india: Graphic India ropes in Anshuman Misra as Country head

In his new function, Misra shall be working carefully with founder and CEO Sharad Devarajan to increase the corporate’s operations within the area throughout animation, reside motion and the metaverse.

Misra involves Graphic India as a seasoned media skilled with over twenty years of expertise as managing director/CEO of main media manufacturers equivalent to Turner, WarnerMedia, and BBC in India and Asia Pacific.

He was additionally instrumental in launching international manufacturers equivalent to CNNI, BBC World, HBO, and Cartoon Community in India and shaped joint ventures equivalent to Zee Turner and CNN IBN (now CNN18).

“Anshuman Misra has a confirmed observe file as a media chief who has established among the most iconic manufacturers and companies in India. I’m thrilled and honoured to convey his wealth of expertise to Graphic India as we increase our mission to create characters, heroes and tales which can be uniquely Indian, however entertaining and provoking to audiences all over the world,” mentioned Devarajan. “India has the world’s largest youth inhabitants and its time it shared an equal portion of the annual $100 billion-dollar international character leisure and licensing business.”

“I really feel privileged to be related to a dynamic firm equivalent to Graphic India with its clear aim to ascertain itself because the Indian superhero content material firm for house and overseas,” mentioned Misra. “I sit up for undertaking that mission with the assistance of the tremendous expertise we have now at Graphic India and with the steering of our founder Sharad Devarajan.”

Graphic India plans to create unique Indian superheroes, mythological worlds, and character leisure franchises. The corporate lately created and produced the sequence, ‘The Legend of Hanuman’, which was ranked by unbiased information analytics group Ormax Media because the #2 present in India on SVOD Platforms for all of 2021, with over 23 million viewers.

Its different properties embrace ‘Chakra The Invincible’ created by Devarajan and late Stan Lee (co-creator of ‘Spider-Man’, ‘Iron Man’, ‘X-Males’ and ‘The Avengers’) and ‘Baahubali The Misplaced Legends’, an animated sequence primarily based on the hit movie franchise with over 70 episodes.

Devarajan and Graphic India are additionally a producer on the upcoming live-action movie, ‘The Archies’ which was lately introduced by Netflix and directed by Zoya Akhtar and produced by Tiger Child.

The corporate has produced over 200 animated episodes and over 300 comics and graphic novels and can be growing over a dozen reside motion movie and TV initiatives throughout Hollywood, and Bollywood. With tons of of tales and hundreds of characters, Graphic India’s library of comedian ebook characters and titles embrace Devi, The Sadhu, 18 Days, Shadow Tiger, Avatarex, Mistry PI, Shikari Drive, Reincarnation Man, The Mighty Yeti, Monkey Grasp, and extra.

Graphic India additionally lately spun-out a brand new digital media start-up, Toonsutra, to grow to be India-focused cellular webtoon enterprise.

Graphic India was launched by a bunch of traders together with US comedian ebook firm Liquid Comics, Begin Media and CA Media, the Asian funding arm of The Chernin Group.