CHARACTERS
(clicking on the image will take you to when the character first appeared)
NEEL
Neel is a young medical student who's specialty is Varmakalai( an art form that is rarely taught to anyone). He was found nearly dead in the river near Varmapuri when he was 6 years old, and has no memory of his life before being found. He was raised by his teacher Assan Manasa Muni. He shares a unique bond with Manu another orphan who arrived almost at the same time as he did, to Varmapuri and is bound by a promise he made to his teacher to protect her
MANONMITHA/MANU
Manu is an 8 year old orphan adopted by Manasa muni (she calls him father). Her main aim is to learn Varmakalai from Neel, who refused to teach her until he owed her a life debt. When she is unconscious, a bird like creature appears that is said to be an illusion of her subconscious mind (chit maya)
VARAHA
Neel and Manu meet him in the forest when in falls down from the sky in his strange boat like contraption. He is an inventor of sorts. When I first created Varaha, I had based him on Sharvilaka - a very interesting thief from the play Mrichakathita, written by King Shudraka.
The character in the play had a silght OCD. A person who cannot do any thing without a how to manual.He first consults the scholars and famous texts to determine what kind of hole he has to make on the wall so that he can successfully rob a house. Very little of Sharvilaka remains in Varaha, who seems to have come a long way on his own. Varaha at times especially under pressure, might revert back to Sharvilaka though!
VIRAPAL
The blood thirsty dacoit chief, who is dying for a fight. He is known to behead friends and boil enemies, and yet it remains a mystery why his henchmen stick around. He seeks the favor of a mysterious "crippled one".
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