Gardhab Das created by cartoonist brothers
Neelabh Banerjee and
Jayanto Banerjee Jayanto Banerjee (born 1958), who signs his work Jayanto, is an Indian cartoonist and illustrator. He created the character of the singing donkey Gardhab Das with his cartoonist brother Neelabh Banerjee for the Indian children's magazine ''Target'' ...
was a comic section run in the Indian youth magazine
Target
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. The main character Gardhab Das had a donkey face and was always depicted wearing a
kurta and
pajamas. His main trait was his singing or lack of it. He was a perpetually unemployed music teacher. Famously known for disturbing the peace with his vocals and his
harmonium, he was always at loggerheads with his landlord, being a penniless 'singer'. In various strips, he gets jobs as a siren for the fire department, as a weapon during a war, and he also manages to fight and get the better of people like Tike Myson, a play on Mike Tyson and Bruce Lee. He also trains the double of Mykill Packson (Michael Jackson) on his tour to India. His only weapon: his vocals and his harmonium. The name Gardhab itself means "donkey" in Sanskrit and Das is a common Indian
surname
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The strips were simplistic, and their appeal lay in the funky illustrations. This along with
Detective Moochhwala made Target a highly anticipated magazine for children all over India during the mid 1980s through till the early 1990s.
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