In this burgeoning world that is slowly coming up of Indian superhero universes, behold, there is a new one that's being added.
I am Vishwas Mudgal and I'm the creator of VMU, Indian Superhero Universe.
Today we are launching it amongst all of you.
Welcome to the brand new episode of the Vishwas Mudgal show.
Today I have some really exciting news for you.
We have launched India's very own superhero universe called the VMU.
This has been in the making for the last 10 years and I am super excited to bring this whole format to you guys.
And it's my humble attempt to put the Indian superhero on a global map.
We are proud of this whole endeavour and with this we will be bringing a series of works starting from movies, web series, animations, comics and a whole lot of stuff for you guys in the coming years.
And I'm going to talk about why I started this and how I started this and a lot more exciting stuff just after this break.
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Today we are going to start with a very simple question.
What comes to your mind when you think about a superhero?
I'm not sure about you but when I think about a superhero, what comes to my mind is Superman, Batman, Iron Man and all those DC and then Marvel characters from the Hollywood.
And this is what is happening in the last few decades.
We have been super influenced by these characters that have been flooded by the Hollywood industry.
But there is a very very important observation to be made if you look deeper from India's perspective.
India has always been a land of storytellers.
The Puranas, the epics that we have been reading, the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and the hundred other stories out there that are there.
The panchatantra stories and the Puranas, the epics, the stories of Shiva, of Rama, Krishna and a lot of those amazing superheroes who are fighting the super villains and the battle between the good and the evil.
They have fascinated us for thousands of years.
In short, we are nothing but a land of superheroes in some sort.
And I think somewhere in the last few centuries, we have lost touch with our own stories, beliefs, the heroes and I think we stopped celebrating them.
And for me, this has been a very personal project.
This has been a very personal passion.
And that passion started when I realized that I need to write a book about Kalki as a superhero.
In 2018, this book was launched.
The Age of Kalki trilogy's first episode.
That was the last Avatar.
And with this book started the whole saga of creating the true Indian superhero.
In the Indian ecosystem, not only because it is related to mythology, but also with our culture, our ethos.
And I realized that when the audience got back to me and they said, wow, I mean, this is the kind of superhero we would like to see.
I realized that there is much more in store for us here.
We need to develop this into a universe and that's where the VMU superhero universe was conceptualized.
And it's taken me about 10 years to actually come to this point where we have actually enormous list right now.
And it is my humble attempt to create a studio which is going to create a number of works.
We have some really talented minds with us who are going to go deep into the ecosystem here.
The stories, the characters, what has influenced us historically, what is influencing us now.
And create those characters and those action movies or those animation series that are going to be truly outstanding.
And that is going to be there for the world to see and to enjoy the Indian superheroes, true Indian superheroes.
That is our humble attempt.
And this was launched in the Comic Con in Bangalore to a roaring audience.
We gave the first glimpse of this Indian superhero universe, the VMU.
And I would like all of you guys to take a look at this on YouTube.
Our videos are on YouTube and we want to also play this right after this break right now.
So take a look at this first glimpse of VMU.
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Today, if you ask me where can you go and take a look at VMU Superhero Universe, you can log on to www.vmusuperheroes.com.
Go to vmusuperheroes.com and take a look at our universe.
It's a very immersive website.
You can see the character sketches, you can see the characters in live action actually.
How they look, what they do, what kind of powers they have got, what kind of back stories they have got.
But apart from the characters, we also have a lot of these elements of our universe.
And these are basically clans and groups that are there that have actually been created in such a way that they are fascinating and they're very realistic at the same time.
So before we talk about the characters, I would like to talk about a few of these clans.
Okay, so which are really, really important for the VMU mythology.
Is that what we call it a VMU mythology.
So take a look at some of these key things.
The first thing we're going to talk about is the Rudra's Secret Society.
The Rudra's has been formed thousands of years ago.
It is a prehistoric, ancient Indian secret society that has been formed to protect the earth from apocalyptic situations.
But also they are here to protect the scripture of gods.
And the scripture of gods is nothing but a set of nine scriptures or epics or we can say Puranas.
So basically that have been created that has got absolute knowledge, knowledge that is something that is unbelievable for even the current generation.
This has been created thousands of years ago.
And why it has been created and how it has been created for that, we're going to come up with a series of books and series of works which you can immerse into that whole universe of who are Rudras and why they were created.
That's exactly it's very very exciting stories.
Love that you know if you guys have to go and take a look at it on vmusuperheroes.com or you can follow us on Instagram at vmusuperheroes.
Take a look at our YouTube channel as well.
We have a lot of videos coming up.
This will give you a glimpse of Rudras and the whole universe of Rudras.
And if you look at vmu as such, the whole universe is built on top of Rudras and the Rudras would have been created by Earth's first superhero.
His name is Rudraman and Rudraman is going to be launched early next year.
The first book of Rudraman is going to be launched early next year.
Take a look at it.
And it's a super exciting book which I have come up with.
And Rudraman who creates Rudras as the secret society.
It's like a prehistoric book.
It's set in the era of about 10,000 BC.
That's the timeline we're looking at.
And it's a beautiful landscape.
It's out of the world story basically that I would like everybody to look at.
And it's going to come early next year.
So that is Rudras for you.
That is the first one we're talking about.
Let's talk about the Invisible Hand.
It's a shadow terrorist organization.
A mercenary cult that came out in the era of Jangees Khan.
And legend has it that whenever Jangees Khan wanted to create some havoc around the world or he wanted to do some dirty stuff where nobody else could have done it,
he would send the Invisible Hand to get things done and they always did the job for him.
And in the book, The Last Avatar, they practically blow up the entire parliament of India.
And they basically kill the Indian Prime Minister and try to instate a dictator in India.
And this sinister Invisible Hand is basically responsible for taking earth into a chaos, making earth into a slave ecosystem.
That's what they want to do.
And it's something that you guys should take a look at, especially read them in the Age of Kalki series.
But also check out what other plans they have got.
Take a look at vmusuperheroes.com or follow us on Instagram.
Very, very fascinating story.
Invisible Hand that has been headed by Master Zar.
Next up, let's talk about the White Knights.
The White Knights are a new species altogether.
They are what we call as Homo Supernos.
So what is Homo Supernos?
Homo Supernos is a genetically created species.
They are superior to human beings because they have been genetically modified to have superhuman abilities like strength, energy, power, even intelligence, reflexes.
They heal faster. They can move faster. They age slower.
Everything is like super, right?
And they are called the White Knights.
And the first two Homo Supernos were Shen and Nushen.
They were the twins that were created.
And Nushen is one of our favorite superhero characters that we have created.
And you can see how she was created in the book The Last Avatar, The Age of Kalki Triology.
And there's a whole chapter dedicated to the origins of the Homo Supernos.
It's like a birth of a new species.
And they always say the birth of the new species is almost always chaotic and tumultuous and painful.
And her origins also were very, very painful.
But she is our favorite character, one of our favorite characters.
You should see how she looks.
She is called the Goddess and she has got these superhuman abilities and superhuman beauty.
Next up, I'm going to be talking about the Mech-Vanar Sena.
This is one of my favorite concepts that I created.
And you know, the whole point of creating Vanaroids was to have the machines,
super intelligent machines that are in the form of Vanars.
And Vanars were basically one of the protectors of the ancient times in India,
ancient India. And you know, that's a concept that has come from there.
And whenever I looked at it, if that Vanar Sena should have existed right now,
how would it look like? What would be the form it would take?
And that's when it occurred to me that it could be basically a Mech-Vanar Sena,
something that is totally built with the modern technology.
They'll have these gadgets and they'll have these amazing helmets.
And they will be like the Vanaroids of all shapes and sizes.
Some will be huge, like, you know, as big as a mountain.
Some will be so small. Some will be like tiny.
Some will have, you know, different kind of agility, different multipurpose kind of machines.
So this Mech-Vanar Sena comprises of these machines called Vanaroids.
And this is one of the renders of the Vanaroids.
If you can see on the cover of my book, The Last Avatar, super excited.
So this is not the actual, you know, say a person,
but it is nothing but like a machine that is like a humanoid machine,
which basically has been built in the form of the Vanars, the ancient, you know,
the protectors of India. And that's how I have taken it out.
And now the Mech-Vanar Sena has been created by none other than our superhero Kalki,
who is Kalki the Destroyer.
And he creates it because he has created this amazing group called the Astras.
And he's like this teenage geek.
And he tries to create these machines to protect India and the borders of India.
And then these machines one day, they stand up to the world and they basically stun everybody
the way they come up and people have never seen them before and the way it comes across.
So I think you should take a look at the book for sure.
And also our website and the stories of Vanaroids are just about to kickstart.
There are a number of works that we have, you know, for the Vanaroids and the Mech-Vanir Sena.
We spoke in the last section, we spoke about how the universe, the clans and the secret societies
the exciting and thrilling world of VMU.
And the characters are even more fascinating.
And the first character is none other than Kalki.
And if you look at the way we have created Kalki, it is in flesh and blood.
Okay. So if you look at the world right now, the way I have created the whole world is that of a Kaliuk.
So Kaliuk is like where the societal fabric is breaking down, the democratic values are breaking down
and terrorist organizations are taking over and lot of things are happening, you know, how things are in the age of Kaliuk.
Everything is like going to dogs basically.
And then in that time, there is one person who has to come up, who has to rise and who has to protect the world.
He has to destroy everything to recreate it.
And that person is Kalki.
And the way I have created the character is completely realistic.
Somebody who is like just like you and me and how that person becomes a person who has to protect everybody.
That is the journey that we are capturing in the VMU superhero universe.
And also the first book of the whole universe, the last avatar, Age of Kalki series.
You should take a look at it. That gives you a glimpse of how Kalki's origins were.
It, I mean, I don't know. It's like it starts out as a story that is like an underdog story.
And nobody is there to root for him.
He's basically an orphan. And how an orphan ends up becoming the protector of India, that is this book.
This is a book that is like it's going to make your like hair like stand every time you turn a page.
You're like, oh my God, this is something that this character is something that, you know, I want to see.
I want to read about. So take a look at this book.
And that is Kalki for you. And we have just come to the first book.
If you're not read this book, go to Amazon and pick up this book right now.
Read the book and let me know how you find it.
And also the second and third book are coming up shortly.
OK, and that brings a next character for us.
See, the way I have envisioned this, OK, this whole thing that the Kalki comes up is because of this secret society called the Rudras, which I spoke about.
And everything that has to be done by Kalki is because the work that has been done by the ancestors, the heroes of Indian ancient society, you know, what I see the scholars, the sadhus, the sages and the munis that they were there in the ancient prehistoric India.
They had created this unbelievable wealth of knowledge that the kind of society that we have got, we had got in India, the Indus Valley and the entire Indian ecosystem here, subcontinent, was that it was very, very superior.
And it was lost in the time somewhere. But it was there.
And India was the most advanced ecosystem, civilization in the world, and it had created knowledge that was centuries ahead, centuries ahead.
And that is what we have captured in the Rudras, the scripture of gods.
It has got that knowledge in that.
So the next character that we're going to bring is Rudraman.
Rudraman is Earth's first superhero and we're going to be launching him in the next book that is coming up in 2024.
So that is the next character. Take a look at how he looks on our website.
Of course, on YouTube, if you're watching this on YouTube, you can take a look at how the character looks like right now.
But if you're listening to this on any of the podcast channels like Spotify or Apple Podcast, log on to our YouTube and take a look at our videos and like our videos, comment on our videos and let us know how you find it.
Rudraman is going to be one of the most amazing characters that we're going to be launching early next year.
Take a look at it right now.
So with that, we're going to be coming up with the next character.
And of course, we have planned a lot of characters.
We have planned about 20 to 30 characters in the next few years we want to launch.
And these are going to be different characters.
Not all of them are related to mythology or something.
It's not about that. It's about creating these characters very rooted in Indian ecosystem, even that are present right now.
OK, so one of the characters which is super I am super excited is going to be this ethical hacker who is going to be protecting India's ecosystem, digital infrastructure.
We are launching that as well.
And some of the regional characters we're launching, some of the characters which are that like say which are protecting the space frontier.
We're launching those things.
So we are launching a lot of these superheroes that are very, very real and something that you can correlate with.
And some of them are super fun and super comedy comic as well.
It's not about just dark characters, but we have like fun characters and teenage characters and male, female machines, monsters.
We have everything lined up for you.
So follow V.M.U. superheroes.
Right. And I was talking about the last character that I'm going to be talking about today.
That is one of my favorite characters.
And that's called the Yodha girl.
The Yodha girl.
It's it's like I'm super, super excited.
I'm looking forward to this whole format that we created for it.
We have the whole story lined up and it is about a rebel teenager.
And she's 18, just turned 18 and she's flunked her 12th grade exams.
And she doesn't know how to face her parents.
And she just wants to run away from home.
And she she just doesn't have the face to show at home.
And accidentally, she ends up in the Rudras Superhero University.
And she accidentally gets selected to be in this program called the Immortal Yodda program.
Of course, immortal Yodda's means those are these Yoda's who death even cannot defeat.
Not even death can defeat them.
OK, so how do you get them?
So she's a teenager. She's never even picked up a sword or like a weapon or anything in her life.
She is this character. She is super cute.
And she's like she's all dreamy.
And all of that, she's like this delicate darling at her home.
They call her Phool Kumari basically.
So how Phool Kumari ends up becoming a immortal Yodda.
That is a whole transition.
And there's like a super amazing, you know, Superhero University between and the whole Academy that is there in the immortal Yodha program.
It's beautiful and love for you guys to take a look at it.
We're going to be launching that very, very soon.
And that's just a bit of what we're trying to accomplish with the VMU.
All right. So that brings us to the end of this episode.
I love talking about VMU, all the characters, about the clans.
And please take a look at VMU Superheroes dot com and follow us on Instagram and YouTube.
That is at VMU Superheroes.
And I would love to hear your feedback.
And what do you think about the whole characters?
Also, I'll be back next week with yet another amazing episode where we're going to talk about a few amazing stories as well.
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