Motu Patlu

Plot

Characters

Main characters

• Motu: Motu is a plump man who serves as one of the show's central protagonists. He likes to eat samosas which provides him power. He is a gardener. 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 get to eat a lot of samosas, even if it means landing himself in trouble. 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 recently back to the past. He is also shown bragging about something he has never done.But he is a good-natured man who wants to help others. Unfortunately, is easily fooled by others, especially Jon. He wears a red tunic with a navy blue vest, yellow pyjamas, and shoes. His talking accent looks influenced by Dara Singh. When he eats samosas his powers increase drastically and he gets ability to defeat his superior rivals. He is depicted as extremely afraid of mice. His father is believed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials from Axar during his search for extraterrestrial lifeforms in the universe.
• 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. He often gets into trouble along with Motu but he manages to help himself and Motu when they land in trouble. He always advises Motu to be in their normal track and thus lead a "danger-free" life, but he can always be coaxed by Motu into helping him. He dislikes samosas but loves to read newspapers. It is also believed that his grandfather was a boxing champion and had a recipe for procuring extraordinary strength, which is later discovered by Motu. He wears a yellow tunic with orange leggings, brown-framed glasses, and brown shoes.

• Dr. Jhatka: Dr. Jhatka is an eccentric scientist. His accent is like a sardar, so he is referred to as a Punjabi. His inventions are usually very impressive but are of little use to the townspeople. In fact, more times than not they end up landing someone in trouble. He drives a yellow flying car. Jhatka is known by his balding hair, green shirt, violet necktie, and blue jeans. His grandfather is shown to be a millionaire searching for the whereabouts of his grandson in Furfuri Nagar; he almost falls into the sly, pretentious and crafty John's trap, who pretends to be his scientist grandson. His design is a parallel version of Motu. Sometime he tests his gadgets on Motu and Patlu without telling them any information about it and they get into problems because of it. Later he creates an antidote and uses it to make them normal like before. He often gets beaten by Motu and Patlu because of it.

• Ghasitaram: Ghasitaram has 20 years of experience in every field but only very few of the experiences are useful to anyone. He hails from Ghatal located in West Midnapore in West Bengal. Almost like Dr. Jhatka, his so-called "experiences of 20 years" often land people, especially Motu and Patlu, in trouble. However, Motu and Patlu do call on him for help in certain episodes. Ghasitaram 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.

• Chingum: is a police inspector. He believes that no criminal can escape from his clutches. However, Chingum manages to catch criminals merely by luck 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 from him. When he fires his gun in the air after telling his dialogue, coconuts fall on his head and make him fall to the ground. He drives a green motor bike and sometimes also drives a police jeep. He is sometimes helped by two constables, Hera and Pheri. As of the movie "Motu Patlu: Double Trouble", he is married. Chingum wears a khaki uniform with metals and a nametag on it. He also wears sunglasses most of the time. He likes south Indian food such as Idli, Dosa, Sambhar and Coconut chutney.

  Other Main

• Chaiwala: A man who has a tea-shop near Motu's house. His real home is never revealed in the series. He makes Motu's favorite samosas and Patlu's favorite tea in the city. Motu steals the samosas from his shop and does not give the money to him. Motu gets a lot of power by eating samosas of Chaiwala. After eating samosas he shows aggression and can beat anyone, although the Chaiwala does not like his samosas to be eaten for free. He occasionally rewards Motu by exempting him from the money Motu owes him or even promising him free samosas when he saves him from other residents of Furfuri Nagar. Motu sometimes gets beaten for not giving money to Chaiwala.

• Boxer: Motu's neighbour/neighbor who wears red boxing gloves, a white tank top, and red pants with vertical yellow stripes. He is an aggressive man and a teacher in the school they used to attend. His coach is Mr. Thakur. He always wants to help his neighbors but he gets angry and beats them up. He also has an expensive car that gets destroyed by Motu. In "Boxer's Baby", it is also shown that he is not a good parent and could not get his son, Sunny, to sleep. Also, he is depicted having a cowardly brother in "Judwa Boxer" who becomes bold enough later to free him from Motu and Patlu's captivity. His name Boxer Raju as shown in episode Motu Patlu when he calls his mother in America.

  Antagonists

Main

• 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 writes 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 wears a blue dress shirt with dark blue flower prints, yellow undershirt, brown belt, dark periwinkle pants with blue cuffs, and brown shoes.
• Number 1: Number 1 is John's goon who serves as one of the supporting antagonists. He likes John's short poems and appreciate it but he is beaten up by jon 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.
• Number 2: Number 2 is John's goon who rarely speaks. He has a dark mark on his eye and a band-aid on his oversized nose. He has dark brown hair, wears a cyan striped shirt, aquamarine ascot, and brownish-orange pants.

  Other Antagonists

• Khopdi: He is a goon in season 4 who always tries to defeat Motu Patlu. He was first introduced in the movie "Motu Patlu Dino Invasion"
• Pappu-Haddi: They are two assistants of Khopdi.
• Skull: He is elder brother of Khopdi and made his first appearance in the movie "Motu Patlu Dino Invasion" as a famous hunter of Africa.

  Minor characters

• Bubblegum: He is the father of Chingum and the commissioner of police of the area comprising Furfuri Nagar and adjoining villages. He once got impressed with Motu and Patlu and even recruited them in the police as Havaldars, but when he came to know that they were not as capable as he had thought, he got annoyed with them and fired them from the police.
• Hera Singh: He is a Hawaldar of Inspector Chingum. He always tells Chingum, "Aap to top ho, hindustan ki hop ho", which means "You are India's greatest hope".
• Pheri Lal: He is a Hawaldar of Inspector Chingum. He always remarks, "You are very great sir, but born little late sir".
• Sabziwali: She sells best vegetables in the whole Furfuri Nagar. Motu can be troublesome to her too at times and also owes her some money. She has got a fiery temper and can also punish Chingum at times whenever his chases harm her vegetables in some or other way. She wears a green saree over a black blouse.
• Mayor Mr. Singh: He is the Mayor of Furfuri Nagar, He wears a coat and a white shirt with the coat coloured Pant. He sometimes has a Mayor named band on his coat.
• Munni: She is the sister of Motu.
• Chotu: He is the nephew of Motu, He wears a green T-shirt with a pink pant. Sometimes, he wears a brown shirt with yellow pants.
• Johnny: He is the big brother of John. In Motu Patlu Acchey Insaan, he is seen to be caught. In Episode John Ka Bhai Johnny, he is seen very rich.
• Virus: He is a scientist, He always invents something for John. In return, he asks John for money but John somehow fools him and makes his run away. John uses his gadgets as a trial on him and puts Virus in trouble.
• Mosi: She is the aunt of John.
• Additional characters include Chingum's mother, Amma, Chingum's wife, Dharti, and Chingum's uncle, Troublegum.

  Voice artists

• Saurav Chakraborty – Motu, Patlu, Ghasita Ram, Chingum, John, Boxer
• Omi Sharma – Dr. Jhatka
• Aanchal Trivedi – Hera, Pheri
• Sankalp Rastogi – Chaiwala, Number 1
• Renu Sharda – Sabziwali
• Brian D. Costa – Number 2
• Rajah – Number 2
• Deepak Kumar – Additional voice

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Production

Music

Episodes

Merchandising and promotion

Movies

Broadcast history

Other media

Made-for-television films

• Motu Patlu in Wonderland! - When Dr. Jhatka's experimental aircraft fails and crash-lands on an unknown island, they are expecting action and danger.
• Motu Patlu: Mission Moon - Motu Patlu struggle to stop a malevolent entity who has been converting the soil of the Moon to gold to incur profits.
• Motu Patlu: Deep Sea Adventure - Motu Patlu are on a ship voyage, but after the sinking of their ship, they experience a marine journey, the adventure of a lifetime.
• Motu Patlu: Kung-Fu Kings - An evil Martial Arts fighter named Tiger Chang comes to Furfuri Nagar and insults them. Motu seeks to train from Him Naresh to teach Tiger a lesson.
• Motu Patlu: Khazaane Ki Race - Motu Patlu clash against John and Chamku Don to uncover a treasure hidden on Christmas Mountain.
• Motu Patlu: Kung Fu Kings Returns- When Tim Tim, Him Naresh's grandson gets kidnapped by a mysterious monster, Motu Patlu form an unlikely alliance with Tiger Chang to find him. They find out about a competition invites strange monsters held by Dr. Snake who is also the father of Tim Tim who turned into a snake due to his inventions and has kidnapped Tim Tim.
• Motu Patlu: Carnival Island! - Motu Patlu have to solve the mystery of the archenemy of Grandpa of Carnival Island, who is bent on destroying all of his creation.
• Motu Patlu: 36 Ghante Race - Motu Patlu race against time for thirty six hours to solve the case of the theft of the Golden Car award.
• Motu Patlu Alien World! - Motu Patlu travel to an extraterrestrial world to rescue Motu's father.
• Motu Patlu in Double Trouble - After Chingum's wedding, Motu Patlu and friends find themselves mixed up with two scientists who look like themselves and two villains struggling for goals of each other.
• Motu Patlu: The Invisible Plane - When there is a plane competition going on at Furfuri Nagar Airport, Angara and his men steal the Invisible Plane, the country's dream. Motu, Patlu, Dr.Jhatka, Chingum and Ghasitaram get a journey to a secret aircraft facility in the Arctic to find it. They also help the Yetis to save them from evil Angara.
• Motu Patlu: in Dragon World - Motu Patlu and friends set out on a exciting mission to save green dragons from black ones in their mystical land.
• Motu Patlu: in Hong Kong Kung Fu Kings 3 - Motu trains with Boneless Master in Hong Kong to defeat the most menacing villain of Hong Kong, Devil Don.
• Motu Patlu: in Octopus World - Motu Patlu become friends with a goldfish and a baby octopus while working in a aquarium at Furfuri Nagar. They promised to help them go back to the sea safely and free the goldfish's family from a evil octopus queen.
• Motu Patlu: - in The City Of Gold - Motu and Patlu are introduced to Dilawar Khan,one of the world's greatest horse-back riders. After Motu defeats him in a horse-back riding competition in Furfuri Nagar, Dilawar Khan and his wife Gul Bakawail uses his naivety and innocence against him by tricking him into finding the lost city of Gold for their own selfish gains. Dr.Jhatka, Ghasitaram and Inspector Chingam joins the duo to find the city.
• Motu Patlu: - Dino Invasion - Motu Patlu have to save Modern City from prehistoric dinosaurs who invade their world through a time portal and send them back to their respective land protecting from Skull, an evil hunter from Africa.
• Motu Patlu: - The challenge of Kung Fu Brothers Motu Patlu embark on a journey to the outskirts of Tokyo city where they meet an evil Kung Fu brothers duo. The brothers want to rule the entire world with their diabolic form of marital arts. Thus, challenging Motu Patlu to an ultimate Kung Fu battle. They have one month to train advanced Kung Fu technique with Crying Master.

  Theatrical film

• Inspector Chingum

Guddu the Great

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