''Yom'' (short for Yogendra Omprakash Mathur) is an Indian animated television series produced by Graphiti Multimedia and created by Munjal Shroff. It premiered on 1 May 2017 on

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in India. Originally set to air in 2016, but Disney delayed it to May 2017. The story is about Yogendra Mathur, often shortened to Yom, an 11-year-old school boy who lives in Chotasheher and can transform to different animals by performing

yoga Yoga (; sa, योग, lit=yoke' or 'union ) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciou ...

asanas An asana is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose,Verse 46, chapter II, "Patanjali Yoga sutras" by Swami Prabhavananda, published by the Sri Ramakrishna Math p. 111 and later extended in hatha yoga ...

. The show was added to

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on 7 June 2018.

Premise

Yogendra Mathur (Yom) is an 11-year-old schoolboy who has the power to transform into different animals such as an eagle, cat or dog; among others via Yoga Asanas. despite this he can only stay in animal form for 11 minutes at a time. He lives in the fictional city of Chotasheher and the show revolves around him saving it from various evil threats. another character is his friend Riya whose job it is to tell Yom how much time he has left in animal form

References

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