Vicky & Vetaal
| Vicky & Vetaal | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy-drama |
| Created by | Nikhat Bhatti |
| Written by | Swanand Kirkire |
| Directed by | Suraj Rao |
| Creative director(s) | Nikhat Bhatti |
| Starring | Daman Deep Singh (voice) Suhail More Vishal Malhotra Jai Thakkar Dev Kantawala |
| Narrated by | Ram Baboo Verma |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language(s) | Hindi |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Narendra S. Kokbankar |
| Producer(s) | Prem Krishen Sunil Mehta |
| Cinematography | Selina Sheth |
| Editor(s) | Afzal Shaikh |
| Camera setup | Prakash Barot Amit |
| Running time | 20-22 minutes (per episode) |
| Production company(s) | Cinevistaas Ltd |
| Release | |
| Original network | Disney Channel |
| Picture format | 576i (16:9 SDTV) |
Vicky & Vetaal is an Indian children's comedy series produced by and aired on Disney Channel India (previously known as Jetix). It was launched on 7 October 2006 as the first major original production of the network, and Disney's first locally produced live action Hindi language series. The show was planned to be the first of a string of five local productions due to get released within a year's span, and has since been followed by Dhoom Machaao Dhoom. The series stars Dev Kantawala as Vicky and Vishal Malhotra as Vetaal.
The show is based on the Baital Pachisi collection of tales about the semi-legendary King Vikram, identified as Vikramāditya, and the Vetala, a huge vampire-like being.The show was dubbed in Tamil as 'Vicky and vedhalam' was aired simultaneously in Jetix.
The main characters of the series are Vicky (Dev Kantawala), a brave and intelligent sixth standard boy and Vetaal (Vishal Malhotra), a friendly but foolish ghost whom only Vicky can see. Vicky released Vetaal accidentally after Vetaal had been hanging from a tree in a graveyard for 300 years and since then their fate has been tied together (much to their dismay) and they have to go along together everywhere followed by "Paddu", Vetaal's living book of magic. The episodes mostly revolves around mishaps in Vicky's life and Vetaal's brave but foolish attempts to save the day often leading to additional troubles for Vicky.
The series is primarily a comedy series with stand-alone episodes.This was one of the top favourites among kids that was being hosted by Disney channel at that time
Vicky Sharma (played by Dev Kantawala), is a sixth standard boy. He, as seen in the pilot episode and the series, is very naughty boy who likes to play pranks on others. He is tormented by the school bully Sid (portrayed by (Jai Thakkar) in the first episode and Vicky challenged him to visit a graveyard and touch a peepal tree. Although he accepted the challenge, but was very scared and to make other worse, he chooses heads in the toss and wins, meaning he would be going first. Vicky then reveals to the viewers that it was actually a coin with two heads. He scares Sid by setting many scary things like his skeleton model "Bonu". And therefore Vicky wins by touching the tree, but, Everything ends there as he wakes up to find it was a nightmare. However, it wasn't a nightmare. Vetaal, the vampire and his spellbook Paddu get a new home, that is Vicky's home and from then onward they live together. He is usually blamed for things which are actually done by Vetaal as he is the only one who can see him.
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