Chacha Chaudhary is an Indian comic book series, created by cartoonist Pran Kumar Sharma.
[4] According to a Pran's Features press release, Indian children aged 10–13 years ranked Chacha Chaudhary as their most recognizable comic book character.
His household consists of his wife Bini Chachi, a faithful street dog called Rocket and a giant alien from Jupiter named Sabu.
He has an identical twin brother Chhajju Chaudhary, who visits him very rarely but whenever he arrives creates a funny situation.
Chacha Chaudhary enjoys eating watermelon with relish but mangoes are his weakness, and often takes off for a walk with Sabu and Rocket, whenever Chaachi nags him.
According to Pran, it was his pleasure to bring relief to the common man suppressed by various work loads of that era.
[5] Chacha Chaudhary is remarkably different from most other comic-book superheroes in that he is not a muscleman, nor does he have any extraordinary powers or modern gadgets.
Instead, he uses "a brain sharper than a needle and faster than a super-computer" (Chacha Chaudhary ka dimaag computer se bhi tez chalta hai[6][failed verification]), and a wooden stick, to fight evil-doers.
Chacha Chaudhary's characterization, like that of Pran's other characters, is around middle class typical Indian metro surroundings of the 1970s and 1980s, and it has kept evolving.
The usual villains are corrupt government officials, thieves, roadside goons & bullies, tricksters, cons and local thugs.
In a way Pran takes a whip at those problems but still maintains a happy-go-lucky feel with twinkling eyes and smiling faces.
Sabu is an alien from the planet Jupiter, always faithful to Chacha and provides the physical strength in time of need.
Sometimes he has been found to utter "Jai Bajrang Bali" which roughly translates to "Hail Hanuman" (a popular Hindu God).
Unlike Chacha, Sabu does not have much wisdom, intelligence or wits and mainly relies on his physical strength.
In certain stories, Sabu is also shown to be wise, but not like Chacha Chaudhary (like the one where he finds out about an escaped prisoner or the one where he throws his huge umbrella to save people from drowning).
Chacha Chaudhary's wife Bini is a dominating lady who is the boss of the house and occasionally battles the thieves with her belan (rolling pin).
She was actually an actress who decided to marry Chacha Chaudhary after he saved her life from goons who were threatening her to give them all her jewellery or they would kill her.
He was found as a stray dog and was adopted by Chacha, much to the dismay of his wife, who said that raising Sabu in itself was a handful for her.
He usually is shown to be a very unlucky person, falling into problems and danger which are either aimed at Chacha Chaudhary or are purely situational.
Many times, the comic situations in the stories have revolved around Tingu Master being very tiny, which makes others fail to notice him and accidentally perform actions like dumping him away with garbage.
Unknown to him, the house belonged to a great knowledgeable sage called Chakramacharya, who had developed a potion of immortality.
Raaka was put to sleep by some potion given by a saint from the Himalayas (who happened to be the Guru of Chakramacharya) and buried in the ocean on the first encounter.
Finally Chacha Chaudhary and Sabu buried him in an endless hole somewhere near a rocket launch site.