MY STYLE IS NAUGHTY, STYLISH AND SMART,
MAKING FRIENDS EASILY FOR ME IS AN ART,
SINCE CHILDHOOD JOZI HAS BEEN MY SWEETHEART,
BUT THREE NOT THREE ALWAYS WANTS ME TO DEPART.
CARTOONIST PRAN BELIEVED THAT COMICS SHOULD BE BEYOND THE WORLD OF IMAGINATION AND A COMPANION FOR THE READERS IN THEIR TIMES OF HAPPINESS AND SADNESS. HE CREATED THE CHARACTER OF RAMAN TO FULFILL THIS DESIRE SUCCESSFULLY. RAMAN IS A MIDDLE-CLASS MAN WHO IS CAUGHT BETWEEN HIS HOUSE AND HIS OFFICE. IN THE OFFICE HIS BOSS SCOLDS HIM AND AT HOME HIS WIFE KAMALI ATTACKS HIM WITH HER COMPLAINTS. ON ONE HAND HIS LIFE FOCUSES ON HIS SON SHANTU'S EDUCATION AND HIS FUTURE. ON THE OTHER HAND, HE IS ALWAYS FOUND TACKLING THE DEMANDS OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN TO GO TO SHIMLA FOR HOLIDAYS.
TRAPPED BETWEEN NEEDS AND DESIRES, THE READER SEES RAMAN TRYING TO GET A PROMOTION AND A BONUS. AT TIMES HE IS TRYING HIS LUCK BY PURCHASING THE LOTTERY TICKETS. IN ALL THESE INCIDENTS HIS FRIENDS MUNGA SINGH AND KHALIFA BRING IN MORE HUMOR. RAMAN’S INTELLIGENCE, THE TRICKS OF HIS FRIENDS- TOGETHER THEY CREATE A SITUATION WHERE ALL THE ANTICS OF RAMAN FALL BACK ON HIM. BUT AT THE END EVERYBODY IS ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE SCENARIO,OVERCOME ALL THEIR DIFFERENCES AND BECOME ONE.
‘THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMICS’ CALLS CARTOONIST PRAN AS THE WALT DISNEY OF INDIA. HE CREATED THIS UNIQUE CHARACTER AND USES HIS STORIES TO TEACH A LESSON OF ONENESS AND POSITIVITY TO THE READERS. IN THE YEAR 1983, THE THEN PRIME MINISTER MRS. INDIRA GANDHI INAUGURATED RAMAN COMICS TITLED ‘RAMAN - WE ARE ONE’. SHE HONORED IT BY DECLARING IT AS A SYMBOL OF ONENESS. GOING THROUGH THE COMICS OF RAMAN, THE READERS ARE AUTOMATICALLY REMINDED OF THE WORDS OF CARTOONIST PRAN THAT ACTUAL SUCCESS FOR HIM IS A SMILE ON THE FACE OF THE READERS DUE TO THE ANTICS OF HIS CHARACTERS.