Shiva (TV series)

Shiva
Genre	Comedy; Action; Adventure
Written by	Niraj Vikram
Directed by	Suhas Kadav
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	267
Production
Production company(s)	Cosmos Entertainment; Maya Digital Studios; Viacom 18 Motion Pictures;
Distributor	Viacom 18
Release
Original network	Nickelodeon India (2015-2016), (2019–present); Nickelodeon Sonic (2016-2019)[1];
Audio format	Dolby Digital
Original release	9 November 2015 –; August 16, 2020

Shiva is an Indian animated action television series currently airing on Nickelodeon India.The series in produced by Cosmos-Maya and Viacom18.[2] It is one of the highest rated television kids show in India.[3]

Plot

Shiva is a young boy who lives with his grandparents in a fictional city named Vedas in India. He is a child superhero with supernatural powers. He faces a lot of villains who try to harm or damage people and property of his city. He beats villains. A policeman named Mr. Laddo Singh (LA-doo SING) who wanted to catch the criminals but gets in trouble is helped by Shiva. Shiva and his friends are always rewarded by the Indian Government for their utmost bravery.

Characters

Shiva is a heroic and very intelligent boy with great strength, bravery and intelligence. Shiva is nine years old kid. He has a super bike which can fly. He is very cordial with his friends also very good as a student. He saves the people of Vedas city from various threats and helps Mr. Ladoo Singh to make arrests. He lives with his grandparents. He is an expert as a fighter and titled as 'The Last Ninja Fighter' in an episode. But he never misuses his fighting talents. He has an extraordinary ability in cycling. He is also an engineer and adds different gadgets to it.he is also good in cooking.
Aditya also known as 'Adi' is a friend of Shiva. He speaks proudly about his bravery but is very scared. He joins with Shiva in all his adventures and is very loyal to his family and friends.He claims that he is regarded as a hero in his own village as Shiva in the city of Vedas.
Uday also known as 'Udi' is a friend of Shiva. He gets hungry when scared. He is also very strong. In every mystery he thinks that the hand before these problems are aliens.Sometimes Reva, another character of this cartoon, becomes angry with them because of his thought about aliens.
Reva is a friend of Shiva. She always supports Shiva and firmly believes that Shiva is powerful. She believes that Shiva can do anything. She is very intelligent. She is often saved by Shiva in times of danger. She becomes angry when Adi or Udi gets scared in simple matters.
Mr. Laddoo Singh is the Police Inspector of Vedas.He is honest but he is not much intelligent . In some episodes he claims that he is the guru of Shiva after the criminal is caught.He is always helped by Shiva in performing his duties.He likes reporters to take his interview. He tells being proud that he has caught the criminal with great heroism which leads him to danger sometimes . However, everybody knows that who is the real hero! He is one of the comedic character in this cartoon . He is very frightened inspector.
Pedaram is the assistant of Mr. Laddoo Singh.Sometimes when Laddo Singh tries to speak proudly, he leeks the truth.
Nanaji name is Ram Narayan Singh. He is Shiva's nana (maternal grandfather) and his main talent is singing Hindustani Classical music in which he sings his best that everyone thinks he sings worst. When he sings his voice makes everybody fly away as if a tornado has come. By this ability sometimes he helps Shiva.
Nani is the maternal grand mother of Shiva. She always tells Shiva not to fight with anyone.When Laddoo Singh comes to Shiva to ask for help he tries to get him out.But as seen in the episode namely The last ninja fighter, Nani told that she is never unwillingly to let Shiva fight against any criminal as Shiva is fighting for the betterment of people as well as for Vedas city. In an episode namely Shiva Ka Vadha criminals cheated with Nani and made him make a promise with Shiva of not fighting against anyone. However, she understood that at last and let him fight for the truth.
Swami is the neighbor of Shiva. He lives with his wife. He often becomes irritated hearing the songs sung by Nanaji.
Swami's wife is the neighbor of Shiva. She loves shopping everyday.
Bheem Singh works in the house of Shiva. He is a very thin person. He helps Nani in disturbing Nana while singing and in throwing Laddoo Singh out of their house when he comes to Shiva for help.
Neha is the niece of Swami. She has an extraordinary ability to detect any secret code, password etc. He is seen rarely in episodes like in The Secret Code. The criminals tried to kidnap her to open a locker full of gold bar in that episode. She is not any of the main characters of this cartoon.

Broadcast

Country	Channel	Language	Starting Year	Ending Year	Dubbing Seasons	Dubbing Episodes
India	Nickelodeon India	Hindi Tamil Telugu Kannada	2015	Present	Season 1 & 2	All Episodes
	Nickelodeon Sonic	Hindi Tamil Telugu Kannada	2016	2019	Season 1	All Episodes
	Nick HD+	English	2018	2018	Season 1	1 To 10 Episodes
	Rishtey	Hindi	2019	Present	Season 1	All Episodes
Indonesia	ANTV	Indonesian	2017	Present	Season 1	All Episodes
Bangladesh	Maasranga	Bengali	2017	Present	Season 1	All Episodes
Pakistan	Nickelodeon Pakistan	Urdu English	2016	2016	Season 1	1 To 10 Episodes
Nepal	NTV Plus	Nepali Maithili Newari English	2018	Present	Season 1	All Episodes
Sri Lanka	Hiru TV	Sinhala	2018	Present	Season 1	All Episodes
Paraguay	SNT 9	Spanish	2018	Present	Season 1	All Episodes
Maldives	Nickelodeon Maldives	Dhivehi Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Southern Zone Insular Indo-Aryan	2018	Present	Season 1	All Episodes
South Korea	Tooniverse	Korean	2019	Present	Season 1	All Episodes
Vietnam	Nick & You	Vietnamese	2019	Present	Season 1	All Episodes
Southeast Asia	Nickelodeon Asia	English Malay Indonesian Thai Taiwanese Mandarin	2019	Present	Season 1	All Episodes

References

"Nickelodeon strengthens Sonic with 'Shiva'; plans 70-80 hrs of original content". Indian Television Dot Com. April 21, 2016.
Menon, Bindu D. "Nickelodeon India creates third home-grown character — Shiva". @businessline.
"Nickelodeon's 'Shiva' is highest rated kids show in India". Indian Television Dot Com. 13 December 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2016.

External links

Shiva Cartoon/ Available On Voot Kids

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[1] "Nickelodeon strengthens Sonic with 'Shiva'; plans 70-80 hrs of original content". Indian Television Dot Com. April 21, 2016.

[2] Menon, Bindu D. "Nickelodeon India creates third home-grown character — Shiva". @businessline.

[Indian_Television_Dot_Com_2015-3] "Nickelodeon's 'Shiva' is highest rated kids show in India". Indian Television Dot Com. 13 December 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2016.