Bangalore, November 14 2016: Bang on time for Children's Day November 14, comes a new female comic book super heroine for India -- Leela aka Mighty Girl.
A spin off from that other Indian comic hero, Chakra the Invincible, who has been entertaining kids as an animated film on Cartoon Network India, Leela is his friend and neighbour. She is one of the few people who know his secret identity and a twist of fate accidentally grants Leela unexpected superpowers: she becomes Mumbai’s newest heroine, Mighty Girl.
Mighty Girl was unveiled over the weekend at the Comic Con conference in Bangalore and comes from POW Entertainment whose creative head is the legendary comic strip artist Stan Lee and co-author of characters like Spider-Man , X-Men, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Hulk and the Avengers.
Mighty Girl will shortly be seen in the small screen: She will join Chakra in a new animated TV film entitled, “Chakra the Invincible: The Mystery of Mighty Girl" which is currently in production by Graphic India and POW for a 2017 launch on Turner’s Indian kids channels.