Shikari Shambu

Shikari Shambu is an Indian comic character created by Vasant Halbe and Luis Fernandes for the Tinkle magazine in 1983. Shikari Shambu, with his trademark hunter's hat pulled down over his eyes, is one of the flagship characters of Tinkle.

Shambu is a cowardly and lazy shikari (hunter) whom the rest of the world perceives as courageous. He always tries to run away from dangerous animals, but due to some stroke of luck always ends up as a hero. He lives with his wife Shanti. In The Legend of Shikari Shambu (Tinkle Magazine No.573), it was revealed that Shambu, before being called "Shikari" Shambu, fell on a tiger and knocked him out. It was after this incident that he got the name "Shikari" Shambu.

Origins

By 1988, Tinkle was already on its way becoming the most popular children’s magazine in India. Their biggest rival that time was another children magazine named Target, run by Living Media. Unlike Tinkle, Target was more of a narrative magazine, with a few pages of comics. Their flagship character that time was Detective Moochhwala (Hindi for "the man with a mustache") by Ajit Ninan. Moochhwala who was a detective with penetrating eyes and a huge mustache. Tinkle decided to create a competing character. Subba Rao and Dhruva, two of the creators at Tinkle, came up with the proposal for such a character. They decided to base this new character on a boastful but cowardly big game hunter in the then famous television drama, I Love Lucy.

Shikari

A shikari (Urdu: شکاری‎) is a big game hunter or hunting guide in India.

Shikari may also refer to:

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Shikari (comics)

Shikari is a fictional character, a superheroine in the future of the DC Comics universe and a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. She was created by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning and Olivier Coipel and first appeared in Legion Lost #1.

Some fans have maintained that her pathfinding powers are similar to, or a return of, the tracking powers of Dawnstar, a member of a previous incarnation of the Legion team. Abnett and Lanning have frequently denied that she is a new version of the earlier character.

Her name is a Hindi word for hunter, derived from shikar, "hunt."

Fictional character biography

Shikari is a member of the Kwai, a nomadic race of humanoid insects who live in the "Second Galaxy," and who were chased and oppressed by the xenophobic Progeny, another insectoid race they had first encountered when following the appearance of an apparent new, "feral star," which the Kwai considered good luck. Unlike her fellow Kwai, however, Shikari was a rebel, displaying throwback, aggressive "lonestar" tendencies, including using her retractable exoskeleton for fighting rather than simple protection from the vacuum of space.

Shikari (2000 film)

Shikari (English: The Hunter) is 2000 Bollywood thriller film directed by N. Chandra and starring Govinda, Karisma Kapoor, Tabu, Kiran Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Gulshan Grover, Johnny Lever, Sushma Seth, Shweta Menon, Nirmal Pandey, and Raja Jung Bahadur.

Plot

Virendra (Nirmal Pandey) is a business tycoon in Cape Town, South Africa. His sister Rajeshwari (Karishma Kapoor), wife Suman (Tabu) and his mother are his only relatives. Virendra's marital life is in apparent discord, since he has never had any relations with Suman. One day, Virendra gets a rival in business world in form of Mahendra Pratap Singh (Govinda). Mahendra is an Indian spice tycoon wanting to expand his business in South Africa.

Virendra is initially wary of Mahendra's expansion plans, but sees the latter's entry as a tool to expand his own business. Unknown to Virendra, Mahendra is actually a well disguised man named Om Srivastav. Om has a bigger agenda than becoming a tycoon. Mahendra & Virendra strike a deal, upon which Virendra is invited to a house in forest for celebration. Once there, Mahendra reveals his true face to Virendra, who is revealed to know Om.