Kids’ corner
Kids’ corner
Food fetish
Starting Monday, Cartoon Network introduces the Hindi version of its last year’s top series on American TV, Chowder, in India.
The head chef is called Mung Daal (Tadka Laal in Hindi), his wife Truffles (Khuskhus in Hindi) and everything in the town has something to do with food.
One loss in the Hindi version is the lack of variety in names. The English series has dishes from across the world but the Hindi adaptation restricts itself to using mostly Indian food items. So Shnitzel (a type of cutlet in Israel and Turkey) has become Ragda (as in Ragda Patties), Truffles becomes Khuskhus etc.
The pilot episode Ice Cream Baba intended to be educative, but with its gross-out action (the episode is about how over-eating ice-cream is harmful for health) doesn’t capture the imagination. The adaptations of the pun and metafictional references don’t have the same sophistication as the original English version. The voiceover in Ice Cream Baba is almost annoying with its incessant chant of Bollywood dialogues.
Adults tuning in to watch the show must be warned that there is too much vomit and spit, and only children will be able to appreciate it.
Chowder airs on Cartoon Network at 4pm from Monday to Thursday.
Blessy Augustine
Manga in colour
While poring over the Buddha series drawn by Osamu Tezuka, Srikrishna understood that the most expressive parts of the Manga comic characters are the eyes. “The features of girls are softer with large almond eyes. The hair is always long," she says. She is specifically interested in the Manga sub-genre ‘Shojo’ featuring young girls and women, where the stories have a hint of romance and lesser action. “When they do have action, it’s the girl who’s doing the fighting," adds Srikrishna who has named one of her works Girl Power.
Ragini Srikrishna’s works are exhibited at the Oxford Bookstore, 5th Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore, until 18 July.
Pavitra Jayaraman
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