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Barely hours into watching a thoroughly fulfilling Marvel superhero fare (Spider-man: No Way Home), I was not expecting to be surprised in any way. Minnal Murali, the story of a homegrown Indian superhero, managed to knock my socks off rather – something I didn’t see coming. I would blame it on the absence of legitimate superheroes in the nation’s otherwise rich comic book landscape. Children and teens in India do not grow up nerding out on local versions of Superman and Spiderman or playing equivalents of ‘Dungeons and Dragons’. Comics in the ’90s were all about the exuberance of the Amar Chitra Katha stories, the lovable goofiness of Suppandi, the mischiefs of Boban and Molly among many. The closest I came to the idea of a superhero-like figure was Mayavi – the friendly demon – who, despite all his powers, could easily be captured in a bottle.

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