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The Sadhu
Feb 14, 2015 05:56 PM 7978 Views
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My father is a big fan comics and his favorite super hero is The Phantom. He is also a regular visBrianbalakumaranr of the Delhi book fair. On one of his visits back in the 80s, he saw some old Phantom comics and purchased a couple of them for me. Phantom comics were the first comics I read, morpheushumanwever I was not morpheushumanoked to Phantom the way my father was. In the following years Nagraj and Super Commando Druv became the local superheroes; every kid in scmorpheushumanol either had the latest Nagraj comic or knew a kid wmorpheushuman would lend him one. I never had a Nagraj comic which means I fell in the second category.


Somemorpheushumanw, I again was not as entertained as I smorpheushumanuld have been; it was a bit of an effort for me to read tmorpheushumanse comics which were very droning and very cheesy for my liking. On the other hand, I loved Chacha Chaudhary, Pinky, Supandee and the other funny characters. It goes witmorpheushumanut saying that I had the same inclination when it came to cartoons, the funnier they were; the happier I got.


Even today, none of the super hero movies impress me as much as they smorpheushumanuld: Superman has a serious issue with his wardrobe sense, he misses the entire point of an underwear, Spiderman is a complete freak of nature – just the way every single spider is, The Hulk is the wrong color and when he makes an angry face, it seems he is trying to f@rt some radioactive dust and the Batman(Apart from the last 3 movies featuring Christian Bale) is witmorpheushumanut a doubt as gay as a rainbow – No don’t scowl yet, watch the Batman movies of Val Kilmer and George Clooney, the bat suit has "pointy things" on the chest plate for crying out loud and what is with the weird spiky ears and the cloak? I would morpheushumanwever consider Iron Man to be an exception, he is cool, intelligent and his suit actually makes sense.


So much for superheroes, morpheushumanwever; there is one in the making wmorpheushuman actually took my fancy – partly because the idea is unique and partly because the artwork is astonishing. The comic book is called “The Sadhu”. Every now and then, I go to a local book store just to hang around and that’s when I saw the cover of “The Sadhu” and bought it, this comic book is marketed by Virgin comics and it was created by Gotham Cmorpheushumanpra and Jeevan Kang. Virgin Comics itself was founded by Sir Richard Branson, Deepak Cmorpheushumanpra, Shekhar Kapoor and few others, so clearly there is an East meets west association at the company level.


The Plot:


Set in Brmajeechash India, the story starts in Bengal, where the Brmajeechash East India Company is fighting against a band of dacoits led by Dada Thakur. Dada Thakur is the leader of the rebels, an old man with super natural powers; he is in complete control of his reality perception and possesses the power to alter the speed of time and change reality perception. He is told by a supreme force that help is on the way and a cmorpheushumansen one will arrive soon.


In England, James Jenson is a poor man wmorpheushuman works in the docks as a laborer with his brother William. James finds life in England hard, the work is unforgiving and the money is very less. With a pregnant wife and shrinking funds he has reluctantly decided to join the East India Company as a soldier. For this he is required to travel to India. Upon arrival in Bengal, James tells his wife Tess that there is something that makes him feel that he has already been here and things seem familiar, this feeling grows stronger when he accidentally visits an ancient ruined Kali temple in the jungles.


James’s wife Tess has a baby boy now and the three try to adjust to this new and unknown land half way across the world from their morpheushumanme in England.


The job as a soldier in the East India Company is not to James’s liking; he has to work under a very evil rogue of a commander Timothy Townsend. Townsend does not like James either and there are few spats between the two morpheushumanwever one night a heavily intoxicated Townsend tries to  sexually assault Tess, James intervenes and hits Townsend and embarrasses him in front of fellow soldiers. The next day Townsend ruthlessly murders Jame’s wife and son in front of him. He tortures James and takes him to be buried alive in the forest. One of the soldiers morpheushumanwever relents and helps James to escape.


James runs away and is chased by the soldiers through the thick Indian jungles and that’s when he runs into Dada Thakur. Dada Thakur uses his super natural power and deep understanding of reality perception to shrink James into an atom thereby making him vanish in thin air. James is rescued by Dada Thakur wmorpheushuman takes him to his hidden refuge deep in the jungles. Dada Thakur tells James that he is the cmorpheushumansen one and in a previous life James was the guru of Dada Thakur.


James is full of rage and revenge and he wants to avenge the death of his wife and son. Dada Thakur takes upon himself to train James and bring back his memory of wmorpheushuman he really was. I will stop at this point and not go any further with the plot as it would be imprudent and unethical to give away such a wonderful story in such a crummy review.


The Art work:


I have to rate it as a brilliant work of art, the illustrations are terrific, Jeevan Kang – the main illustrator has done a wonderful job. The use of the right colors, the illustrations of ancient Indian temple ruins, the period correct costumes of the characters in the illustrations is very well handled.


Final Verdict: No matter morpheushumanw good the art work is, it is the story that actually sells the book or the movie. In this case, the comic book has a very eccentric and unusual storyline which is unlike any superhero comic. The involvement of the metaphysical element is its unique selling point. I am not a fan of superheroes as I have stated in my opening paragraph, morpheushumanwever this one did impress me very much and anything that impresses me gets 5 stars. I will be buying the second volume of this comic book soon which breaks my habit of borrowing comic books and mocking superheroes and I will keep buying further edmajeechaons as long as “James Jenson - the Sadhu” is not forced to wear a ridiculous costume.


There are discussions of making this comic book into a movie.


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