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Random Magazine is a humor magazine founded in June 2008. It is India's only humor magazine with a circulation of 50,000 copies throughout the country. Founder Jatin Varma serves as the magazine's editor.
The magazine targets men, women and children between the ages of 18 and 36 years in India's urban centers. Random expanded to local language editions in 2009.
, Arundhati Roy
or Anurag Kashyap
or current affairs and TV shows like terrorism, recession and reality shows.
Uud Bilaw Manus, or UBiMa, is a comic-book superhero, from Random Magazine' s Badly Drawn Comic. UBiMa is supposedly a 'bhojpuri' superhero, though all characters in the script speak only a rough approximation of the language. UBiMa protects the nation/city/region of 'Beehar' from various villains such as Kung-Fu Girgit Gang, Kiraaye ke Tattu, Jheenga Jha and his arch-nemesis, Kan Khajura.
Col Chikara is another character from the pages of Random. Col Chikara is a self-styled dictator, who is hell bent on taking over the world, or at least the country.
Col Chikara is loosely based on the character by the same name from the film Waqt Hamara Hai
, starring Akshay Kumar
and Sunil Shetty.
Other casts include Dr. Kaalia, Slutty Savitri, The Chickens, Miller ke Chacha and others have been a part of the Random family since the magazine’s conceptional stage.
, Indian Ocean
, Rabbi Shergill
, Gulshan Grover
, and Rohit Bal have all been featured in the magazine.
is a satirical take on Bollywood
, where awards are given for the worst performances. The Golden Kela Awards was created by Random Magazine and the Sundaas Film Institute in the year 2009. The first annual Golden Kela award ceremony took place on 7 March 2009 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
. Jaspal Bhatti
made a special appearance at the event, dishonoring the Indian film talent of the year 2008. The intention behind the Golden Kela is to ridicule the Hindi film stars and acknowledge the worst of Indian Cinema. Since, several award ceremonies each year celebrate the best of Hindi Cinema, Random Magazine and the Sundaas Film Institute chose to be different by giving away the Best of the Worst of Indian Cinema.
http://www.indiantelevision.com/mam/headlines/y2k9/jan/janmam35.php
Channel [V] licenses Simpoo and Lola Kutty to magazine
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The magazine targets men, women and children between the ages of 18 and 36 years in India's urban centers. Random expanded to local language editions in 2009.
Influences
Random Magazine has been highly influenced by India and their take on it. From Random Classifieds to the Badly Drawn Comic, from Horrorscope to Col. Chikara’s Believe It or Else, the magazine offers satire and spoof on all aspects of Indian life be it personalities like Shahrukh KhanShahrukh Khan
Shahrukh Khan , often credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian film actor, as well as a film producer and television host. Often referred to as "the King of Bollywood", Khan has acted in over 70 Hindi films....
, Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays...
or Anurag Kashyap
Anurag Kashyap (director)
Anurag Singh Kashyap is an Indian film director and screenwriter. As a director, he is known for Black Friday , a controversial and award-winning Hindi film about the 1993 Bombay bombings, followed by No Smoking , Dev D and Gulaal...
or current affairs and TV shows like terrorism, recession and reality shows.
Characters in Random
- U Bi Maa
Uud Bilaw Manus, or UBiMa, is a comic-book superhero, from Random Magazine
- Col. Chikara
Col Chikara is another character from the pages of Random. Col Chikara is a self-styled dictator, who is hell bent on taking over the world, or at least the country.
Col Chikara is loosely based on the character by the same name from the film Waqt Hamara Hai
Waqt Hamara Hai
Waqt Hamara Hai is a 1993 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by Bharat Rangachary, starring Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Ayesha Jhulka, Mamta Kulkarni, Anupam Kher, Viju Khote,Aruna Irani, Gavin Packard and Rami Reddy. The movie was produced by Sajid Nadiadwala.-Plot:Waqt Hamara Hai is a...
, starring Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar is an Indian film actor, producer and martial artist who has appeared in over a hundred Hindi films. When he began his acting career in the 1990s, he primarily starred in action films and was particularly known for his appearances in feature films commonly called the "Khiladi series",...
and Sunil Shetty.
Other casts include Dr. Kaalia, Slutty Savitri, The Chickens, Miller ke Chacha and others have been a part of the Random family since the magazine’s conceptional stage.
Random and celebrities
Celebrities have even contributed their presence to Random Magazine. They have not only given their interviews, but also posed for the Celebrity Reading Random section. Personalities such as Nandita DasNandita Das
Nandita Das is an award-winning Indian film actress and director. As an actress, she is known for her performances in Fire , Earth , Bawandar , Kannathil Muthamittal and Aamaar Bhuvan . As a director, she is known for her directorial debut Firaaq , which has won a number of national and...
, Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...
, Rabbi Shergill
Rabbi Shergill
Rabbi Shergill in Jatt Sikh family is an Indian musician well known for his debut album Rabbi and the chart-topper song of 2005, "Bulla Ki Jaana"...
, Gulshan Grover
Gulshan Grover
Gulshan Grover is an Indian actor, who has acted in over 400 films through a career spanning over 30 years.Gulshan Grover is one of the first Indian actors to have made a successful transition from Bollywood into Hollywood and international Cinema....
, and Rohit Bal have all been featured in the magazine.
Random and Channel V
Channel [V] has licensed the characters Simpoo Singh and Lola Kutty to Random Magazine for publication every month. SS Sodhi (aka Simpoo Singh) and Lola Kutty were featured in print for the first time in Random Magazine. They have been a part of Random issues since January 2009.Random and the Golden Kela Awards
The Golden Kela AwardsGolden Kela Awards
The Golden Kela Awards are a satirical take on Bollywood that award the worst performances in Hindi cinema each year.-The Awards:...
is a satirical take on Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
, where awards are given for the worst performances. The Golden Kela Awards was created by Random Magazine and the Sundaas Film Institute in the year 2009. The first annual Golden Kela award ceremony took place on 7 March 2009 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
. Jaspal Bhatti
Jaspal Bhatti
Jaspal Singh Bhatti is an Indian television personality famous for his satirical take on the problems of the common man...
made a special appearance at the event, dishonoring the Indian film talent of the year 2008. The intention behind the Golden Kela is to ridicule the Hindi film stars and acknowledge the worst of Indian Cinema. Since, several award ceremonies each year celebrate the best of Hindi Cinema, Random Magazine and the Sundaas Film Institute chose to be different by giving away the Best of the Worst of Indian Cinema.
See also
- Mad (magazine)Mad (magazine)Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. Launched as a comic book before it became a magazine, it was widely imitated and influential, impacting not only satirical media but the entire cultural landscape of the 20th century.The last...
- Channel V India
- Golden Raspberry Award
- Pigasus AwardPigasus AwardThe Pigasus Award is the name of an annual tongue-in-cheek honor recognized by noted skeptic James Randi. The awards seek to expose parapsychological, paranormal or psychic frauds that Randi has noted over the previous year...
- Darwin Award
Random Media Links
Channel [V]'s humour icons Simpoo Singh & Lola Kutty to have print presence.http://www.indiantelevision.com/mam/headlines/y2k9/jan/janmam35.php
Channel [V] licenses Simpoo and Lola Kutty to magazine
http://www.televisionpoint.com/news2009/print.php?id=1232022035