Super K – The Movie
Super K (also known as Kiara the Brave in the United States) is a 2011 Indian animated film written by Vibha Singh and Jaspinder S. Kang and directed by Smita Maroo and Vijay S. Bhanushali. The film was produced by Smita Maroo and released by Shemaroo Entertainment.
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Directed by | Vijay S. Bhanushali Smita Maroo |
Produced by | Smita Maroo |
Written by | Vibha Singh Jaspinder S. Kang |
Distributed by | Shemaroo Entertainment Pvt Ltd |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | English Hindi |
Plot
Dreamzone is a special world in the Galaxy, ruled by the kind-hearted King Maximus with his daughter Princess Kiara. Unknown to him, his brother Badmess is plotting to overthrow him. Badmess creates Super K, a boy superhero, using the powers of all the Dreamzonians. But a goof-up causes Super K to turn out a freak in Badmess view, unable to control his powers, and he is deserted by Badmess and let his minions literally name Accidentally and Suddenly to take care Super K. Badmess befriends the evil Dr. Ozox, a masked alchemist who has his own sinister plan to take over Dreamzone.
Super K and his friends come together to protect Dreamzone from the evil clutches of Dr. Ozox, but at the same time, Super K has to learn to control his powers.[1]
Characters
Release and reception
The film was released on Yahoo! Movieplex, a feature of the Yahoo! India web site, as an exclusively online animated feature film.[2][3][4] In 2012, it was released directly to video in the United States as Kiara the Brave, with cover art showing only princess Kiara (a secondary female character with red hair). This was considered by many to be an obvious attempt to remind consumers of the female, red-headed protagonist of Brave, a Pixar Animation Studios film set in medieval Scotland.[5] Super K has been universally panned by critics and moviegoers.
In 2012 the film was also screened at the Dada Saheb Film Festival in Delhi.[6]
See also
- List of Indian animated feature films
References
- "Super entertainment at a click". The Hindu, Dec 1, 2011
- "Shemaroo does a Houdini — again". The Hindu, February 28, 2013. Meenakshi Verma Ambwani
- "Shemaroo to release its 3D film online first". Yahoo. Yahoo. 15 October. Check date values in:
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(help) - "Shemaroo - 1st Indian producer to release superhero animation film SUPER K online". BollywoodTrade. 14 October. Archived from the original on 29 November 2011. Check date values in:
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(help) - Brent Lang (14 June 2012). "Low-Budget 'Kiara the Brave' Capitalizes on Similarities to That Other 'Brave' Cartoon". The Wrap. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
- "Animated wonder". Telegraph India, May 13, 2012