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| Doga RAJ |
Doga is a hero character appearing in Raj Comics, published and distributed across India. Created by Tarun kumar Wahi, Sanjay Gupta & artist Manu in the year 1992, Doga is the first and as yet the only antihero character in Raj Comics. The character first appeared in the issue Curfew.
Doga is a hugely popular Hindi hero whose hunting ground is Mumbai. An orphan who works for a dacoit, he comes to Mumbai, where he is adopted by brothers with names like the Spice Girls (Adrak, Dhaniya, Haldi and Kalimirch). Doga and other Raj heroes like Nagraj and Dhruva sell five million copies annually. But while they have the fanatic affection of small-town and semi-rural India, they don't seem to have set the metros on fire.
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| Suraj and Doga |
Suraj was a skinny orphan who suffered a wretched childhood. He was found as an infant in a rubbish dump by Daku Halkan Singh, a ruthless Dacoit, who brought him up, but treated him like a dog (and called him that). While in Daku's care, the child witnessed endless horrors that would twist his adult psyche. Eventually Daku abandoned him, and Suraj's life took a turn for the better when he met Adrak Chacha and his brothers. Adrak allowed the child to make use of Chacha's gym, the Lion Gym, weightlifting to build muscle mass, and training in martial arts under Haldi Khan (one of Adrak's brothers), boxing under Adrak's brother Dhania Khan, and marksmanship under Kalimirchi Khan (the youngest brother). Then a former user of the gym, Killota, set up his own place, and tried to eliminate his rivals permanently. Suraj was the only survivor. He adopted the vigilante of Doga, wearing a dog mask to hide his indentity. He has no time for the law, prefering to deal with criminals using his guns and bombs.
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| Doga with His Allies |
Doga is considered to be among the three most popular comic leading characters created by Raj Comics due to his huge fan following. The other two being Nagraj and Super Commando Dhruva. His comics feature real life like stories usually inspired from true events giving his comics a realistic world far from science fiction making him more popular among mature readers.
Doga(Suraj) on his journey made many friends, some of these actually know about his real identity, those are Inspector Cheetah (now retired, working as private detective) and Cheetah's sister Monika. also it has been revealed in the later issues of Doga that Suraj belongs to judge Chowdhary's family further adding Kiran as his sister who is one of his allies and knows his secret identity.
In a later story it was revealed that Monika is actually Suraj's lost lover Sonu, who he thinks died many years ago. It was emotionally revealed in a comic "I Love You" along with a novel by the same name.
Doga has no special powers except that he is able to communicate with Dogs who help him gain information as he travels the sewers of Mumbai. In combat, he relies on his Martial Arts training, his fearlessness, his impressive physical power which is a result of his years spent in the gym as well as a fairly large arsenal of guns and bombs. Doga has showed extraordinary pain taking possibility, and never yelled or cried out in pain since he was a child.
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| Doga Fighter |
Doga's special characteristic is his renowned hatred for crime and criminals. This factor charges him up equally for every wrong-doer he comes across. Doga has been presented showing no mercy towards criminals hence he is hugely popular for his one man army image.
Director Anurag Kashyap's next film will be coated with the grit of small-town India. Kashyap has chosen for his hero a man "who has a mass following in small towns in north India and IIT campuses''.
In our blog we are providing some of his popular comics including his first appeared Issue No 74, “ Curfew”.
