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Tantri the Mantri, was the brainchild of Subba Rao, one of the editors of Tinkle in its early days. Subba Rao was an admirer of Rene Goscinny co-creator and writer of the famous comics series, Asterisk and the lesser-know lznogoud. Tantri, the Mantri in fact takes its basic theme from lznogoud.
Tantri is adviser to and the right-hand man of Raja Hooja, an easy-going monarch whose chief interest in life is food, being especially found of laddoos. Hooja considers Tantri an epitome of loyalty, never realizing that the man is a blackguard who has set his sights on the throne. Tantri devises plan after plan to eliminate his royal master and become the new king but Hooja is incredibly lucky (or perhaps Tantri is incredibly unlucky). Not only do his plans not succeed they often boomerang, with physically disastrous consequences for the mantri.
The first episode appeared in Tinkle 51, in January 1984. The story was written by Subba Rao (under the pen name Appaswami) and illustrated by Ashok Dongre. Over the years, Half a dozen artists and more than a dozen writers and editors worked on the series at different times. As a result, there was discontinuity in the styles, and in the physical appearance of the main charcters. In some episodes Tantri is short, in some he's tall; Hooja's dimensions keep changing from fat to fatter. The time period keeps changing too. When the feature was conceived it was agreed that the setting should be a remote are in northern India in the 1880s. But in some of the later Tantri episodes the characters are shown using modern inventions like the aeroplane, cell phone and the internet.
But whatever the period and whatever the protagonists may look like, the theme remains the same: it is the eternal battle between right and wrong; good and evil; Tantri and Hooja. Tantri always bungles but Hooja never stumbles onto what his trusted mantri is up to!
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