Super Pulp Theatre

Super Pulp theatre is my proposed project.

There are at least thirteen stories in the anthology. 

Filmic Tales in South Asian Settings 

Junglee Manchhe will be compiled from some elements of Zimbo, Zimbo Shaher Mein (aka Zimbo Comes to Town) and Zimbo Ka Beta (aka Zimbo Finds A Son). Also inspiring it are the super low budget 1999 Zimbo reboot, a 1985 Telugu oldie (which was filmed in Andhra Pradesh but likely set in Gujarat for some ironic reason) called Adavi Donga ‘85 (yup, it’s the original one featuring Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi), its super violent Nepali counterpart known as Jangali Manchhe, and a much darker (and often NSFW) deconstruction/reboot/spinoff of both films simply named Adavi Donga, a biopic about a radical antihero. 

The first part has a married Vasave Bhil man and his wife realising the unintended downfall of their village in what would become Rajasthan. The second part has their little son grow up with a mentor and various other jungle animals. The third part has Navneet become a guile hero while nobly defending Dilawar and Mala against the most screwed up humans that Bhanswara’s local society has to offer. At the end of the third part, he and his own short tempered girlfriend get married in a traditional arrangement. The fourth part has them and their sons try their best to live in the ways of the forest, even at the cost of fellow humans who cut too much of it.  

The Village Brave is based on Prince of the Jungle by Rene Guillot, but set in Karbi Anglong, Assam. 

Hunterwali will be compiled from the various films featuring Hunterwali and her own fellows, even though it’s going to be set instead in the Swahili Coast during its colonial period. It’s also the only one with a mild downer ending; since not only will Hunterwali see the inevitability of her unlucky hometown losing itself to their local powers that be, she will also evacuate from it during its demolition. She married her childhood friend named Mavuno at the end.

A sequel to Hunterwali, based on Homi Wadia’s Jungle Princess, will be known as The Next Hunterwali. It has Hunterwali and Mavuno’s daughter Maisha living in the coastal forest with a shaman and fellow animals. As she grows up, she then meets her boyfriend Sadiki and his exploring family, only for her and them to be kidnapped by Hamid’s just as screwed up mother Adhab, who abuses her own stepson Hallam, has fired her lackey, Mavuno’s brother Shida, and is also killing fellow Husseins. 

Is a companion of Pierrot’s Super Pulp Theatre going to air online? If it does, it can be named after the retired GoodTimes Kids Classics line. 

The Volcano Dwellers will be compiled from Kyuuta Ishikawa’s Zamba. It tells the story of a young plane crash survivor who, following his grandparents’ murder by trophy poachers, was raised by his uncle and aunt in the jungles bordering Rwanda, Uganda and Congo Kinshasa as a result. Though he was mentored by a senior herdsman and was infatuated with a troublesome Chicago born girl named Selene, they all amicably separate, only for him to leave the jungle along with his shellshocked uncle and aunt for a suburb in the US Pacific Northwest.