Source: getahead.rediff.com
INDIA, February, 24, 2010: Karan Vir is 27 years old. In an interview, the young entrepreneur explains how he plans to change the face of the India comic book industry forever and, somewhat ostentatiously, declares that he wants to get an Oscar for India sometime soon. “I grew up listening to a lot of stories from the Indian epics from Amar Chitra Katha comics as well as the Lord of the Rings. Somewhere along the way the syntax of these tales began to enamour me. I learned to imagine and narrate tales myself,” says Vir.
His visiting card calls him a visionary and tells you that the man who it belongs to runs a comic book company called Vimanika. The Mumbai-based company has been in the business for about two years now and recently won the Golden Cursor Animation express CNBC TV18 Best Comics award for 2009.
“The eventual plan is to get a movie based on one of our comics, a movie that will be something like Avatar and get the Oscar for India,” says Vir.