ViR: The Robot Boy

ViR: The Robot Boy is an Indian animated kids adventure television series aired on Hungama TV. It is about a humanoid robot boy and his adventures. It is produced by Maya Digital Studios in association with Cosmos Entertainment Pvt. Ltd (Cosmos) based in Singapore. ViR, lives in the fictional city of Fursatganj. It was premiered on 9 November 2013, beginning with episode "Earth In Trouble".

ViR: The Robot Boy
GenreRobots, Science-Fiction, Fearless Leader
Screenplay byNiraj Vikram
Story bySuhas Kadav
Dheeraj Berry
Niraj Vikram
Directed bySuhas Kadav
Presented byKetan Mehta
Theme music composerArghya
Opening theme"ViR: The Robot Boy"
Ending theme"ViR: The Robot Boy"
Country of originIndia
Original languagesHindi, English
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes145 (list of episodes)
Production
ProducerAnish Mehta
CinematographyMaya Digital Studios
Running time30 minutes
Production companyMaya Digital studios
Release
Original networkHungama TV
Original release9 November 2013 (2013-11-09) 
2 December 2016 (2016-12-02)

Vir is a humanoid robot child with human-like qualities, emotions and superhuman abilities. He is a creation of Dr. Prem Sahay and he lives with him. Dr. Sahay is a kind elderly man, and he created Vir for helping others.[1][2] The series follows his humorous escapades as he manages to save the day with his quick thinking and a wide array of robotic abilities, along with his closest friends – Chulbul, the pet donkey, 8-year-old Imli and Gintu.

Episodes

Episode No. Name
1Udney Waley Pankh
2Horse Race
3Andher Nagri
4Picnic
5Trouble in Plane
6Bandar Shahar Ke Andar
7Chalak Chor
8School Inspection
9Bad Company
10Inter-school Championship Trophy
11Magnetic Robot
12Vir ki Patang Baazi
13The Thief Parrot
14Atithi Devo Bhava
15Bina Sar ka Bhoot
16Bag Snatcher
17Cobra the Missile Man
18Missing Chulbul
19Robot Anaconda
20Chulbul the Jungle King
21MR Chadha ka Hawai Safar
22School Camp
23Adrshy Jadugar
24Lallan Daku
25Fursatganj Trip
26Pets Animal Show
27Bura Na Maano Holi Hai
28Behroopia
29Robot Dustbin
30Saving Tiger
31Statue Man
32Yeh Tree Hamara Hai!!!
33Robot Octopus
34The Mind Controller Bee
35Diamond Thief Natwarlal
36Vir ki Sapna
37Robot Exhibition
38Power Plant
39Chalak Pilot
40Electric Timbaktu
41Pintu Jinn
42Robot Appliances
43Football Match
44Imli se Muqabla
45Shooting Stars
46Bunty aur Babli Jasoos
47Ghost Bank Robbery
48Teen Tigada Kaam Bigada
49Threat on Fursatganj
50Nakli Aliens
51Mad Max Shrinks
52Baby Gintu
53Robot Tree
54Magical Bunty
55Laughing Robot
56Ninja Master
57Imli the Karate Girl
58Chulbul in Circus
59Bhooton se Kya Darna
60Vir in Jugnu World
61The Attack of Madmingo
62The Dwarf
63Magical Feather
64Robot Car
65The Black Circle
66Purana Kila
67Inter-school Robot Competition
68Fursatganj Mein Dinosaurs
69The Peacock
70Mad Max's Dark Magnus
71Dance Competition
72Main Kaun Hoon?

Seasons 3 & 4 can be watched at SonyLiv.

Episode No. Name
73Bhool Bhulaiya
74Car Thief
75Lightening Robot
76Mask of Vir
77Vir VS Uncle Jinn
78The Enormous Flower
79Happy Birthday Chulbul!
80Chatori Gintu
81Giant Spider
82Turtle Alien
83Volcano
84Cemento
85Go Cart Race
86Chuhon ki Baraat
87Mad Max ki Bike
88Vir VS Cat Mona
89Floating Vir
90Umbrella Man
91Danger Devil
92Bhoot Bhandar
93Vir VS Toy Robots
94Vir ki Voice
95Dangerous Seven
96Lady Jinn
97Hide and Seek
98Bunty the Robot Boy
99Drama Competition
100Piggy Bank
101Jungle Safari
102Dragoz
103Fursatganj ki Diwali
104Coconuts' Attack
105Powerless Vir
106Merry Christmas Fursatganj
107Vir VS Robot 10
108Lizard Man
109Robot Vir
110Electric Transformer
111Gintu ka Gussa
112Happy Birthday Vir!
113Body-less Aliens
114Train Chase
115Gintu ban Gaya Teacher
116Himalayan Penguins
117Bubble Man Timbaktu
118Vir ki Punishment
119Gintu Meets Chintu
120Robot Hoverraft
121Mr Hat
122Gold Thief Alien
123Boxer Gintu
124Vir's Robot Boy Suit
125Mad Max becomes Dadaji
126Devil Liliputs
127Power of Seven Planets
128Factoroid Attack
129Robot Bee Attack
130Mad Max ki UFO
131Satelite Launch
132Vir VS Yeti
133Timbaktoon ka Jinn
134Earth in Trouble
135Star Alien
136Missing Gintu
137Vir in Dadaji's Brain
138Vir VS Cosmic Wolf Power
139Vir VS Giant Bug
140Robotic Piranha
141Alien Pedro
142Blob Attack
143Invisible Power Attack
144Vir ek Villain
145Student of the Week

Robot Suits

Main

  • Robot Boy Suit: Gives Vir a jetpack and additional powers.
  • Diving Suit: Changes Vir into a scuba-diver and gives him the swimming ability.
  • Wing Suit: Gives Vir the flying ability.
  • Twister Suit: Gives Vir a tornado which can suck everything.
  • Fire Suit: Gives Vir a shield to protect him from fire.
  • Astronaut Suit: Changes Vir to an astronaut.
  • Drilling Suit: Gives Vir a drill to dig.

Rare Suits

  • Lightning Suit: Gives Vir the ability to control lightning and thunder.
  • Sliding Suit: Gives Vir the ability to fly over tunnels.

Compilations

Compilation No. Name of compilation
1School Diaries
2Gintu Gags
3Vir Vs Evils
4Rowdy Robo Attack
5Chadda Uncle
6Wild Animals Fun
7Mad Max's Invention

Characters

  • Vir. Vir is a humanoid robot made by doctor Prem Sahai. He has human-like qualities and has robot gadgets. Vir is often carefree, kind and intelligent, always helping anyone in need. His friends are his pet donkey, Chulbul, his magical jinn, Gintu and his best friend and Imli. His main enemy is Mad Max, an evil scientist who wants to capture him, make duplicates of him and rule over the world with their help. but Vir foils his plans every time, thus saving the world. He has a secret identity, that no one except his friends and dadaji, know. He is the hero of Fursatganj, Robot Boy. He has 7 suits, Robot Boy suit, Diving Suit, Wing-suit, Fire-suit, Twister-Suit, Astronaut-suit, and Drilling-suit. He is a 11-year old robot. Voiced by Vidit Kumar.
  • Imli. Imli is one of Vir's best friends. She is highly intelligent, pretty and is always ready to help anyone that is in trouble. She is also very protective of Vir, and often jumps in to free him from one of Mad Max's traps. Her greatest dislikes are Bunty and his friends, Keki Feki. Her friends are Chulbul, Gintu and Vir, and she has a crush on Vir. She first meets Gintu at 'Bag Snatcher'. Voiced by Roopa Bhimani
  • Gintu. Gintu is one of Vir's friends and is a magical jinn. He is a chubby boy who loves eating all the time and often does mistakes that make no sense. He lacks any intelligence and is very lazy but nevertheless still helps his friends. Whenever he gets hit in the head, he loses his memory. Vir sometimes loses his temper when Gintu does something stupid. His friends are Chulbul, Vir and Imli. When Vir calls him, he says "C-c-c-castor c-c-c-castor! You're my master, you're my master.". Voiced by Anubhav Saha
  • Chulbul . Chulbul is one of Vir's friends who is a donkey. He always accompanies Vir to where he goes and also gets into trouble with him. He loves eating carrots. He often thinks highly of himself but is always beaten. He is always there to help his friends whenever needed. His friends are Imli, Vir and Gintu. He is a 16 year-old donkey. Voiced by Brian Dcosta
  • Chintu . Chintu is Gintu's childhood friend. He only appears in 'Gintu meets Chintu.' Despite his failed ways to separate Gintu and Vir, he can not separate them.
  • Principal Sir. Principal Sir is the headmaster of Vir's school. He is a kind man who always wants the best from his students. Although at first he thought nothing of Vir, he began to admire him after the many times Vir saved the school and therefore Vir is the best known student in the school. Voiced by Trilok Patel.
  • Bunty Chadha. Bunty Chadha is one of Vir's nemesis. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Chadha. Because of his parents' wealth, he thinks that he is the only one that is more powerful than everyone else. Vir attacks Bunty’s father every morning, and when Bunty try’s to save his father, it all ways ends up with Bunty being the one in trouble. Vir is all ways showing Bunty how much better he is than him. Bunty not only hates Vir because he attacks his father, but he also hates him because Vir is always proving that he is better than him. He tries to win and prove to everyone that he's the best. He has two friends, Keki and Feki. Being jealous of Vir, he often finds out that Vir is a robot or a Robot Boy by spying on him, but thanks to Gintu's magic, he never remembers anything. He has an uncle called Bhadijha. Gintu gives him a fake robot suit where its lasers won't harm anyone in 'Bunty the Robot Boy'. Voiced by Sabina Malik.
  • Keki Feki. The two are the followers of Bunty and are bullies. They are twin brothers. They first appear in 'Horse Race'.
  • Mad Max. Mad Max is the antagonist of the series. He is a mad scientist who wants to rule over the world. He wants to capture Vir and make copies of him, and then destroy him. Vir foils his plans every time. His catchphrase is "Mad Max is mad! Very, very mad!". He has a sidekick, or more like a servant named Timbaktoon and a cat named Mona. He also accidentally gets beaten up by Timbaktoon. Voiced by Shailendra Pandey.
  • Timbaktoon. Timbaktoon is the sidekick/ servant of Mad Max and often helps fulfill his plans. He is clumsy and careless, often getting himself into trouble while trying to capture Vir. He also accidentally beats Mad Max up. Voiced by Mayur Vyas.
  • Mona. Mona is the cat companion of Mad Max. She is very arrogant and often compliments Max with the saying “Boss, you’re genius! Super duper genius!”. She only fights against Vir in 'Vir VS Cat Mona'. She is a 9 year-old cat. Voiced by Pooja Punjabi.
  • Dr Prem Sahay/ Dadaji. Dadaji is a scientist who created Vir so he could save the world and its people. Dadaji is a very caring person, and loves and cares for Vir very much. Dadaji's enemy is also Mad Max, and in the episode "Nakli Aliens" it is shown that they knew each other even before Vir was made. Vir deeply cares about Dadaji and is very protective of him. Voiced by Ajay Singhal
  • Nanaji/ Magical jinn. Nanaji is the grandfather of Gintu. He is also as big as Gintu and also loves eating. He first appears in the episode "Baby Gintu" as to help Gintu turn into a boy again after he turns himself into a little baby. He is a kind man with extraordinary powers.
  • Mr. Chadha. Mr. Chadha is Bunty's father. He is a wealthy man who is continuously, and unknowingly by him, getting accidentally beaten up by (mostly) Vir and (sometimes) his friends. He is the second person to sometimes find out that Vir is a Robot Boy the first one being his son. He is a kind and sometimes self-centered man. Voiced by Nandkishore Pandey.
  • Mrs. Chadha. Mrs. Chadha is Bunty's mother. She is in short words and kind woman who loves looking nice and beautiful and always gets annoyed by her son's ridiculous acts. Voiced by Meena Nahata.
  • Babli. Babli is Bunty's stuck-up self-centered cousin. She only appears in 'Bunty And Babli Detectives' where she, with Bunty, try to find out the truth behind Vir, and comically fail, because of Gintu's magic.
  • Mr. Sinha. Mr. Sinha is Imli's caring and kind father. Not much is said about him and neither does he appear in many episodes. He first appears at 'Horse Race'. Also voiced by Mayur Vyas.
  • Mrs. Sinha. Mrs. Sinha is Imli's pretty and kind mother. Not much is known about her either. She also first appears in 'Horse Race'. Voiced by Mausum.
  • Munnu. Munnu is a cute little kid and a friend of Vir's. He is a adorable 4-year-old who looks up to Vir. He doesn't appear in many episodes. Voiced by Sinha.
  • Kakkad Sir. Kakkad Sir is a stoic, stubborn teacher at Vir's school. As mentioned, he is very stoic and doesn't like to be bothered or interrupted. He also dislikes Vir and is often trying to prove the boy wrong in front of Principal Sir. His attempts, however, always fail. Also voiced by Shailendra Pandey.
  • Ramu, Nathu, Michael, Simon. They are thieves from Mad Max's company. After Mad Max fired them out, they worked for other villains like Uncle Bhadijha. They appear in some episodes.
  • Uncle Bhadijha. He is Bunty's uncle. He was a hunter who wanted to catch animals. After Vir won against him, he never kidnapped animals. He only appears in 'The Peacock'. Also voiced by Nandkishore Pandey.
  • Bulbul. He is donkey opposite of Chulbul. After Gintu got him to Vir, Vir thought that he was Chulbul. He kicked Vir and Bunty. He only appears at 'Missing Chulbul'.
  • Pintu. Pintu is a bad jinn. He kidnapped Gintu in a bottle. After Vir released Gintu, Vir fought Pintu in his Twister Suit. Pintu was about to catch Vir, but the bottle Gintu was trapped was big. As Pintu entered in it, the bottle shrunk. Vir sent Pintu to Genie-land. He only appears on 'Pintu Jinn'. Also voiced by Anubhav Saha.
  • Launderer Bir. He is a launderer. After seeing Chulbul eating carrots, he led a carrot path. As Chulbul entered it, he got kidnapped by him. But Vir shot lasers in Bir's henchmen. Chulbul got safe. Bir only appears in 'Missing Chulbul'.
  • Mad Robots. They are Mad Max's henchmen. When Mad Max calls them, they prove to attack Vir. But Vir attacks them badly in the end of every episode.
  • Eeka Beeka Deeka Teeka. They are a group of monkeys who created chaos by stealing Mrs Chadha's jewellery, on Bandar Shahar ke Andhar, but in the end, they became friends with Vir.
  • Bandar Raja". He is a Monkey who is the boss of Eeka, Beeka, Deeka, & Teeka.

Theme song

  • "Vir The Robot Boy Dimaag Hai Computer Se Taiz" he is very smart and very strong as well.

Reception

The series received a mixed reception. It was well-received with children between ages 5–8 being able to relate to the character of ViR.

See also

References

  1. Milligan, Mercedes (19 May 2016). "Cosmos-Maya Leads Regional Animation Production". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  2. "ViR The Robot Boy - Cosmos - Maya - Products". Asia TV Forum. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
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