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Quick facts for kids Motu Patlu
Genre	Slapstick comedy
Created by	Harvinder Mankkar
Written by	Niraj Vikram
Directed by	Suhas D. Kadav
Voices of	Saurav Chakraborty Omi Sharma Sankalp Brian D. Costa Rajah Renu Sharda
Theme music composer	Sandesh Shandilya
Opening theme	"Motu Aur Patlu Ki Jodi" by Sukhwinder Singh
Ending theme	"Motu Aur Patlu Ki Jodi" by Sukhwinder Singh
Composer(s)	Sandesh Shandilya
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	1000
Production
Executive producer(s)	Anu Sikka
Producer(s)	Deepa Sahi Anish JS Mehta
Editor(s)	Prasad K. Patil
Running time	10–11 mins (Length of single episode)
Production company(s)	Maya Digital Studios Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Distributor	Viacom 18
Release
Original network	Nickelodeon India
Audio format	Dolby Digital
Original release	16 October 2012 (2012-10-16)
Chronology
Related shows	Inspector Chingum

Motu Patlu is an Indian animated sitcom television series written by Niraj Vikram for Nickelodeon India. The series is produced by Cosmos-Maya Studios. It is adapted from the classic comic strip Lotpot. It premiered on 16 October 2012. It focuses on two friends, Motu and Patlu, living in a fictional town called Furfuri Nagar, however later in the series they live in another fictional city known as Modern City. Nowadays Motu Patlu and their friends are touring Europe.

Motu Patlu is directed by Suhas Kadav and produced by Deepa Sahi and Anish J.S. Mehta. The show's theme song, "Motu Aur Patlu Ki Jodi", is composed by Sandesh Shandilya and sung by Sukhwinder Singh. It is one of the most popular children's shows in India.

Plot

The story revolves around Motu and Patlu, two friends living in Furfuri Nagar, and their daily activities. The show focuses on the two landing themselves in trouble and comical situations, later being rescued only by sheer luck. Samosas are Motu's favourite food, and he frequently tries to steal them from a local tea vendor named Chaiwala who makes the best samosas in the town. Motu is mainly the black sheep of the duo, unintentionally creating problems due to his incompetency while Patlu is the smart one that always tries to stop him. Recurring characters included Ghasitaram, Dr. Jhatka and Chingum. Ghasitaram occasionally misdirects and swindles them by making them try Dr. Jhatka's vast repertoire of quirky gadgets and gizmos. After Motu eats samosas, he temporarily gains more energy and strength than he normally has. Motu Patlu lives in a hut. In the newer version they live in a flat called Furfuri Apartment.

The main antagonist of the series is a criminal named "John the Don" (briefly and very famously known as John) who is accompanied by his two big but weak and dumb henchmen, Number 1 and Number 2 who steal things, steal most of the people's money and jewellery and create havoc in Furfuri Nagar. John intends to become a don, but his plans always fail due to the heroic actions of Motu and Patlu, who trap and expose him and his plans tit for tat. In some episodes John tries to harm them by stealing Dr. Jhatka's newest gadget and using it against Motu and Patlu, but they eventually manage to give John a taste of his own medicine.

In the later episodes, they started to live in Modern City, where some new characters were introduced.

Characters

Main characters

• Motu: Motu is a plump man who serves as one of the central protagonists of this show. He likes to eat samosas which increase his power drastically, giving him the ability to defeat his normally superior rivals. Samosas also increase his speed, strength, vision, and intelligence, also allowing him to lift boulders and vehicles. Motu's best friend is Patlu. He often lands in trouble because of his actions. He is always looking for the easiest way to earn money, have fun and to eat a lot of samosas. Sometimes he gets over-expressive while celebrating his victory and can do something very foolish, like bringing back a pirate into the present who they had sent back to the past. He is also shown bragging about things he has never done. He is a good-natured man who wants to help others, unfortunately he can be easily fooled by them too, especially John. Patlu once said that he is not a fool, he is a simple man. Although he is not skilled in any job, he tries to work with Patlu as constables, ward boys, cleaners, delivery boys, etc. but he creates troubles and gets fired from those companies/organizations in which he and Patlu worked. He has baldness on his head but has hair next to his ears. He also has a mustache. He wears a red tunic with a blue (mostly black) vest, yellow pajamas and shoes. His talking accent is influenced by Dara Singh. He is depicted as extremely afraid of mice. In the movie, Motu Patlu in Alien World, he was separated from his father when he was 6–7 years old. His father is believed to have been abducted by aliens from the planet Axar during his search for extraterrestrial life forms in the universe. His dialogue is "Khaali pet mere dimaag ki batti nahi chalti tum hi kuch karo!" which means "You do something, I can't think on an empty stomach!".

In the newer episodes, his tunic features maroon vertical stripes.

• Patlu: Patlu is a slim man who serves as one of the show's central protagonists. He is often portrayed as the smartest guy in the city however, he often gets into a lot of trouble with Motu. He dislikes samosas but likes to read the newspapers. It is also believed that his grandfather was a boxing champion and had a recipe for procuring extraordinary strength. This is later discovered to be the case by Motu. He is not strong. He can beat John when he is alone but is beaten by strong criminals or John's goons, especially Number 1. He has a bald head and a braid. He wears a yellow tunic with orange leggings, brown-framed glasses, and brown shoes. His dialogues are "Idea!" and "Motu kuch karo!" ("Motu, do something!," he says it whenever Motu causes troubles.)

In Modern City and Europe Tour episodes, his outfit changes to a yellow tunic with a curved blue stripe on the left and blue leggings.

• Dr. Jhatka: Dr. Jhatka is an eccentric scientist. In some older episodes he was shown as a dentist. His accent is like Sardar, so he is referred to as Punjabi. His invention are usually very impressive but are of little use to the townspeople. Often gets someone in trouble. He drives a yellow flying car. Jhatka is known by his reduced hairline, green shirt, violet necktie, and blue jeans and olive strapped black shoes. His grandfather is shown to be a millionaire searching for the whereabouts of his grandson in Furfuri Nagar; His design is a parallel version of Motu. He sometime tests his gadgets on Motu and Patlu without telling them before hand which causes them problems. This often leads to him getting beaten up by Motu and Patlu. He could be beaten by Number 1. In some movies and almost all episodes, Motu Patlu and others beat him up for not reminding them about his gadgets, especially not to remind them of his flying helmet.

In the newer episodes, he wears a yellow shirt with white floral oriental prints, a green necktie, a violet check blazer and brown pants which was soon replaced by a pair of denim trousers. Inside his lab, he wears a pair of goggles, a white shirt, a pair of turquish blue pants, and a pair of boots. He wears the same clothes as the scientists wear. He has a red flying car on the Europe trip.

• Ghasitaram: Ghasitaram is a cowardly person who always claims to have 20 years of experience in various fields but only a few of the experiences are useful to others. He is referred to as Bengali; He hails from Ghatal located in West Midnapore in West Bengal. Like Dr. Jhatka, his so-called "experiences of 20 years" often land other people, especially Motu and Patlu, in trouble. However, Motu and Patlu do call on him for help in certain episodes. He is also the lab assistant of Dr. Jhatka. Ghasitaram also helps Dr. Jhatka with experiments and coaxing Motu and Patlu to test Dr. Jhatka's inventions. His design is a parallel version of Patlu. He wears a cobalt blue tunic, purple dhoti, dark brown vest, and shoes of the same color.

Later when they started to live in Modern City and when they started touring Europe, he wears a peach coloured tunic, an olive green vest, and brown leggings.

• Inspector Chingum: Chingum is a police inspector. He believes that no criminal can escape from him, however he manages to catch them merely by luck and with the help of Motu and Patlu. A Rajinikanth devotee with a strong South Indian accent, Chingum is a solicitous police inspector. He takes pride in the fact that no criminal can ever get away. He drives both a green police motorcycle and a police jeep. Chingum is sometimes helped by two constables, Hera and Pheri. From the movie "Motu Patlu: Double Trouble", we found out that he is also married. He has a mustache that reaches the bottom of his jaw and brown silky hair that reaches his nape. Chingum wears a khaki police uniform with stars and badges decorating it and a name tag, with a police cap. He also often wears sunglasses. In the older episodes, he wears a blue handkerchief with white dots on his left wrist, which was replaced by a Smart Watch GT08 in the latest version of the show. When he says his dialogues he shoots upwards, the coconuts fall on his head and makes him fall on the ground. He can shoot coconuts from anywhere, even from Antarctica and the moon. In some episodes he is shown that he occasionally orders coconuts to fall on enemies, to stop Motu Patlu, etc. He likes to eat South Indian food such as idli, dosa, sambar, vada and coconut chutney.

He has a new police station in the new episodes. On the European tour he drives a green scooter.

Recurring

• Chaiwala: Chaiwala owns a tea shop near Motu's house but his real home is never revealed. He makes Motu's favorite samosas and Patlu's favorite tea in the city, which Motu steals from the shop in the older episodes. Although Chaiwala does not like his food being stolen, he occasionally rewards Motu by exempting him from paying the money Motu owes him or even promising him more free samosas when he saves him from other residents of Furfuri Nagar. Motu sometimes gets beaten up for not paying Chaiwala. He wears a white undershirt and lungi with a towel over his neck, which he occasionally uses to wipe off his sweat.

Later in Modern City, he wears a blue-gold chef's hat and uniform and he has a new tea shop.

• Boxer: Boxer is Motu's neighbour, he is an aggressive man. Boxer wears red boxing gloves, a white tank top top and red shorts with vertical yellow stripes. The text "BOXER" is written in red with an orange outline on the back of his shirt. Sometimes he also wears a black shirt with jeans. His boxing coach is Mr. Thakur. Boxer wants to help his neighbours but gets angry and ends up beating them up instead. He is very strong and can break through walls and punches people so hard that they go into the clouds. He is not that fast and can be fooled. He could be beaten by Motu if he eats samosas. He is shown that he is not a good parent and cannot get his son, Sunny, to sleep. In "Judwa Boxer", we find out that he also has a cowardly brother who later becomes bold enough to free him from Motu and Patlu's captivity. His real name is Raju, as shown in the episode "Motu Mobile" when he calls his mother in America.

In the newer episodes, he wears a green hoodie with black stripes, blue denim trousers and green shoes.

• John: John serves as the main antagonist of the show. John's ambition is to become a Don. But his plans always fail very badly and thus end up in him getting arrested or being taunted by other people. He says some short poems. Contrary to normal thieves, he is not afraid of Chingum but is instead afraid of Motu and Patlu. He is plump, and short in size and faces discrimination for that. He is a mastermind in thievery and also has a pistol. He can fool Motu and other people. He is also very good at mimicry and disguise. But he is less clever than Patlu. He wears a blue dress shirt with dark blue floral prints, yellow undershirt, brown belt, dark blue pants with blue cuffs, and brown shoes. He has three gold chains around his neck, J is written on his locket and eight rings on all his fingers except the thumb. He always likes to rob money from banks and jewelry from jewelry shops. He has a van. According to the episode "Motu the Radio Jockey", John was interested in stealing since childhood, and started stealing from someone's home, then stealing chocolate from a girl, then food from restaurants, etc.

In the newer episodes, he wears a blue shirt with multiple patterns, a yellow undershirt, purple pants, and blue boots and he has a house to live in the forest where he lives. He can hide his stolen money and stolen jewelry in his own house.

• Number 1: Number 1 is John's goon who serves as one of the supporting antagonists. He likes and appreciates John's short poems but John beats him up in return. He has brilliant ideas to trap Motu and Patlu but whenever he tells him John says that his idea is bad and beats him, saying that he has a better plan but repeats the same one. Though he respects John, he is always the first to get beaten by him. He wears a blue French check hat, magenta striped shirt, denim trousers, and a yellow ascot tie.

In the later episodes, he wears a green zig-zag shirt, a red ascot tie, a red beret, and dark brown shoes.

• Number 2: Number 2 is John's goon who rarely speaks. He has a dark mark on his one eye and a bandage on his oversized nose. However, in the new version, there is no dark mark on one of his two eyes and no bandage on his nose. He has dark brown hair, wears a cyan striped shirt, aquamarine ascot tie, and brownish-orange pants.

In the later version, he wears a purple striped shirt, a light green ascot tie, green pants, and red shoes.

• Khopadi: Khopadi (pronounced as Khopri) is a goon in season 4 who always tries to defeat Motu Patlu. He was first introduced in the movie "Motu Patlu Dino Invasion". He is the Don of Modern City, his vehicle is an ambulance. Khopadi has more assistants but their names have not been mentioned. Sometimes Khopadi stands on the ambulance while one of his two assistants drives the ambulance. The episode he first appeared in was called Trapped in Tower.
• Pappu-Haddi: They are two assistants of Khopadi.
• Skull: He is the elder brother of Khopadi and made his first appearance in the movie "Motu Patlu Dino Invasion" as a famous hunter of Africa. He likes to catch animals.

Location

The series is set in a fictional town of Furfuri Nagar of India. It is a peaceful yet glamorous small town, simultaneously noble and squalid, adjoined by a river with a few shops, a large market area, a bus depot, a cluster of single-storeyed houses, temples, and a few recreational places. The town has three or more banks, three or more jewellery shops, Furfuri Nagar Police Station, Chingum's house, Boxer's house, Motu Patlu's house, Chaiwala's stall, Furfuri Nagar Central Jail, Furfuri Nagar Bus Stand, John's den, Dr. Jhatka's laboratory and house and Ghasitaram's house. There are a few villages and a few neighbouring cities around, such as Kamalpur, Sursuri Nagar and Modern City. Despite being a small town it has its own airport. It is not clearly mentioned where the town is exactly located, but most of the vehicles carry license plate numbers starting with "MH", which stands for the state of Maharashtra. The local police force wears uniforms of the Maharashtra Police.

However, in the later episodes, they had moved to Modern City for unknown reasons. A quick trailer showcasing new episodes mentions the differences in their new setting. In the later episodes, they are now on a trip to Europe. Some European cities they have visited include Pisa, Italy, Rome, Italy, Tuscany, Italy London, England and Paris, France. They also visited Germany's Berlin, Switzerland's Top of Europe, Russia's St. Petersburg and England's Salisbury.

Production

Music

The music featured in the series and film is written by Sandesh Shandilya, an Indian film composer. The theme song of the series, "Motu Aur Patlu Ki Jodi", is written by Gulzar and sung by Bollywood singer Sukhwinder Singh in Hindi.

Episodes

Furfuri Nagar's Episodes

The Rest Furfuri Nagar's Episodes

Modern City's Episodes

Motu Patlu's Europe Tour

Description

In Motu Patlu's Europe trip they have visited many countries and in the cities of those countries, in the capital cities, and in many places in those countries like Pisa of Italy, Rome of Italy, Tuscany of Italy, London of England and Paris of France. Motu Patlu's Europe Tour has 70+ episodes aired on Nickelodeon. Their European tour also includes 3 movies of Motu Patlu, "Motu Patlu in the Game of Zones", "Motu Patlu the Superheroes vs. Alien Ghost" and "Motu Patlu's Dangerous Road Trip in Switzerland".

Europe Tour's Episodes

Merchandising and promotion

Since the inception of the television series, its creators, Lotpot magazine, Maya Digital Studios and Nickelodeon India are aggressively promoting its merchandising, the series products and tie-ups.

In March 2014, Nick India tied up with the Yellow Diamond chips brand for promotion of its products across various media. In November 2014 a major deal was signed by Horlicks for promotion of its brand with the series's characters in its marketing advertisements.

Movies

Other media

Made-for-television films

• Motu Patlu in Wonderland! – When Dr. Jhatka's experimental aircraft fails and crash-landings on a mysterious and unknown island, they are expecting terrible actions and danger on that island.
• Motu Patlu: Mission Moon – Motu Patlu struggle and restore the moon to its original state for the people of the moon to stop an evil entity named Drago who has been converting the soil of the moon to gold to incur profits. Without the moonlight and the moon's soil, its inhabitants will perish and in the meantime if the moon's soil erupts and a part of the moon goes to the Earth then there will be many earthquakes in almost all parts of the world, especially in Furfuri Nagar.
• Motu Patlu: Deep Sea Adventure – Motu Patlu are on a ship voyage, but after their ship accidentally sank at the sea, they find out an underwater kingdom dominated by sharks and populated by other sea creatures.
• Motu Patlu: Kung-Fu Kings – An evil martial arts fighter named Tiger Chang comes to Furfuri Nagar and belittles all the residents of Furfuri Nagar including Motu Patlu and their friends. Motu seeks to train from Him Naresh to teach Tiger Chang a lesson.
• Motu Patlu: Khazaane Ki Race – Motu and Patlu clash against John and Mr. Chamku to uncover a treasure hidden in Christmas Mountain.
• Motu Patlu: Kung Fu Kings Returns- When Timtim, the grandson of Him Naresh is kidnapped by a mysterious monster, To find him, Motu Patlu formed a potential alliance with Tiger Chang. They find that the strange monsters have been invited to a competition held by Dr. Snake who is also the father of Timtim who also turned into a snake because of his inventions and kidnapped Timtim. His real name is Himputra.
• Motu Patlu: Carnival Island! – Motu Patlu have to go to Carnival Island to solve the mystery of an old man nicknamed Grandpa's archenemy named Magral on Carnival Island, who is forced to destroy all his creations.
• Motu Patlu: 36 Ghante Race – Motu Patlu race against time for thirty-six hours to solve the theft case of the Golden Car Award.
• Motu Patlu Alien World! – Motu Patlu travel to an extraterrestrial world to rescue Motu's father from the ruler of the planet Axar named Zar.
• Motu Patlu in Double Trouble – After Chingum's marriage, Motu and Patlu mixed with two scientists named Motuji and Patluji who looked just like themselves, and the two villains were fighting to achieve each other's goals.
• Motu Patlu: The Invisible Plane - As an air race going on at Furfuri Nagar Airport, Angara and his soldiers steal the Invisible Plane, the dream of the country. Motu, Patlu, Dr. Jhatka, Chingum and Ghasitaram get a journey to a secret airline facility in the Arctic to find it. They also help the Yetis to save them from the evil Angara.
• Motu Patlu: In Dragon World - Dr. Jhatka took his friends to the world of dragons so that he could do research on dragons there. Along the way, Motu, Patlu and their friends helped a baby green dragon named Dragonie returned to his friends and family with Motu Patlu and protect the family of the green dragons from the black ones.
• Motu Patlu: In Hong Kong Kung Fu Kings 3 - Motu trains with Hong Kong's Boneless Master to defeat Hong Kong's most dangerous villain named Devil Don.
• Motu Patlu: In Octopus World - Motu Patlu befriend a golden fish and a baby octopus while working at an aquarium of Furfuri Nagar. They promised that they would return safely to the sea and help free the family of goldfish from an evil octopus queen who wants to make her skin colour gold.
• Motu Patlu: – In The City Of Gold - Motu and Patlu are introduced to Dilawar Khan, one of the best horse-back riders of the world. After Motu defeated him in a horse-back riding competition in Furfuri Nagar, Dilawar Khan and his wife Gule Bakawali used his simplicity and innocence against him by tricking him into finding the lost city of gold for their own selfishness. Dr. Jhatka, Ghasitaram and Inspector Chingam joined the duo to find the city.
• Motu Patlu: – Dino Invasion - Motu and Patlu need to save Modern City from prehistoric dinosaurs who invaded Modern City through the time machine and Motu and Patlu save them too from an hunter from Africa named Skull by sending them back to their homeland.
• Motu Patlu: The Challenge of Kung Fu Brothers – Motu and Patlu set out on a journey to the outskirts of Tokyo where they meet two evil Kung Fu Brothers and the Kung Fu Brothers beat them because Motu and Patlu beat the people of Kung Fu Brothers because they occupied the Kungfu Teaching School of a Japanese man named Haruto. The brothers want to rule the whole world with their diabolical form of martial arts. Thus they challenged Motu Patlu in the ultimate kung fu battle. They have one month to learn advanced kung fu techniques with Crying Master.

Theatrical movie

• Motu Patlu: King of Kings

Inspector Chingum

A spin-off series titled "Inspector Chingum" originally premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 4 May 2018. It was later telecasted on Hungama TV, Marvel HQ and Disney Channel.

Guddu the Great

A second spin-off series titled "Guddu the Great" based on character from Motu Patlu: King of Kings was launched on Amazon Prime on 1 January 2019.

See also

In Spanish: Motu Patlu para niños