Shaktimaan is an Indian Hindi-language superhero television show that aired on DD National from 13 September 1997 to 27 March 2005.
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Shaktimaan is an Indian Hindi-language superhero television show that aired on DD National from 13 September 1997 to 27 March 2005.
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Later, it is revealed thatShaktimaan was the rebirth of Shri Satya who was part of the Suryanshi Sect during the Mahabharata era 5,000 years ago.
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Shaktimaan's enemy is Tamraj Kilvish, who is the living embodiment of the evil and dark forces of the world.
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Shaktimaan was conceptualised by Khanna in 1981 when he was working on a film with Rajshri Productions.
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That's why I decided to create an Indian superhero, Shaktimaan, who is born out of a yagna, and a result of all the creative energies of the universe.
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Shaktimaan performed Yajna in which he entered the fire himself and dissolved his body in the fire.
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Shaktimaan's mission is to destroy the sin within people, not the sinned people.
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Shaktimaan's adventures show him pursuing justice and saving his friends while Kilvish and his minions plot to defeat him.
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Shaktimaan has superhuman powers that lie inside his body in his seven chakras of Kundalini attained through meditation.
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Shaktimaan is an expert, skilled and intelligent fighter and has fought with super-skilled enemies.
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Shaktimaan possesses physical powers like unlimited speed, strength, durability as well as psychic powers like telepathy, teleportation, telekinesis, etc.
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Shaktimaan can be killed if the crystal is placed in front of him and he is treated violently to the verge of death.
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Shaktimaan gets brief premonitions about the incidents that are going to happen to him in the future.
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Shaktimaan got a job as a photographer for the newspaper Aaj Ki Awaaz after being interviewed by Geeta Vishwas.
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Shaktimaan is trained by a mystical sect of saints to fight against all odds and defeat the evil prevailing within the society.
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Shaktimaan's alter ego is Gangadhar, who is a funny geek.
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Gita came to know about this after Shaktimaan regained power with the vow that he will never repeat the same mistake again.
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Shaktimaan is a scientist who was Gita's father and Ranjit Singh's friend.
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Shaktimaan encountered Ranjit Singh while on an expedition to perform research at a mysterious valley, where he and his team were attacked by invisible figures that shot fires at them and was rescued by Ranjit Singh.
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Many years later, Shaktimaan wanted to know more about Ranjit Singh from Gyanesh, as he didn't know Ranjit Singh was actually Shaktimaan's father and he was only raised by Pandit Vidyadhar Shastri.
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Shaktimaan has lived 6000 years and is the source of evil in the world.
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Shaktimaan intends to rule the world by spreading darkness, hatred, sin, and evil.
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Shaktimaan murdered Shaktimaan's parents and his adoptive father, Pandit Vidyadhar Shastri.
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Shaktimaan's minions include Electric-man, Stone-man, Plastica, Dr Jackal, and others.
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Shaktimaan invented a height control solution and fictional EC- rays.
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Shaktimaan was the primary supervillain in the first part of the series as he uses JJ's wealth and power to hatch plots to kill Shaktimaan but always failed.
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Shaktimaan even tries to approach Tarendra, an all-knowing sentient being of light, to know the truth about Shaktimaan.
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Shaktimaan is cunning enough to be able to use mental manipulation to trick Shaktimaan on occasion.
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Shaktimaan uses hypnosis to drive her mad so that the public will ignore her statements.
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Shaktimaan has a potent and fatal poison inside him that he can spit out of his mouth which affects everyone except Shaktimaan.
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Shaktimaan's powers were greatly diminished due to Shaktimaan defeating Kakodar.
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Shaktimaan initially served JJ as his personal assistant before he was possessed, but was secretly preparing the stage for Kakodar's entry under Tamraj's directions.
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Shaktimaan has the ability to change his appearance at will, but not shapeshift to assume someone else's body.
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Shaktimaan's powers include shooting electricity from eyes and electrocution on contact.
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Shaktimaan has many other magical devices and servants under his control.
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Shaktimaan has an odd sense of humour as he makes jokes while fighting Shaktimaan.
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Shaktimaan eventually turns him into stone and shatters him at one instance.
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Shaktimaan is a clone created by Dr Jackal by fusing cells of crab and a kidnapped Suryanshi.
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Shaktimaan left an illusion of him behind and narrowly escaped.
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Shaktimaan has the power to eat any form of matter and grow larger in size.
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Shaktimaan is however captured in a flying prison in the process.
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Shaktimaan then captures the clone and sends him into deep space.
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Shaktimaan was a devil creature who works for Kilvish, she hitches somebody on-road and kills him brutally by taking his spirit.
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Shaktimaan wants to become powerful, so she goes in front of Kilvish for her request.
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Shaktimaan's look was mostly similar to Teemiraa, she wears a red dress and the background score of Teemiraa was played on her.
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Shaktimaan is mentally a psycho lover who kills his love interest Shailaa after she lodged a complaint against him to the police.
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Shaktimaan is a devil woman, running her black world as an agent of Tamraj Kilvish.
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Shaktimaan is so cruel that she kills her own servants who can't do her given work.
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Shaktimaan made the jungle of Karadunga, her penthouse, a mysterious place so that no one can come there.
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Shaktimaan's role was played by actress Sunila Karambekar as a villain.
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Shaktimaan thought of the Shaktimaan as Satya, the Mahaguru, who was once a king but later became a priest as he loves the environment of the forest.
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Shaktimaan's fighting skills make maharani fell in love with him and she proposes to Satya, but he rejects her.
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Shaktimaan has many magical powers that nobody can destroy her.
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Later after telling the story to Shaktimaan, she told him that she is immortal and nobody can kill her.
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Shaktimaan wants the time machine remote from Maharaniji which she stole from him while kidnapping Geeta and Dwijj to an unknown place.
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Shaktimaan was able to reveal her real appearance to everyone later.
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Shaktimaan's neighbours want to kill her as they think that she is a witch.
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Shaktimaan was saved by Suryanshi samuday, who want to help her.
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Shaktimaan offers her to make more powerful than Shaktimaan to revenge society.
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Shaktimaan again brings kitanuman back to life, but later Shaktimaan freezes Dr Jackal, Nadia, Kitanuman, along with 3 dangerous criminals of space and sentences them in the Inter-Galactic Prison.
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Shaktimaan was made by combining the genetic material of a human, a snake, and a wolf.
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Shaktimaan's MO is to attract a person towards her and then kill them instantly by touch, and subsequently drink their blood.
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Later, Shaktimaan is successful in collecting 8 chakras of life from different time zones and saves the world, and Pretolla is sent out of the earth and the protective coating is again made.
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Shaktimaan is completely made from fire and Tamraj Kilvish awoke him from thousands of years of his sleeping to kill Shaktimaan.
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Shaktimaan first spread destruction in the city by showing himself as Ranjeet Singh, Shaktimaan's father, but dies due to the attack of nitrogen gas which him, but he again re-emerges.
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Shaktimaan was created by Dr Jackal when he was rescued from jail by Sahab, one of the main enemies of Shaktimaan.
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Later Shaktimaan took all light from Lightman and took it inside his body which made him extremely weak but he managed to fly to the sun and transferred the light in the sun.
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Shaktimaan is a half-human half frog, he is really powerful and has a really long and sticky tongue which is really dangerous.
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Shaktimaan's tongue is his main power source which he uses to catch its prey.
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Shaktimaan spread a lot of destruction in the city but was defeated by Shaktiman and three other powerful Suryanshis.
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Shaktimaan was created by Kapala, a servant of Tamraj Kilvish using his magic skull.
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Shaktimaan's glance follows the rules of electromagnetic radiation and can be reflected.
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Shaktimaan uses a metal tray to turn his glance back to him, petrifying the Stone-man.
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Kapala is hurt badly and Shaktimaan uses this opportunity to destroy the magic skull of Kapala.
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Shaktimaan is really powerful in hand-to-hand combat and is an expert in martial arts.
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Shaktimaan spread a lot of destruction in the city but was defeated by Shaktiman and three other powerful Suryanshis.
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Shaktimaan is half-snake half-human and releases extremely dangerous poison from his mouth.
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Shaktimaan spread a lot of destruction in the city but was defeated by Shaktiman and three other powerful Suryanshis.
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Shaktimaan is on the side of truth and he is so powerful that bullets, electricity, etc.
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Shaktimaan can do many things which are beyond a normal human-like he can stay underwater for hours without breathing.
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Shaktimaan became popular by name Sabkar in media particularly in Krtv channel in which Geeta and Gangadhar work and so they were sent for Sabkar interview to know if he is another identity of Shaktimaan.
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Shaktimaan was in the process of killing the germs of Kitanuman when Dr Jackal attacked them and they had to flee.
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Shaktimaan first came to the earth in her space, when Shaktimaan tried to stop her he was attacked by powerful rays from her space.
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Shaktimaan is a really powerful Suryanshi or even one of the most powerful Suryanshis, he possesses telekinetic power and can bring anyone to himself and even no one can move if he catches them.
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Shaktimaan has helped Shaktimaan many times in defeating Tamraj Kilvish's armies.
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Shaktimaan is a really powerful Suryanshi he has the power of wind and it comes out from his eyes.
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Shaktimaan is later killed by Tamraj Kilvish but his brother Abhimanuv has the same powers.
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Shaktimaan joins them and fills his place and helped Shaktimaan many times in defeating Tamraj Kilvish's armies.
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Shaktimaan is a really powerful Suryanshi he has the power of fire and fire rays come out from his eyes.
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Shaktimaan has helped Shaktimaan many times in defeating Tamraj Kilvish's armies.
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Shaktimaan is a genius and is very powerful, with the help of his brainpower he can break anything and even kill anyone.
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Shaktimaan has the power of Earth and his voice reaches till the end of the earth wherever he wants he is the head of a hospital.
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Shaktimaan is someone who has lost faith in the system and adopted a life of crime.
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Shaktimaan has a tomboy personality and is courageous enough to take on multiple goons.
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Shaktimaan was one of the most popular and longest-running television series for Indian children on the Doordarshan channel.
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Shaktimaan has been featured in The Wall Street Journal on the front page reflecting on Shaktimaan's positive influence on children.
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When Shaktimaan aired on Doordarshan, there were a lot of controversies created as children set themselves on fire or jumped off buildings hoping that Shaktimaan would save them.
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Shaktimaan has generated other media including comic books, Animated series, Television film, and YouTube mini-episodes with characters from the series.
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Comic books appeared featuring Shaktimaan and published in many Indian languages as well as English in association with Diamond Comics and Raj Comics.
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Shaktimaan reference was made in the 2020 Malayalam language romantic comedy film Dhamaka in which a character visualises another character as Shaktimaan.
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Shaktimaan is an upcoming Indian superhero film in the franchise.
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Video shows a flying camera and glasses, which were signature accessories of Shaktimaan's alter ego journalist Pandit Gangadhar, followed by the emblem on the superhero's chest.
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