ViR: The Robot Boy

ViR: The Robot Boy is an Indian animated kids adventure television series aired on Hungama TV. It is about a humanoid robot boy and his adventures. It is produced by Maya Digital Studios in association with Cosmos Entertainment Pvt. Ltd (Cosmos) based in Singapore. ViR, lives in the fictional city of Fursatganj. It was premiered on 9 November 2013, beginning with episode "Earth In Trouble".

ViR: The Robot Boy
Genre	Robots, Science-Fiction, Fearless Leader
Screenplay by	Niraj Vikram
Story by	Suhas Kadav Dheeraj Berry Niraj Vikram
Directed by	Suhas Kadav
Presented by	Ketan Mehta
Theme music composer	Arghya
Opening theme	"ViR: The Robot Boy"
Ending theme	"ViR: The Robot Boy"
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi, English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	145 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	Anish Mehta
Cinematography	Maya Digital Studios
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Maya Digital studios
Release
Original network	Hungama TV
Original release	9 November 2013 (2013-11-09) – 2 December 2016 (2016-12-02)

Vir is a humanoid robot child with human-like qualities, emotions and superhuman abilities. He is a creation of Dr. Prem Sahay and he lives with him. Dr. Sahay is a kind elderly man, and he created Vir for helping others.[1][2] The series follows his humorous escapades as he manages to save the day with his quick thinking and a wide array of robotic abilities, along with his closest friends – Chulbul, the pet donkey, 8-year-old Imli and Gintu.

Episodes

Episode No.	Name
1	Udney Waley Pankh
2	Horse Race
3	Andher Nagri
4	Picnic
5	Trouble in Plane
6	Bandar Shahar Ke Andar
7	Chalak Chor
8	School Inspection
9	Bad Company
10	Inter-school Championship Trophy
11	Magnetic Robot
12	Vir ki Patang Baazi
13	The Thief Parrot
14	Atithi Devo Bhava
15	Bina Sar ka Bhoot
16	Bag Snatcher
17	Cobra the Missile Man
18	Missing Chulbul
19	Robot Anaconda
20	Chulbul the Jungle King
21	MR Chadha ka Hawai Safar
22	School Camp
23	Adrshy Jadugar
24	Lallan Daku
25	Fursatganj Trip
26	Pets Animal Show
27	Bura Na Maano Holi Hai
28	Behroopia
29	Robot Dustbin
30	Saving Tiger
31	Statue Man
32	Yeh Tree Hamara Hai!!!
33	Robot Octopus
34	The Mind Controller Bee
35	Diamond Thief Natwarlal
36	Vir ki Sapna
37	Robot Exhibition
38	Power Plant
39	Chalak Pilot
40	Electric Timbaktu
41	Pintu Jinn
42	Robot Appliances
43	Football Match
44	Imli se Muqabla
45	Shooting Stars
46	Bunty aur Babli Jasoos
47	Ghost Bank Robbery
48	Teen Tigada Kaam Bigada
49	Threat on Fursatganj
50	Nakli Aliens
51	Mad Max Shrinks
52	Baby Gintu
53	Robot Tree
54	Magical Bunty
55	Laughing Robot
56	Ninja Master
57	Imli the Karate Girl
58	Chulbul in Circus
59	Bhooton se Kya Darna
60	Vir in Jugnu World
61	The Attack of Madmingo
62	The Dwarf
63	Magical Feather
64	Robot Car
65	The Black Circle
66	Purana Kila
67	Inter-school Robot Competition
68	Fursatganj Mein Dinosaurs
69	The Peacock
70	Mad Max's Dark Magnus
71	Dance Competition
72	Main Kaun Hoon?

Seasons 3 & 4 can be watched at SonyLiv.

Episode No.	Name
73	Bhool Bhulaiya
74	Car Thief
75	Lightening Robot
76	Mask of Vir
77	Vir VS Uncle Jinn
78	The Enormous Flower
79	Happy Birthday Chulbul!
80	Chatori Gintu
81	Giant Spider
82	Turtle Alien
83	Volcano
84	Cemento
85	Go Cart Race
86	Chuhon ki Baraat
87	Mad Max ki Bike
88	Vir VS Cat Mona
89	Floating Vir
90	Umbrella Man
91	Danger Devil
92	Bhoot Bhandar
93	Vir VS Toy Robots
94	Vir ki Voice
95	Dangerous Seven
96	Lady Jinn
97	Hide and Seek
98	Bunty the Robot Boy
99	Drama Competition
100	Piggy Bank
101	Jungle Safari
102	Dragoz
103	Fursatganj ki Diwali
104	Coconuts' Attack
105	Powerless Vir
106	Merry Christmas Fursatganj
107	Vir VS Robot 10
108	Lizard Man
109	Robot Vir
110	Electric Transformer
111	Gintu ka Gussa
112	Happy Birthday Vir!
113	Body-less Aliens
114	Train Chase
115	Gintu ban Gaya Teacher
116	Himalayan Penguins
117	Bubble Man Timbaktu
118	Vir ki Punishment
119	Gintu Meets Chintu
120	Robot Hoverraft
121	Mr Hat
122	Gold Thief Alien
123	Boxer Gintu
124	Vir's Robot Boy Suit
125	Mad Max becomes Dadaji
126	Devil Liliputs
127	Power of Seven Planets
128	Factoroid Attack
129	Robot Bee Attack
130	Mad Max ki UFO
131	Satelite Launch
132	Vir VS Yeti
133	Timbaktoon ka Jinn
134	Earth in Trouble
135	Star Alien
136	Missing Gintu
137	Vir in Dadaji's Brain
138	Vir VS Cosmic Wolf Power
139	Vir VS Giant Bug
140	Robotic Piranha
141	Alien Pedro
142	Blob Attack
143	Invisible Power Attack
144	Vir ek Villain
145	Student of the Week

Robot Suits

Main

• Robot Boy Suit: Gives Vir a jetpack and additional powers.
• Diving Suit: Changes Vir into a scuba-diver and gives him the swimming ability.
• Wing Suit: Gives Vir the flying ability.
• Twister Suit: Gives Vir a tornado which can suck everything.
• Fire Suit: Gives Vir a shield to protect him from fire.
• Astronaut Suit: Changes Vir to an astronaut.
• Drilling Suit: Gives Vir a drill to dig.

Rare Suits

• Lightning Suit: Gives Vir the ability to control lightning and thunder.
• Sliding Suit: Gives Vir the ability to fly over tunnels.

Compilations

Compilation No.	Name of compilation
1	School Diaries
2	Gintu Gags
3	Vir Vs Evils
4	Rowdy Robo Attack
5	Chadda Uncle
6	Wild Animals Fun
7	Mad Max's Invention

Characters

• Vir. Vir is a humanoid robot made by doctor Prem Sahai. He has human-like qualities and has robot gadgets. Vir is often carefree, kind and intelligent, always helping anyone in need. His friends are his pet donkey, Chulbul, his magical jinn, Gintu and his best friend, Imli, who he has a crush on. His main enemy is Mad Max, an evil scientist who wants to capture him, make duplicates of him and rule over the world with their help. but Vir foils his plans every time, thus saving the world. He has a secret identity, that no one except his friends and dadaji, know. He is the hero of Fursatganj, Robot Boy. He has 7 suits, Robot Boy suit, Diving Suit, Wing-suit, Fire-suit, Twister-Suit, Astronaut-suit, and Drilling-suit. He is a 11-year old robot. Voiced by Vidit Kumar.
• Imli. Imli is one of Vir's best friends. She is highly intelligent, pretty and is always ready to help anyone that is in trouble. She is also very protective of Vir, and often jumps in to free him from one of Mad Max's traps. Therefore she has a crush on him. Her greatest dislikes are Bunty and his friends, Keki Feki. Her friends are Chulbul, Gintu and Vir. She first meets Gintu at 'Bag Snatcher'. Voiced by Roopa Bhimani
• Gintu. Gintu is one of Vir's friends and is a magical jinn. He is a chubby boy who loves eating all the time and often does mistakes that make no sense. He lacks any intelligence and is very lazy but nevertheless still helps his friends. Whenever he gets hit in the head, he loses his memory. Vir sometimes loses his temper when Gintu does something stupid. His friends are Chulbul, Vir and Imli. When Vir calls him, he says "C-c-c-castor c-c-c-castor! You're my master, you're my master.". Voiced by Anubhav Saha
• Chulbul . Chulbul is one of Vir's friends who is a donkey. He always accompanies Vir to where he goes and also gets into trouble with him. He loves eating carrots. He often thinks highly of himself but is always beaten. He is always there to help his friends whenever needed. His friends are Imli, Vir and Gintu. He is a 16 year-old donkey. Voiced by Brian Dcosta
• Chintu . Chintu is Gintu's childhood friend. He only appears in 'Gintu meets Chintu.' Despite his failed ways to separate Gintu and Vir, he can not separate them.
• Principal Sir. Principal Sir is the headmaster of Vir's school. He is a kind man who always wants the best from his students. Although at first he thought nothing of Vir, he began to admire him after the many times Vir saved the school and therefore Vir is the best known student in the school. Voiced by Trilok Patel.
• Bunty Chadha. Bunty Chadha is one of Vir's normal bully. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Chadha. Because of his parents' wealth, he thinks that he is the only one that is more powerful than everyone else. He always bullies other people but also gets punished for it by Vir, who he hates. Despite Vir's attempts to change him, he never does. He tries to win and prove to everyone that he's the best by cheating. He has two friends, Keki and Feki. Being jealous of Vir, he often finds out that Vir is a robot or a Robot Boy by spying on him, but thanks to Gintu's magic, he never remembers anything. He has an uncle called Bhadijha. Gintu gives him a fake robot suit where its lasers won't harm anyone in 'Bunty the Robot Boy'. Voiced by Sabina Malik.
• Keki Feki. The two are the followers of Bunty and are bullies. They first appear in 'Horse Race'.
• Mad Max. Mad Max is the antagonist of the series. He is a mad scientist who wants to rule over the world. He wants to capture Vir and make copies of him, and then destroy him. Vir foils his plans every time. His catchphrase is "Mad Max is mad! Very, very mad!". He has a sidekick, or more like a servant named Timbaktoon and a cat named Mona. He also accidentally gets beaten up by Timbaktoon. Voiced by Shailendra Pandey.
• Timbaktoon. Timbaktoon is the sidekick/ servant of Mad Max and often helps fulfill his plans. He is clumsy and careless, often getting himself into trouble while trying to capture Vir. He also accidentally beats Mad Max up. Voiced by Mayur Vyas.
• Mona. Mona is the cat companion of Mad Max. She is very arrogant and often compliments Max with the saying “Boss, you’re genius! Super duper genius!”. She only fights against Vir in 'Vir VS Cat Mona'. She is a 9 year-old cat. Voiced by Pooja Punjabi.
• Dr Prem Sahay/ Dadaji. Dadaji is a scientist who created Vir so he could save the world and its people. Dadaji is a very caring person, and loves and cares for Vir very much. Dadaji's enemy is also Mad Max, and in the episode "Nakli Aliens" it is shown that they knew each other even before Vir was made. Vir deeply cares about Dadaji and is very protective of him. Voiced by Ajay Singhal
• Nanaji/ Magical jinn. Nanaji is the grandfather of Gintu. He is also as big as Gintu and also loves eating. He first appears in the episode "Baby Gintu" as to help Gintu turn into a boy again after he turns himself into a little baby. He is a kind man with extraordinary powers.
• Mr. Chadha. Mr. Chadha is Bunty's father. He is a wealthy man who is continuously, and unknowingly by him, getting accidentally beaten up by (mostly) Vir and (sometimes) his friends. He is the second person to sometimes find out that Vir is a Robot Boy the first one being his son. He is a kind and sometimes self-centered man. Voiced by Nandkishore Pandey.
• Mrs. Chadha. Mrs. Chadha is Bunty's mother. She is in short words and kind woman who loves looking nice and beautiful and always gets annoyed by her son's ridiculous acts. Voiced by Meena Nahata.
• Babli. Babli is Bunty's stuck-up self-centered cousin. She only appears in 'Bunty And Babli Detectives' where she, with Bunty, try to find out the truth behind Vir, and comically fail, because of Gintu's magic.
• Mr. Sinha. Mr. Sinha is Imli's caring and kind father. Not much is said about him and neither does he appear in many episodes. He first appears at 'Horse Race'. Also voiced by Mayur Vyas.
• Mrs. Sinha. Mrs. Sinha is Imli's pretty and kind mother. Not much is known about her either. She also first appears in 'Horse Race'. Voiced by Mausum.
• Munnu. Munnu is a cute little kid and a friend of Vir's. He is a adorable 4-year-old who looks up to Vir. He doesn't appear in many episodes. Voiced by Sinha.
• Kakkad Sir. Kakkad Sir is a stoic, stubborn teacher at Vir's school. As mentioned, he is very stoic and doesn't like to be bothered or interrupted. He also dislikes Vir and is often trying to prove the boy wrong in front of Principal Sir. His attempts, however, always fail. Also voiced by Shailendra Pandey.
• Ramu, Nathu, Michael, Simon. They are thieves from Mad Max's company. After Mad Max fired them out, they worked for other villains like Uncle Bhadijha. They appear in some episodes.
• Uncle Bhadijha. He is Bunty's uncle. He was a hunter who wanted to catch animals. After Vir won against him, he never kidnapped animals. He only appears in 'The Peacock'. Also voiced by Nandkishore Pandey.
• Bulbul. He is donkey opposite of Chulbul. After Gintu got him to Vir, Vir thought that he was Chulbul. He kicked Vir and Bunty. He only appears at 'Missing Chulbul'.
• Pintu. Pintu is a bad jinn. He kidnapped Gintu in a bottle. After Vir released Gintu, Vir fought Pintu in his Twister Suit. Pintu was about to catch Vir, but the bottle Gintu was trapped was big. As Pintu entered in it, the bottle shrunk. Vir sent Pintu to Genie-land. He only appears on 'Pintu Jinn'. Also voiced by Anubhav Saha.
• Launderer Bir. He is a launderer. After seeing Chulbul eating carrots, he led a carrot path. As Chulbul entered it, he got kidnapped by him. But Vir shot lasers in Bir's henchmen. Chulbul got safe. Bir only appears in 'Missing Chulbul'.
• Mad Robots. They are Mad Max's henchmen. When Mad Max calls them, they prove to attack Vir.

Theme song

• "Vir The Robot Boy Dimaag Hai Computer Se Taiz" he is very smart and very strong as well.

Reception

The series received a mixed reception. It was well-received with children between ages 5–8 being able to relate to the character of ViR.

See also

• List of Indian animated television series

References

1. Milligan, Mercedes (19 May 2016). "Cosmos-Maya Leads Regional Animation Production". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
2. "ViR The Robot Boy - Cosmos - Maya - Products". Asia TV Forum. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2016.