Comments on: Dhoti Man

By: drapeto

drapeto — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

>Was my imagination stunted?

Yes. Well, possibly. Asoka already made into a kickass comic book, though I prefer Humayun qua comic.

And surely an Indian child (ahem!) would be just as much stretching into the universality of human experience by reading about Pavithr (!) Prabhakar or Dawud Chaudhury? I rather like the idea of Spiderman in a veshti.

By: Morcy

Morcy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Um, is this only possible because it took India’s becoming a nuclear power so they could irradiate spiders so as to bite our new protagonist?

As to the actual question posed, well, I dunno. I can tell you that ZÈ Carioca is my favorite of the Three Caballeros because he’s from Rio. Has it ever bothered me that he was created by a studio in Buena Vista? No.

I’m still all wound up by the funny idea that Bloomsday was invented as a holiday by Joyce himself–that he was the one backforming a tradition. There never was a “first” Bloomsday–so celebrating the 100th is kind of silly, but I did it anyway.

More later, I guess.

By: sepoy

sepoy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

drapeto: my grandfather never wore anything besides a dhoti his whole life and my father slipped into one at most convenient times. As wardrobe garments, they are uniquely unsuitable for a superhero. I mean, if Pavtir swings over your head in that thing, you better not look up.
Can you tell more about the Ashoka comic? is it a graphic novel?

By: anon

anon — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

hey
the spiderman may wear dhoti but shouldnt he honour superhero tradition and wear his langot on the outside. think about that marvel comics

By: drapeto

drapeto — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

drapeto: As wardrobe garments, they are uniquely unsuitable for a superhero. I mean, if Pavtir swings over your head in that thing, you better not look up.

oh, i think i’d better look. as long as it not solely to titillate, i think.

anyway, having seen about a million action movies in which lungi-clad antisocial elements face off, i can assure you that you tuck the middle up before you rumble. preferably with one elegant flick of the foot, though i can’t say i have managed it.

re: asoka, graphic novel?!?! do the words “amar chitra katha” mean nothing to you?

By: Aamir

Aamir — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

spiderman in a dhoti is a great idea.but dhoti should be the one sepoy’s grand father used to wear (punjabi dhoti).we have hundreds of action heros in dhotis in punjabi movies ,especially “Maula Jut”.and even now in punjab you wear a certain kind of dhoti kurta and and people would be scared of you.
But ofcourse spiderman in the picture looks more of a village grocery wala with that wrap arround kinda dhoti than a hero of any kind.