Gattu Tales hits the stands

Gattu Tales, a set of comic books based on television actor Deven Bhojani, has hit the stands across India. Orient BlackSwan, in association with Star TV and BookBox, has launched the comic books.

The main character, Gattu, is based on the character from Baa Bahoo Aur Baby, a Hindi TV programme broadcast on Star Plus. Gattu is one of the lead characters in the show which is immensely popular with children. The animated version of the stories is available in a CD along with the 'Storytellers' books distributed by Orient BlackSwan.

Speaking to Galatta.com, Nirav Shah, COO, BookBox, shared, "BookBox has by licensing the character Gattu from Star TV, produced a series of 5 animated stories. We have been involved in this initiative right from the stage of story writing, artwork creation, narration and animation of the content for various platforms like Internet, computers, TVs and mobile phones."

BookBox has made 5 animated stories based on Gattu & Baa till now. These stories are available as Internet downloads, print books, CD-ROM/VCD and mobile phone content.

The makers intend to come out with more stories on Gattu as well as other characters from Star TV along with the plans to bring out comics based on original stories.

 Courtesy: Bollywood Hungama