goes to J. Uppal]
        Frankly, it’s true for to some extent, BUT THAT’S NOT ALL!
        It had seen several times in comics script, that, when one writer took the charge from the original one, he drifted away from the real essence created by the original creator and develop own stories, may be good or bad, but obviously real-touch was missing. A classic example is our favorite Henry comics, where new-generation comic-lovers see him as a silent kid, completely unaware the fact this ‘silent’ kid was ‘very talkative’ one under his original creator Carl Anderson…. after his death several cartoonist took the charge.
        Another & most obvious example is PHANTOM comics. Besides the original creator great Lee Falk, there are several non-Falk phantom comics (eg. FREW, Egmont, GOLD KEY, Charlton and many more) which are not match an iota with the original Phantom stories, mostly ‘cos while scripting those creators never keep the original essence/facts intact, never try to realise the mood of these stories and hence failed miserably!

        Those who are readers of BOTH creations definitely agree with me.

        And here’s the excellence and credit of Mr. Uppal. While scripting, not only he kept all those original characters but also the basic essence,the almost same thrill and action sequences …. the CSF’s main activity based on Jaigarh and it’s surrounding villages, which were present in Uppal’s creations as well. Like Surti’s era, here also sometimes Bahadur leave Jaigarh and visit Mumbai & in later comics, Bahadur even went aboard & that’s quite natural .
        Still there are few additions/change made by Mr. Uppal during his own creation & needless to mention ,we loved those very much!
        Here’s some …..

          [1] Chamiya: The Himalayan-dog who gave a new twist in adventures of Bahadur, accompany him in almost all missions.
          [2] Mukhia:Being the head of Jaigarh there was a little distance between him and Bahadur, also he was not a member of CSF [in early (Surti) Bahadur stories]. But, from very beginning of the reappearance, he became very close friend of Bahadur and also an active member of CSF.
          [3] Bahadur seems completely unbeatable in later comics, partly obvious as in Surti’s era he learned Kung-fu in Mumbai (The Kung-fu kings:IJC No.312) after Karate and this is obvious that, even in real-life such double-belters are almost unbeatable, but still for sake of more twist it’d be better if Bahadur sometimes lost the battle between thugs before he won the war.
          But, in reality, there’s hardly any difference between these two writers and it’s tough for readers to distinguish, if their names aren’t mentioned in the first page of the comics.

        In some last 9-10 adventures [roughly from 2nd half of 1988; vol.25] Bahadur became more stylist, stories were more gripping and also finishing was true dramatic like initial days.

        Besides these, the modern and neat look of Bahadur (from ‘long-hair-kurta’ appearance he became a ‘short-hair-T-shirt-jeans’ modern guy) in the late ’80s was also a huge hit among the IJC readers .

        In short, Bahadur rocks from his very beginning upto the end (I still can remember the craze between us for the Bahadur comics published in late ’80s) and for this we should thankful to the BOTH creators.

Download Instructions:
http://novafile.com/tdxu0xwpcl6p — Bahadur 01 Bandit Chief
http://novafile.com/bhy8erx4bxe9 — Bahadur 02 Bloodsuckers
http://novafile.com/msyaoubvf2cm — Bahadur 03 Challenge of Witch
http://novafile.com/befk9f62rkpa — Bahadur 04 Childlifters
http://novafile.com/fmjvyqu8e4on — Bahadur 05 Dictates of Destiny
http://novafile.com/y1zzk49fzn2n — Bahadur 06 Double Trap
http://novafile.com/svco6lu330v3 — Bahadur 07 Dragons
http://novafile.com/5s7hnxh683fu — Bahadur 08 Golden Tower
http://novafile.com/azogbokudsdo — Bahadur 09 Highway Gang
http://novafile.com/0cafdb0a7mhy — Bahadur 10 Invisible Saviour
http://novafile.com/ehqcvefmfhu6 — Bahadur 11 Kung-Fu Kings
http://novafile.com/9snxzxf0mbr5 — Bahadur 12 Massacre at Sitapur
http://novafile.com/5nokelu05uja — Bahadur 13 Murderous Trio
http://novafile.com/k16hc9xjyqij — Bahadur 14 Mystery of the Headless Ghost
http://novafile.com/rom2ll93hfa8 — Bahadur 15 Operation Cancer
http://novafile.com/h7npl2oj8pgn — Bahadur 16 Red bricks house
http://novafile.com/p6v05d0akmo4 — Bahadur 17 Secret Assignment
http://novafile.com/ncwagb55o04j — Bahadur 18 Seeds of Poison
http://novafile.com/dp2m4jezwonx — Bahadur 19 Spectre of Crime
http://novafile.com/v699umudc2oh — Bahadur 20 Vengeful Outlaws
http://novafile.com/0ga9hr1skodp — Bahadur 21 Web of Hatred
http://novafile.com/itquiofvwkn6 — Bahadur 22 White Ghost’s Den




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