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From Yahoo;
"India's Oscar Entry Inspires First Bollywood Comic
Fri Feb 8, 9:43 AM ET
BOMBAY (Reuters) - Bollywood hit "Lagaan," which took India by storm and was nominated as the country's entry at this year's Oscar awards, was launched on Friday as the first film-based comic.
The 41-page English comic captures in colorful detail the quirky nineteenth century Indian peasants who took on British colonial oppressors in a cricket match to waive a punitive tax.
"As a child I read Superman, Tarzan and other comics. So I was really excited to see myself in a comic. It's a great thrill," Aamir Khan, hero of "Lagaan," told reporters at the launch of the comic.
Published by Egmont Imagination India Limited, licensee of Walt Disney and Barbie books, "Lagaan" has stuck to the film story translating some of the dialogues verbatim.
"This is the first ever film-based comic book of Bollywood," said Uday Mathur, managing director of Egmont.
Though movie-related memorabilia and merchandise is common in Hollywood, Indian movies have seen no such trend -- until "Lagaan."
Now kids have a range of "Lagaan" products, made by Egmont, for amusement including a table cricket game, mask book and magic coloring book."
source: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm....ic_dc_2
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