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Captain Vyom - The Sky Warrior | |
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Genre | Science fiction, Action |
Created by | Ketan Mehta |
Starring | Milind Soman Tom Alter |
Opening theme | 'Captain Vyom' by ?? |
Country of origin | India |
Language(s) | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 54[1] |
Production | |
Running time | Approx. 24 mintues |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | DDNational |
Picture format | 480iSDTV |
Captain Vyom is an Indian science fictiontelevision series that aired on DD National channel in the late 1990s. Theseries aired in India on DD1 every Sunday morning at 10. It becameextremely popular among youth because of its concept of timemachine and the world of 2220. It stars the famous model Milind Soman as theprotagonist, Vyom. Later on, the series was re-aired on SAB TV channel.
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Setting
In 2220 A.D. mankind has conquered the solar system and isreaching out into space. Earth is ruled by a World Government, withheadquarters in Delhi. Space stations have been established on manyplanets of the Solar System. One of these stations is a highsecurity prison on Io, a moon of Jupiter. Here, the twelve mostdangerous criminals are held up in suspended animation. Each one ofthem is an expert in their field. When a meteorite strike hits thebase, destroying its security system, these criminals break freeand escape. The Earth Government assigns its top law enforcer,Captain Vyom, the mission to arrest these fugitives. Vyom is theson of one of the Earth's top scientists and the grandson of theruler of the Parajeevs from the thirteenth dimension, a race ofbeings ten million years ahead of us in civilization. He wasbrought up in a monastery in Ladakh, and he has yogic powers ofconcentration. Vyom, with his special crew, leaves for the missionin a spaceship named Ulka.
Cast andcharacters
The crew
- Captain Vyom (always dressed in tanned leathersuit): Played by handsome Milind Soman. An orphan with a mysteriouspast, but dedicated to his line of duty. It was later revealed thathe is half human and half Parajeev (literally meaning parasite, abreed of body snatching aliens). His father was famous scientistDr. Om Swaroop (also played by Soman) and his mother wasParchhaayee, the daughter of Kaala Saaya (the emperor of theParajeevs). His abilities include all the basic virtues of asoldier, along with excellent leadership qualities and keeping cooleven under the worst of circumstances. In one episode being halfParajeev, it was seen that his body was unaffected by any sort ofharmful radiation and he could hold his breath longer than a normalhuman being.
- Commander Pablo (always seen in navy bluesuit): The pilot and Big Bob of the ship, oldest of the crew, witha very sad past. He always kept himself busy and tried to maintaina light mood to avoid contact with his melancholic past andalcohol. It seems as if he had become an alcoholic in the pastafter losing his family.
- Lieutenant Maya (earlier dressed in red andlater in royal blue suit): Played by the gorgeous Kartika Devi Rane,Maya was a psychology student. She has a slight romantic interestin Captain Vyom but she tries her best not to let her emotions comein way of her duty and the discipline of the ship. She was presentat Io at the time of the prison break.
- Captain Blaze (always dressed in black,sleeveless deep neck suit): Played by the flamboyant Sanjay M.Singh, muscular hunk of the ship. In charge of the defence andweapons. He was second in command to Captain Vyom. He was engagedto Chhaya, (the twin sister of Maya), who had died recently. Heoften felt drawn towards Maya, because of her resemblance toChhaya, which created an awkward situation for both Maya and Blaze.From his attitude and appearance he looked American.
- Dr. Zen (always dressed in a white suite):Played by DivyaPalat, Dr Zen was the doctor and biologist in the ship. Anotherbabe for the Glam factor, although her spouse or love interest wasnever mentioned. She was the regular victim of being flirted andhit upon by the villains.
- Fuller(always dressed in silver grey suite):European by his appearance and attitude, he is the engineer of theship. A gizmo freak and slightly arrogant but nerdy. The geniusinventor had designed the ship Ulka along with Pablo, His inventionSYD-E, an android root also served as a member of the crew.
- SYD-E: An android robot invented by Fuller. Played byShahzaad Saeed. Because of his exact human appearance, he was oftenmistaken for a normal human being. Although a robot, he was treatedand regarded as an equivalent member of the ship. He often servedas a comic relief by taking normal conversations and sarcasm asorders.
- Surya: A teenager on the ship. Played by JetoSanjana. With all the typical sides of a kid being honest, truthfuland juvenile. He was mostly seen assisting either Commander Pabloor Dr Zen. Commander Pablo acted as a father figure to him.
Othernotable characters
- Vishwapramukh: Played by Tom Alter, the president of the worldgovernment. Dressed up in suit with a pattern of the British Flag.He has a very strong faith in Captain Vyom. And he made a remarkthat Captain Vyom was the only soldier in the entire universe whocan do such a gruesome task of arresting the twelve criminals.
- Astro-Guru: Real name Chandrakant Shastri, thewisest man in the entire universe (with a white beard) and a hugelaboratory. He was the inventor of the only time machine in theworld and sent captain Vyom to the past, in the present time. Hewas often consulted by Vishwapramukh and Captain Vyom in case ofdifficult situations. According to the timeline of the show, he wasat least two hundred years old. His real name was revealed in thetime travel sequence and his young appearance was seen only in twoepisodes.
- Dr. Om Swaroop: Also played by Milind Somanwas a renowned scientist, dedicated to his research of theuniverse. Kaala Saaya (the kingpin of the villains) had planned toassassinate him, because he believed that Dr Om Swaroop had thepotential to actually fail his invasion of the Earth. Dr Swaroophad invented G-Gun with which Parajeevs can be killed.
- Parchhaayee: Played by the dusky beauty NethraRaghuraman. She was the daughter of Kaala Saaya, and was sentto kill Dr. Om Swaroop. She could shoot alpha rays from her eyes.She took over the body of Naina, Dr. Om Swaroop’s wife. Uponrealising the true intentions of her father and falling in lovewith Dr. Om Swaroop, she betrayed her father fled to the fifteenthdimension with Dr. Om Swaroop.
- Kaala Saaya: The emperor of the Parajeevs, arace of body snatcher aliens, pitch black in colour. He was amegalomaniac, but very cunning and brave with an ambition of takingover the universe, starting with the Earth. He considered thetwelve fugitives as worthless as compared to his strength andambition. He sent his daughter Parchhaayee to assassinate Dr. OmSwaroop and an alien to take over the crew of Ulka, while CaptainVyom was in the past, the alien was captured by Dr. Zen by a sprayof liquid nitrogen. He ultimately surrendered in a duel to CaptainVyom in the last episode on the condition that Captain Vyom becomesthe ruler of Parajeevs.
- Naina: Also played by Nethra Raghuraman, sheis the wife of Dr Om Swaroop, but she was taken over byParchhaayee.
- Ambika: The girlfriend of Chandrakant Shastri,appeared only in the time travel sequence in two episodes. A newsreporter, served more as a comic relief because of her excessivecuriosity.
The twelvefugitives
(in order of their appearances in the show)
- Teja: A megalomaniac alien with a wasp likeappearance. The last of his kind, belonged to the race of alienswho depended upon the light of their star. He invented a technologyto create gigantic lenses in space to increase the intensity of thelight of a star. But he burned his planet using his machine. Nowthreatening to burn the Earth, he demanded for being the emperor ofthe earth, and a queen. Blaze and Maya were sent to arrest him.Maya seduced him by saying she would love to be the queen of earthand a suitor for such a powerful being. Blaze threw a pitch blackchemical over Teja to make him unconscious and arrest him.
- Paras: An expert alchemist, with goldencoloured skin, he always spoke in rhymes. He had the technology toconvert the chemical structure of any substance, like turning sandto gold and stones to diamonds. His ship was all covered with gold,and gems and jewels and considered stealing wealth as pointlessbecause he could create gold himself. His only weakness was that hecould not create mercury, and also had the addiction of sniffingmercury. He threatened to destroy earth by converting the water onearth into radio active element. Demanding the “Elixir Of Life”kept in maximum security in the palace of Vishwapramukh. CaptainVyom stole his jar of mercury and arrested him while trading itwith the jar of the “Elixir Of Life”.
- Chhalasur: A master of trickery and an expertillusionist. He regarded himself as an artist just performing in ashow. He was able to kidnap Maya. He sent Chaya to kill Vyom andothers. Chaya was hypnotized. But later on she was normal. Chaya,Vyom and Blaze went to Chhalasur's ship to bring Maya back and tocapture Chhalasur. In a gruesome fight chaya was killed in order tosave Blaze. Captain Vyom and others escaped with Maya. Chhalasurwas killed in an explosion from a device which was installed in hisship by Captain Vyom.
- Mohini: An expert in hypnotism, she couldseduce and take control over any man by taking the form of thewomen of his fantasies. Though she was crippled and ugly in realityand her true appearance was revealed in her mirror reflection,causing her spell to break. Also a master in combat and weapons.After her escape from Io, she seduced the workers of a sulphur mineon Venus. Blaze and SYD-E were sent to arrest her. After agruelling sword fight, (with Blaze carrying a shield with a mirrorto see her true appearance) she outsmarted Captain Blaze,hypnotizing him and blowing up SYD-E’s head. She entered in Ulkaand hypnotised every man of the crew. It was Dr. Zen and Maya whoultimately captured her, because being a woman herself Mohini couldnot seduce a woman.
- Durgati (played by Sushmita Mukharjee): Theloud mouth biologist who took pleasure in plaguing entirecivilisations. She nearly plagued the crew of Ulka, Pablo being themost seriously hit, resulting in Vyom serving as the substitutepilot. She specially wanted to kill Dr. Zen, and it was revealed byDr. Zen that Durgati was her classmate and was in feud with hersince early days. Durgati was killed by vyom with a lethal virusshe had kept in store “specially” for Dr. Zen.
- Morpha: A shape shifting alien who could takethe form of any living being. His father Murphy was a renowneddiplomat. Murphy volunteered to help the crew of the staff toarrest Morpha. Morpha entered Ulka under disguise and strangled hisfather, who while dying chewed his finger so that he could berecognised under any disguise. After hiding in the ship for a longtime under the guise of Maya, Blaze identified him. Morpha went ina fist fight with Vyom, while taking the form of Vyom. During thefight Morpha chewed up the finger of Vyom, leaving a confused Mayaand Blaze as whom to shoot.
- Kineto: A notorious and sadist psychic, whocould do anything by the power of his mind, including moving thingsto changing the forms of things (he turned Surya into a giantinsect). He took pleasure in seeing his victims suffer. Heattempted to kidnap Shakti, (the adopted daughter of Vishwapramukh)during her trip into deep space to see a supernova. Shakti wasrescued by Vyom before Kineto could kidnap her. She was brought toUlka, where Maya grew jealous by her beauty and her fondnesstowards Vyom and went in with a Star Wars like fight withilluminated swords. Kynato attacked Ulka, and it was revealed byDr. Zen that Kineto too was made in a laboratory by a scientistusing the same technique he used later to create Shakti, and Kynatowanted to replace his aging life force by the young life force ofShakti saying that with such powerful and restless mind consumedlots of life force. Kynato was killed by Shakti when she convertedherself into energy & destroyed the energy of Kynato. Shaktiwas played by Perizaad Zorabian.
- Sonic (played by Dino Morea): The lord of sound waves. Hisweapon was in the shape of a giant piano with only six notes (asopposed to seven in a Sargam), which he could use to causedestruction. He also carried a small wooden mouth organ (soundingmore like pan flute) that could hypnotise any person, putting himunder his control. He hypnotized an entire human settlement overmars. His plan was spoiled by Surya who broke the rhythm of histunes by loudly chanting “OM” along with the children of thatsettlement. He was captured by vyom. He was married to Venom, whowas bearing his child.
- Venom (played by supermodel Madhu Sapre and laterby Achint Kaur): Anexpert of poisons and toxins, herself had a snake like appearance.Her breath could paralyze anyone and her bite caused immediatedeath. Upon the death of her husband Sonic she attacked Ulkaseeking revenge, especially against Surya. She paralyzed the crewof the ship, except Captain Vyom who was in mars at that moment,and bited Surya. She also bit SYD-E, thinking he was human. But herfangs got stuck in SYD-E’s arm, and SYD-E knocked her unconscious.The entire crew was saved by vyom with help from astroguru whohelped him to develop an antidote, but Surya was left blinded inthe episode. As a result, he had to withdraw from the mission.
- Gravito: An alien and an ex member of the armyof the universe. As his name suggests he was an expert inmanipulating the forces of gravity by using his technology. He wasadmired upon by Vyom and Pablo for his bravery and strength. Heattempted to destroy the temporary prison where the arrestedfugitives were held. He nearly succeeded when he malfunctioned theartificial gravity system of Ulka, but the crew of Ulka had beensent to the temporary prison, leaving behind Dr. Zen and CaptainVyom, who manually repaired the artificial gravity control whilefloating in the air. Gravito attacked the new prison and increasedthe gravity of the place several times causing everybody to falland get stuck to the ground. He was attacked from behind by CaptainVyom when he was escaping to sun to recharge his ship's power.
- Computo: A cyborg, half human, half computer.He had teamed up with Gravito. While Dr. Zen and Captain Vyom werebusy in repairing the artificial gravity control of their ship,Computo entered the Mother Computer, (the main server on earthreigning over all the computers of the world), through the systemof Ulka. Captain Vyom went inside the mainframe of mother computerwearing a radiation proof space suit in an attempt to reboot theMother Computer manually. Computo went in a fist fight with Vyom,tearing his suit. It was then revealed that Vyom had no effects ofradiation over him, while Commander Pablo suffered a burned arm inan attempt to pull him out.
- Vikaal (played by Rahul Bose and later by Ken Philips): Asociopath, with an ability to travel in short durations of time.After escaping from Io, he entered the laboratory of Astroguru, andupgraded his powers to travel back in time to the present time.Captain Vyom, along with SYD-E followed him using the time machinemade by Astroguru. It was then that Captain Vyom confronted hisparents. He was killed by Vyom when he was trying to kill Vyom'sfather.
CharacterDetails
Real Name: Vyom
Identity/Class: Human/extra-dimensional hybrid, armedwith advanced technology
His Job: Defender of the Earth and the spaceways.
Affiliations: Agent of the World Government
Enemies: The 12 criminals viz Teja, Vikal, Morpho,Computo, Mohini, Paras, Gravito, Kineto, Sonic, Venom, Durgati,Chhalasur (These are the prisoners who escaped from the prison onthe moon of Jupiter named Io)
Known Relatives: father Dr. Om Swarup (a brilliantscientist); mother Parchhaayee; maternal grandfather Kaala Saaya(ruler of the parasites from the 13th Dimension)
Aliases: The Sky Warrior
Base of Operations: Outer space
First Appearance: Unknown
Powers/Abilities: Yogic powers of concentration,immunity to radiation.
Trivia
- Although not India’s first sci-fi show, it was considered aheadof its time because of the advanced graphics (never seen before onIndian television) and screenplay it had. The show was a greatsuccess and still has reruns on Pogo TV. Despite being a kids program, theshow found a huge fan following among adults too, nearly gaining acult status.
- Except the control room of Ulka, the show never had any realsets. They were all computer generated graphics.
- The production house set up a separate animation studio namedMaya for the show. It is now a renowned instituteof animations and graphics designing in India.
- Supermodel Madhu Sapre, the then fiancé of Milind Soman playedthe role of Venom, although they barely had any scenestogether.
- The glamour factor associated with the show was very highbecause most characters were played by top models of the IndianGlamour world. Karthika Devi Raney herself was the hottest propertyon the Indian television those days.
- Diamond Comics published a comic book series based on thisserial.[2]
See also
References
- ^[1]
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Externallinks
- An interview with KetanMehta
- An interview with MilindSoman
- Captain Vyom at a Comic Booksite
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Captain Vyom - The Sky Warrior | |
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Genre | Science fiction, Action |
Created by | Ketan Mehta |
Starring | Milind Soman Tom Alter |
Opening theme | 'Captain Vyom' by ?? |
Country of origin | India |
Language(s) | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 54[1] |
Production | |
Running time | Approx. 24 mintues |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | DDNational |
Picture format | 480iSDTV |
Captain Vyom is an Indian science fictiontelevision series that aired on DD National channel in the late 1990s. Theseries aired in India on DD1 every Sunday morning at 10. It becameextremely popular among youth because of its concept of timemachine and the world of 2220. It stars the famous model Milind Soman as theprotagonist, Vyom. Later on, the series was re-aired on SAB TV channel.
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Setting
In 2220 A.D. mankind has conquered the solar system and isreaching out into space. Earth is ruled by a World Government, withheadquarters in Delhi. Space stations have been established on manyplanets of the Solar System. One of these stations is a highsecurity prison on Io, a moon of Jupiter. Here, the twelve mostdangerous criminals are held up in suspended animation. Each one ofthem is an expert in their field. When a meteorite strike hits thebase, destroying its security system, these criminals break freeand escape. The Earth Government assigns its top law enforcer,Captain Vyom, the mission to arrest these fugitives. Vyom is theson of one of the Earth's top scientists and the grandson of theruler of the Parajeevs from the thirteenth dimension, a race ofbeings ten million years ahead of us in civilization. He wasbrought up in a monastery in Ladakh, and he has yogic powers ofconcentration. Vyom, with his special crew, leaves for the missionin a spaceship named Ulka.
Cast andcharacters
The crew
- Captain Vyom (always dressed in tanned leathersuit): Played by handsome Milind Soman. An orphan with a mysteriouspast, but dedicated to his line of duty. It was later revealed thathe is half human and half Parajeev (literally meaning parasite, abreed of body snatching aliens). His father was famous scientistDr. Om Swaroop (also played by Soman) and his mother wasParchhaayee, the daughter of Kaala Saaya (the emperor of theParajeevs). His abilities include all the basic virtues of asoldier, along with excellent leadership qualities and keeping cooleven under the worst of circumstances. In one episode being halfParajeev, it was seen that his body was unaffected by any sort ofharmful radiation and he could hold his breath longer than a normalhuman being.
- Commander Pablo (always seen in navy bluesuit): The pilot and Big Bob of the ship, oldest of the crew, witha very sad past. He always kept himself busy and tried to maintaina light mood to avoid contact with his melancholic past andalcohol. It seems as if he had become an alcoholic in the pastafter losing his family.
- Lieutenant Maya (earlier dressed in red andlater in royal blue suit): Played by the gorgeous Kartika Devi Rane,Maya was a psychology student. She has a slight romantic interestin Captain Vyom but she tries her best not to let her emotions comein way of her duty and the discipline of the ship. She was presentat Io at the time of the prison break.
- Captain Blaze (always dressed in black,sleeveless deep neck suit): Played by the flamboyant Sanjay M.Singh, muscular hunk of the ship. In charge of the defence andweapons. He was second in command to Captain Vyom. He was engagedto Chhaya, (the twin sister of Maya), who had died recently. Heoften felt drawn towards Maya, because of her resemblance toChhaya, which created an awkward situation for both Maya and Blaze.From his attitude and appearance he looked American.
- Dr. Zen (always dressed in a white suite):Played by DivyaPalat, Dr Zen was the doctor and biologist in the ship. Anotherbabe for the Glam factor, although her spouse or love interest wasnever mentioned. She was the regular victim of being flirted andhit upon by the villains.
- Fuller(always dressed in silver grey suite):European by his appearance and attitude, he is the engineer of theship. A gizmo freak and slightly arrogant but nerdy. The geniusinventor had designed the ship Ulka along with Pablo, His inventionSYD-E, an android root also served as a member of the crew.
- SYD-E: An android robot invented by Fuller. Played byShahzaad Saeed. Because of his exact human appearance, he was oftenmistaken for a normal human being. Although a robot, he was treatedand regarded as an equivalent member of the ship. He often servedas a comic relief by taking normal conversations and sarcasm asorders.
- Surya: A teenager on the ship. Played by JetoSanjana. With all the typical sides of a kid being honest, truthfuland juvenile. He was mostly seen assisting either Commander Pabloor Dr Zen. Commander Pablo acted as a father figure to him.
Othernotable characters
- Vishwapramukh: Played by Tom Alter, the president of the worldgovernment. Dressed up in suit with a pattern of the British Flag.He has a very strong faith in Captain Vyom. And he made a remarkthat Captain Vyom was the only soldier in the entire universe whocan do such a gruesome task of arresting the twelve criminals.
- Astro-Guru: Real name Chandrakant Shastri, thewisest man in the entire universe (with a white beard) and a hugelaboratory. He was the inventor of the only time machine in theworld and sent captain Vyom to the past, in the present time. Hewas often consulted by Vishwapramukh and Captain Vyom in case ofdifficult situations. According to the timeline of the show, he wasat least two hundred years old. His real name was revealed in thetime travel sequence and his young appearance was seen only in twoepisodes.
- Dr. Om Swaroop: Also played by Milind Somanwas a renowned scientist, dedicated to his research of theuniverse. Kaala Saaya (the kingpin of the villains) had planned toassassinate him, because he believed that Dr Om Swaroop had thepotential to actually fail his invasion of the Earth. Dr Swaroophad invented G-Gun with which Parajeevs can be killed.
- Parchhaayee: Played by the dusky beauty NethraRaghuraman. She was the daughter of Kaala Saaya, and was sentto kill Dr. Om Swaroop. She could shoot alpha rays from her eyes.She took over the body of Naina, Dr. Om Swaroop’s wife. Uponrealising the true intentions of her father and falling in lovewith Dr. Om Swaroop, she betrayed her father fled to the fifteenthdimension with Dr. Om Swaroop.
- Kaala Saaya: The emperor of the Parajeevs, arace of body snatcher aliens, pitch black in colour. He was amegalomaniac, but very cunning and brave with an ambition of takingover the universe, starting with the Earth. He considered thetwelve fugitives as worthless as compared to his strength andambition. He sent his daughter Parchhaayee to assassinate Dr. OmSwaroop and an alien to take over the crew of Ulka, while CaptainVyom was in the past, the alien was captured by Dr. Zen by a sprayof liquid nitrogen. He ultimately surrendered in a duel to CaptainVyom in the last episode on the condition that Captain Vyom becomesthe ruler of Parajeevs.
- Naina: Also played by Nethra Raghuraman, sheis the wife of Dr Om Swaroop, but she was taken over byParchhaayee.
- Ambika: The girlfriend of Chandrakant Shastri,appeared only in the time travel sequence in two episodes. A newsreporter, served more as a comic relief because of her excessivecuriosity.
The twelvefugitives
(in order of their appearances in the show)
- Teja: A megalomaniac alien with a wasp likeappearance. The last of his kind, belonged to the race of alienswho depended upon the light of their star. He invented a technologyto create gigantic lenses in space to increase the intensity of thelight of a star. But he burned his planet using his machine. Nowthreatening to burn the Earth, he demanded for being the emperor ofthe earth, and a queen. Blaze and Maya were sent to arrest him.Maya seduced him by saying she would love to be the queen of earthand a suitor for such a powerful being. Blaze threw a pitch blackchemical over Teja to make him unconscious and arrest him.
- Paras: An expert alchemist, with goldencoloured skin, he always spoke in rhymes. He had the technology toconvert the chemical structure of any substance, like turning sandto gold and stones to diamonds. His ship was all covered with gold,and gems and jewels and considered stealing wealth as pointlessbecause he could create gold himself. His only weakness was that hecould not create mercury, and also had the addiction of sniffingmercury. He threatened to destroy earth by converting the water onearth into radio active element. Demanding the “Elixir Of Life”kept in maximum security in the palace of Vishwapramukh. CaptainVyom stole his jar of mercury and arrested him while trading itwith the jar of the “Elixir Of Life”.
- Chhalasur: A master of trickery and an expertillusionist. He regarded himself as an artist just performing in ashow. He was able to kidnap Maya. He sent Chaya to kill Vyom andothers. Chaya was hypnotized. But later on she was normal. Chaya,Vyom and Blaze went to Chhalasur's ship to bring Maya back and tocapture Chhalasur. In a gruesome fight chaya was killed in order tosave Blaze. Captain Vyom and others escaped with Maya. Chhalasurwas killed in an explosion from a device which was installed in hisship by Captain Vyom.
- Mohini: An expert in hypnotism, she couldseduce and take control over any man by taking the form of thewomen of his fantasies. Though she was crippled and ugly in realityand her true appearance was revealed in her mirror reflection,causing her spell to break. Also a master in combat and weapons.After her escape from Io, she seduced the workers of a sulphur mineon Venus. Blaze and SYD-E were sent to arrest her. After agruelling sword fight, (with Blaze carrying a shield with a mirrorto see her true appearance) she outsmarted Captain Blaze,hypnotizing him and blowing up SYD-E’s head. She entered in Ulkaand hypnotised every man of the crew. It was Dr. Zen and Maya whoultimately captured her, because being a woman herself Mohini couldnot seduce a woman.
- Durgati (played by Sushmita Mukharjee): Theloud mouth biologist who took pleasure in plaguing entirecivilisations. She nearly plagued the crew of Ulka, Pablo being themost seriously hit, resulting in Vyom serving as the substitutepilot. She specially wanted to kill Dr. Zen, and it was revealed byDr. Zen that Durgati was her classmate and was in feud with hersince early days. Durgati was killed by vyom with a lethal virusshe had kept in store “specially” for Dr. Zen.
- Morpha: A shape shifting alien who could takethe form of any living being. His father Murphy was a renowneddiplomat. Murphy volunteered to help the crew of the staff toarrest Morpha. Morpha entered Ulka under disguise and strangled hisfather, who while dying chewed his finger so that he could berecognised under any disguise. After hiding in the ship for a longtime under the guise of Maya, Blaze identified him. Morpha went ina fist fight with Vyom, while taking the form of Vyom. During thefight Morpha chewed up the finger of Vyom, leaving a confused Mayaand Blaze as whom to shoot.
- Kineto: A notorious and sadist psychic, whocould do anything by the power of his mind, including moving thingsto changing the forms of things (he turned Surya into a giantinsect). He took pleasure in seeing his victims suffer. Heattempted to kidnap Shakti, (the adopted daughter of Vishwapramukh)during her trip into deep space to see a supernova. Shakti wasrescued by Vyom before Kineto could kidnap her. She was brought toUlka, where Maya grew jealous by her beauty and her fondnesstowards Vyom and went in with a Star Wars like fight withilluminated swords. Kynato attacked Ulka, and it was revealed byDr. Zen that Kineto too was made in a laboratory by a scientistusing the same technique he used later to create Shakti, and Kynatowanted to replace his aging life force by the young life force ofShakti saying that with such powerful and restless mind consumedlots of life force. Kynato was killed by Shakti when she convertedherself into energy & destroyed the energy of Kynato. Shaktiwas played by Perizaad Zorabian.
- Sonic (played by Dino Morea): The lord of sound waves. Hisweapon was in the shape of a giant piano with only six notes (asopposed to seven in a Sargam), which he could use to causedestruction. He also carried a small wooden mouth organ (soundingmore like pan flute) that could hypnotise any person, putting himunder his control. He hypnotized an entire human settlement overmars. His plan was spoiled by Surya who broke the rhythm of histunes by loudly chanting “OM” along with the children of thatsettlement. He was captured by vyom. He was married to Venom, whowas bearing his child.
- Venom (played by supermodel Madhu Sapre and laterby Achint Kaur): Anexpert of poisons and toxins, herself had a snake like appearance.Her breath could paralyze anyone and her bite caused immediatedeath. Upon the death of her husband Sonic she attacked Ulkaseeking revenge, especially against Surya. She paralyzed the crewof the ship, except Captain Vyom who was in mars at that moment,and bited Surya. She also bit SYD-E, thinking he was human. But herfangs got stuck in SYD-E’s arm, and SYD-E knocked her unconscious.The entire crew was saved by vyom with help from astroguru whohelped him to develop an antidote, but Surya was left blinded inthe episode. As a result, he had to withdraw from the mission.
- Gravito: An alien and an ex member of the armyof the universe. As his name suggests he was an expert inmanipulating the forces of gravity by using his technology. He wasadmired upon by Vyom and Pablo for his bravery and strength. Heattempted to destroy the temporary prison where the arrestedfugitives were held. He nearly succeeded when he malfunctioned theartificial gravity system of Ulka, but the crew of Ulka had beensent to the temporary prison, leaving behind Dr. Zen and CaptainVyom, who manually repaired the artificial gravity control whilefloating in the air. Gravito attacked the new prison and increasedthe gravity of the place several times causing everybody to falland get stuck to the ground. He was attacked from behind by CaptainVyom when he was escaping to sun to recharge his ship's power.
- Computo: A cyborg, half human, half computer.He had teamed up with Gravito. While Dr. Zen and Captain Vyom werebusy in repairing the artificial gravity control of their ship,Computo entered the Mother Computer, (the main server on earthreigning over all the computers of the world), through the systemof Ulka. Captain Vyom went inside the mainframe of mother computerwearing a radiation proof space suit in an attempt to reboot theMother Computer manually. Computo went in a fist fight with Vyom,tearing his suit. It was then revealed that Vyom had no effects ofradiation over him, while Commander Pablo suffered a burned arm inan attempt to pull him out.
- Vikaal (played by Rahul Bose and later by Ken Philips): Asociopath, with an ability to travel in short durations of time.After escaping from Io, he entered the laboratory of Astroguru, andupgraded his powers to travel back in time to the present time.Captain Vyom, along with SYD-E followed him using the time machinemade by Astroguru. It was then that Captain Vyom confronted hisparents. He was killed by Vyom when he was trying to kill Vyom'sfather.
CharacterDetails
Real Name: Vyom
Identity/Class: Human/extra-dimensional hybrid, armedwith advanced technology
His Job: Defender of the Earth and the spaceways.
Affiliations: Agent of the World Government
Enemies: The 12 criminals viz Teja, Vikal, Morpho,Computo, Mohini, Paras, Gravito, Kineto, Sonic, Venom, Durgati,Chhalasur (These are the prisoners who escaped from the prison onthe moon of Jupiter named Io)
Known Relatives: father Dr. Om Swarup (a brilliantscientist); mother Parchhaayee; maternal grandfather Kaala Saaya(ruler of the parasites from the 13th Dimension)
Aliases: The Sky Warrior
Base of Operations: Outer space
First Appearance: Unknown
Powers/Abilities: Yogic powers of concentration,immunity to radiation.
Trivia
- Although not India’s first sci-fi show, it was considered aheadof its time because of the advanced graphics (never seen before onIndian television) and screenplay it had. The show was a greatsuccess and still has reruns on Pogo TV. Despite being a kids program, theshow found a huge fan following among adults too, nearly gaining acult status.
- Except the control room of Ulka, the show never had any realsets. They were all computer generated graphics.
- The production house set up a separate animation studio namedMaya for the show. It is now a renowned instituteof animations and graphics designing in India.
- Supermodel Madhu Sapre, the then fiancé of Milind Soman playedthe role of Venom, although they barely had any scenestogether.
- The glamour factor associated with the show was very highbecause most characters were played by top models of the IndianGlamour world. Karthika Devi Raney herself was the hottest propertyon the Indian television those days.
- Diamond Comics published a comic book series based on thisserial.[2]
See also
References
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Externallinks
- An interview with KetanMehta
- An interview with MilindSoman
- Captain Vyom at a Comic Booksite
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