Updated On: 13 July, 2022 05:29 PM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
What if a fictional character literally develops a life of his own? Would you hang with ’50s onscreen KN Singh!

A still from the movie RK/RKay
Think the most absurd question the cartoonist Pran (1938-2014) was ever asked was by me. When I was little, I went up to the creator of Chacha Chaudhary, wondering why, over all the years, Chacha had remained the same age. Didn’t occur to me instead to check how Sabu came from Jupiter!
Quite amused, seeing me off at the door, Pran recalled the question to his wife who, from what I remember, looked a lot like Chacha Chaudhary’s own wife in Pran’s comic strip.