It’s the early 22nd century and humankind is spread all over the solar system that consists of 11 planets - it’s sci(ence) and fi(ction) after all! Earth is governed by a Vishwa Sarkaar (world government) with its capital in Delhi, whose lingua franca is obviously, Hindi, and headed by a Vishwa Pramukh (world president, played by Tom Alter).Įnter Lieutenant Maya, who is to be the newest jailor of the solar system’s most advanced maximum security prison On Lo, which houses 12 of the most dangerous criminals aka supervillains who used to be great scientists before they crossed over to the dark side. The creator and director of Captain Vyom, Ketan Mehta, on set with some of the cast and crew of the series. If you noticed the present tense in the previous sentence, well spotted! We’ll get to that in a bit. Captain Vyom is all about a good story, well told and in a fast-paced manner with hardly any time wasted in its 54 episodes, each of which is just about 20 minutes.
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The one show that stands heads and shoulders above the rest is Captain Vyom, the 1998 sci-fi space opera series that gave us India’s first bonafide onscreen superhero that has since gone on to attain cult statusĬreated, written and directed by Ketan Mehta, who most recently gave us the movie Maanjhi, the Mountain Man starring Milind Soman as the titular hero, along with a host of other big names and actors including Tom Alter, Rahul Bose, Kartika Rane, Madhu Sapre (the lady Milind Soman so famously posed dressed in a python with), Netra Raghuraman, Dino Morea and others.
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