Adapting the blockbuster franchise 'Dabangg' into an Animated Series

Cosmos-Maya and Arbaaz Khan Productions have collaborated to adapt the blockbuster franchise Dabangg into an animated series.

Disney+Hotstar VIP, a frequent collaborator with Cosmos-Maya, will be streaming 104 episodes of the show on the platform. Season 1 of the animated series will be unveiled in summer 2021, targeted at family audiences and kids. It will be featuring animated avatars of all of the franchise’s characters.

With Dabangg, CM aims to bring in progressive disruption in the animation business. This collaboration permits Cosmos Maya tremendous scalability potential within the industry with multiple similar future projects that translate into much higher revenue potential. 

Anish Mehta, CEO of Cosmos-Maya, said, “With Dabangg, we are venturing into untapped space in the Indian animation market in a narrative format that provides audiences with familiarity and novelty. With this project, Cosmos-Maya will enter a new market space where we get to give our spin to brand extensions of well-loved mainstream film franchises and characters, and will surely pave the way for a lot more prospects of a similar nature in the future, a plan which is already in motion with projects in partnership with 3major Bollywood franchises planned for 2021.”

“We are glad to have found a long-term business partner Disney+Hotstar who started our relationship by onboarding 234 half-hour episodes of our immensely popular title Selfie With Bajrangi,” he added.

Arbaaz Khan, Producer and Owner of the Dabangg Franchise, stated, “It is great to have Cosmos-Maya on-board for bringing Chulbul into a fresh format. They understand the universe of Dabangg and we’re confident in the way they’ll get our characters to translate into a colourful format. It is a really exciting time for us and we can’t wait to see kids give the same ‘swaagat’ to Chulbul and his posse as audiences have done over the past decade.”