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Super V

Super V is an Indian animated superhero television series loosely based on the teenage years of cricketer Virat Kohli, in which a 15-year-old Virat discovers a family legacy of superpowers and fights a supervillain while juggling school, cricket, and family life. It premiered on 5 November 2019, coinciding with Kohli's 31st birthday, and ran for one season of 12 episodes.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Premiere	5 November 2019 at 3:30 pm IST, on Kohli's 31st birthday³
Format	12-episode animated series, episodes of roughly 23 to 24 minutes, in Hindi²^•⁴
Production	Collaboration between Star India, Cornerstone Animation, and Baweja Movies; commissioned in 2017⁵
Reach	Broadcast in 70+ countries across five continents via the Star network and Hotstar⁵
Audience	150 million viewers for the first 10 episodes of season one, per the producers⁵
Reception	IMDb rating 6.4/10 from 112 user votes²
Status	Canceled after one season; streaming on JioHotstar⁶^•⁴

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Premise

The series follows a fictionalized 15-year-old Virat, a cricketing prodigy modeled on Kohli's teenage years. On his birthday his grandfather appears in his dream and reveals that the family has long carried a superhero legacy, the last superhero having been the grandfather himself. Guided by these dream visits, Virat discovers superpowers of speed and strength and takes on the supervillain Navaar (also spelled Naavar), who is determined to destroy the world. His father, a lawyer, objects to his involvement, and Virat must balance his superhero responsibilities with parental expectations, school, friendships, and his sister and teachers.⁷^•⁸^•³

The first season traces a standard superhero arc across its 12 episodes: Virat learns the "A B C" (Alert, Brave, Caring) of being a superhero, finds the locked-away ring that grants powers, gains his name in the episode "The Rise of Super V", faces Navaar in a school battle, and prepares for a final confrontation in the finale, "The Hero Rises Again", which also keeps India's hopes alive in a Junior World Cup subplot.⁸^•⁵

Kohli's role. Virat Kohli appears in every episode as a "sutradhaar", a narrator figure who distills each episode's events into a life lesson for young viewers. He launched the series at a press event in October 2019, where he read out a letter he had written to his 15-year-old self, and said the show aimed to send the right message to young viewers who look up to superheroes for inspiration. He also lent his vocals to the series.⁵^•⁹^•¹⁰

Production and broadcast

Super V was commissioned in 2017 and produced as a collaboration between Star India, Cornerstone Animation (a subsidiary of Kohli's management company Cornerstone Sport and Entertainment), and Baweja Movies. Puneet Sira directed, with story and screenplay by Harman Baweja and screenplay and dialogue by Vekeana Dhillon; Harman Baweja and Harry Baweja produced.¹¹^•¹²

The series premiered on 5 November 2019 at 3:30 pm IST on Star Plus, Star Sports, Disney, Marvel HQ, and Hotstar, airing weekly on Sundays thereafter. It was broadcast in more than 70 countries across five continents, including the UK, US, Canada, the Middle East, South East Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The season finale aired on 26 January 2020, Republic Day, at 9 am.³^•¹¹^•⁵

A Bengali version launched on Star Jalsha on 9 May 2020, airing Saturdays and Sundays at 9 am.¹³ The show later streamed on JioHotstar, and Baweja Studios has reported that the series garnered more than 200 million views across the 70+ countries in which it streamed.⁴^•¹⁴

Reception

Reviews divided the audience by age. The Indian Express found the theme and animation likely to appeal to younger children but noted that older children, especially those near the character's age of 15, might be put off by the absence of the captain's cricketing adventures; it also praised the first episode's depiction of life in Delhi, from a Punjabi family setting to DTC buses and police stations.¹ The Quint judged the show a hit with children but predicted teenagers would change the channel, calling the animation at par with most Indian animated shows but uneven in places and critical of the premise of turning an already celebrated cricketer into a supernatural hero.¹⁵

By the producers' account, Super V consistently featured in the top ten shows in the kids' category for the two-to-14 age group, and season one amassed 150 million viewers for its first 10 episodes.⁵ On IMDb the series holds a 6.4/10 rating from 112 votes.²

Context and follow-up

Super V was part of a 2019 wave of original animation commissioned by Indian broadcasters, appearing in the FICCI-EY media and entertainment report alongside shows such as Fukrey Boyzzz and Golmaal Jr as examples of domestic channels commissioning local animated content.¹⁶ It also fits a broader pattern in Indian animation of adapting familiar live-action personalities and franchises into superhero or adventure formats for children.¹⁵

Baweja Studios has listed a follow-up project, Super V – The Film, described as India's first 3D animated superhero film featuring an Indian cricketer, slated for a global release in the third quarter of 2025.¹⁷

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Scripted television and comedy series › Animated television series (individual series) › Children's animated adventure and fantasy series › Superhero and action-adventure series

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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