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Shaktimaan is an Indian superhero from the television series of the same name produced by Mukesh Khanna and directed by Dinkar Jani. Around 400 episodes of Shaktimaan TV Serial originally aired on Doordarshan DD National, India's national television network, from 27 September 1997 (barring the introductory episode on 15 September 1997) to 27 March 2005, on Sundays at 12 noon IST. The telecast slot, however was shifted to 9:30 a.m. for the latter episodes. 

Later Mukhesh Khanna also came with another superhero series named as Aryaman TV Serial. Mukesh Khanna plays the roles of Shaktimaan, the main protagonist and his alter ego Pandit Gangadhar Vidyadhar Mayadhar Omkarnath Shastri , a photographer for the newspaper Aaj Ki Aawaz. Shaktimaan is depicted as a human who has attained superhuman strength and power through deep meditation and attaining control over five elements of life. Kitu Gidwani, and later Vaishnavi Mahant, and later Shruti Shetty plays the role of Geeta Vishwas, a reporter in the series who loves Shaktimaan. Surendra Pal plays the role of Tamraj Kilvish, the main antagonist in the series. Shaktimaan TV Serial started a franchise on the character.

Since the dawn of mankind, humanity was at peace until the arrival of KalYuga. Since then, greed and hatred has taken over humanity and has been deteriorating it for past 6000 years. To end this, a mystical sect of saints known as "Suryanshis" chose a man to rise up against all odds and defeat the evil prevailing within society. He was taught the way to energize the 7 chakras of body through Kundalini Yoga that helped him get mystical and supernatural powers. During his training, he also conducted the ritual of death in order to get total control over his powers by entering the holy fire and immersing his physical body in it. When the five natural elements of life, fire, earth, water, wind and sky invigorated his body, he gains superpowers and becomes a Superhuman. At last, he takes a pledge to finish corruption and injustice in society and fight the evil prevailing in the world. Due to his heroic initial works, he is named Shaktimaan by a reporter, Geeta Vishwas. Later, it is revealed that Shaktimaan was the rebirth of Shri Satya who had formed the Suryanshi Sect after the war of the Mahabharat 5,000 years ago. His alter-ego is a funny geek named Pandit Gangadhar Vidyadhar Mayadhar Omkarnath Shastri, who works as a photographer in a daily newspaper office to maintain his secret identity as Shaktimaan. Shaktimaan's nemesis is Tamraj Kilvish, who is the living embodiment of the evil and dark forces of the world. Shaktimaan is another common human being, but reincarnation of Shri Satya, but has got his internal spiritual powers ignited with the continuous and typical practice of Hindu philosophical and cultural values system and activities like Yog Sadhna and Meditation. Also, he follows the morals and ethical values of truth, non-violence, and values stated in books like the Bhagavad Gita. Shaktimaan is rebirth of Shri Satya, first guru of Suryanshis after the death of Guru Sarvagya and division of Shaktipunja into two pieces namely Shakti Punja (remained with Truth/Light) and Pap Punja (taken away by Andhera/Darkness).

Shaktimaan is an Indian superhero from the television series of the same name produced by Mukesh Khanna and directed by Dinkar Jani. Around 400 episodes of Shaktimaan TV Serial originally aired on Doordarshan DD National, India's national television network, from 27 September 1997 (barring the introductory episode on 15 September 1997) to 27 March 2005, on Sundays at 12 noon IST. The telecast slot, however, was shifted to 9:30 a.m. for the latter episodes. Later Mukhesh Khanna also came with another superhero series named Aryaman.

Mukesh Khanna plays the roles of Shaktimaan, the main protagonist and his alter ego Pandit Gangadhar Vidyadhar Mayadhar Omkarnath Shastri, a photographer for the newspaper Aaj Ki Aawaz. Shaktimaan is depicted as a human who has attained superhuman strength and power through deep meditation and attaining control over five elements of life. Kitu Gidwani, and later Vaishnavi Mahant, and later Shruti Shetty plays the role of Geeta Vishwas, a reporter in the series who loves Shaktimaan. Surendra Pal plays the role of Tamraj Kilvish, the main antagonist in the series. Shaktimaan TV Serial started a franchise on the character.

Since the dawn of mankind, humanity was at peace until the arrival of KalYuga. Since then, greed and hatred has taken over humanity and has been deteriorating it for past 6000 years. To end this, a mystical sect of saints known as "Suryanshis"; chose a man to rise up against all odds and defeat the evil prevailing within society. He was taught the way to energize the 7 chakras of body through Kundalini Yoga that helped him get mystical and supernatural powers. During his training, he also conducted the ritual of death in order to get total control over his powers by entering the holy fire and immersing his physical body in it. When the five natural elements of life, fire, earth, water, wind and sky invigorated his body, he gains superpowers and becomes a Superhuman. At last, he takes a pledge to finish corruption and injustice in society and fight the evil prevailing in the world. Due to his heroic initial works, he is named Shaktimaan by a reporter, Geeta Vishwas. Later, it is revealed that Shaktimaan was the rebirth of Shri Satya who had formed the Suryanshi Sect after the war of the Mahabharat 5,000 years ago. His alter-ego is a funny geek named Pandit Gangadhar Vidyadhar Mayadhar Omkarnath Shastri, who works as a photographer in a daily newspaper office to maintain his secret identity as Shaktimaan.

Shaktimaan's nemesis is Tamraj Kilvish, who is the living embodiment of the evil and dark forces of the world. Shaktimaan is another common human being, but reincarnation of Shri Satya, but has got his internal spiritual powers ignited with the continuous and typical practice of Hindu philosophical and cultural values system and activities like Yog Sadhna and Meditation. Also, he follows the morals and ethical values of truth, non-violence, and values stated in books like the Bhagavad Gita. Shaktimaan is rebirth of Shri Satya, first guru of Suryanshis after the death of Guru Sarvagya and division of Shaktipunja into two pieces namely Shakti Punja (remained with Truth/Light) and Pap Punja (taken away by Andhera/Darkness).

Shaktiman is a famous Indian Fictional show with a Superhero concept directed by Dinker Jani and created and produced by Mukesh Khanna. It was aired on India’s national television network-Doordarshan. It aimed to bring to the Indian audiences the fictional characters of Superheros, giving it a very Indian feel and storyline. The show was so famous, especially amongst the children that it was later dubbed and aired on Pogo in English, Tarang in Oriya and Chutti Tv in Tamil. It was also re-telecasted on Star Utsav.

Like in every Superhero show, this story also has a shy and timid guy who has an elter-ego of a Superhero. Mukesh Khanna essays the tutular character of Shaktiman who to the eyes of the world is a timid comman man, a reporter named Pandit Gangadhar Vidyadhar Mayadhar Omkarnath Shastri who works with a newspaper called Aaj ki Awaz. At the call of help, he turns into this beefed up macho-man character of the Superhero Shaktiman, who has supreme strength and is oblivious to any pain or injuries that can come in his path of saving the mankind. At a time when eveil was rising in the world the Suryvanshis, chose a man of truth and honesty, assumed to be a rebirth of their leader Shri Satya and blessed him with the powers of the five elements of Life- Fire, Earth, Water, Wind and Sky. He is also trained by the Gurus in using his powers.. To avoid falling prey to his enemies he pledges to keep his true identity hidden and not letting anyone know who Shaktiman is, or where he lives. Thus, the powerful Shaktiman turns to the simpleton Gangadhar Shastri.

Some of the other important characters are Geeta Vishwas played by Vaishnavi Mahant, who falls in love with Shaktiman while hating Gangadhar Shastri, as he is a loser. She slowly gets to knows the secret behind Shaktiman, but promises to not let the world know. This character was initially rumored to be played by Kitu Gidwani but was replaced for unknown reasons. Tom Alter essays the Character of Shaktiman’s mahaguru. Surendra Pal plays the evil Tamraj Kilvish, Shaktiman’s biggest enemy. Lalit Parimoo plays Dr. Jaikal, the evil scientist who works for Tamraj. Nawab Shah plays the mayor of the city- Jaikumar Janardhan Kakodkar.

Shaktiman was like a combination of all the superhero’s like Captain Planet, Superman, Spiderman, etc. put together in an Indian Avatar. He is the defender of truth and remover of all evil. It was the most popular and longest running show for children on DD Network. The show was introduced to the viewers with an introductary episode on 20th September, 1997. The normal series started from 27th September 1997, with last episode telecasted on 27th March, 2005. The show came on the DD network every Sunday, 12 noon. The last few episodes of the show were telecasted with a changed timing of 9.30 am.

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