Chacha Chaudhury’s creator Pran dies
7 Aug 2014 5:43 AM IST
‘Pran succumbed to cancer early this morning at a hospital in Gurgaon,’ his publisher Diamond Comics said in a release on Wednesday. He gave the famous punchline, ‘Chacha Chaudhury ka deemag computer se tej chalta hain (Chacha Chaudhury’s brain works faster than computer).’
‘Pran passed away at 9 am at the Medanta hospital. He had been suffering from cancer of the intestine for the past eight months. He is survived by a son and a daughter,’ Gulshan Rai, Publisher, Diamond Comics said. Prime minister Narendra Modi took to twitter to express his grief over the passing away of the cartoonist.
Modi described Pran ‘as a versatile cartoonist who brought smiles on the faces of people through his rich work.’ Pran began his career in 1960 as a cartoonist for the Delhi-based newspaper ‘Milap’ with comic strip ‘Daabu’. In 1969, Pran sketched Chacha Chaudhary for the Hindi magazine ‘Lotpot’, which made him famous.
‘Pran was making small cartoons for newspapers when I first contacted him in 1981. At that time there were no Indian comics, it was all reproductions of foreign titles. For the last 35 years we have been the sole publisher of his cartoons,’ said Rai. With a career spanning over five decades, Pran employed a simple style of art and sense of humour to create a family of characters like Shrimatiji, Pinki, Billoo, Raman and Channi Chachi, which are regularly published in Indian magazines.
‘Pran passed away at 9 am at the Medanta hospital. He had been suffering from cancer of the intestine for the past eight months. He is survived by a son and a daughter,’ Gulshan Rai, Publisher, Diamond Comics said. Prime minister Narendra Modi took to twitter to express his grief over the passing away of the cartoonist.
Modi described Pran ‘as a versatile cartoonist who brought smiles on the faces of people through his rich work.’ Pran began his career in 1960 as a cartoonist for the Delhi-based newspaper ‘Milap’ with comic strip ‘Daabu’. In 1969, Pran sketched Chacha Chaudhary for the Hindi magazine ‘Lotpot’, which made him famous.
‘Pran was making small cartoons for newspapers when I first contacted him in 1981. At that time there were no Indian comics, it was all reproductions of foreign titles. For the last 35 years we have been the sole publisher of his cartoons,’ said Rai. With a career spanning over five decades, Pran employed a simple style of art and sense of humour to create a family of characters like Shrimatiji, Pinki, Billoo, Raman and Channi Chachi, which are regularly published in Indian magazines.
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