Astra Force

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Astra Force
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Created by
Written byAlok Sharma, Swapnil Narendra, Aarsh Vora, Sandiip Paatil
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes52
Production
Running time22 minutes
Production companyGraphic India
Original release
Network Disney Channel India
Release27 November 2016 (2016-11-27) 
18 August 2017 (2017-08-18)

Astra Force is an Indian animated superhero television series created by Amitabh Bachchan for Disney Channel. [1] The series involves a superhero called Astra who is woken up from hibernation by two children, twins Neal and Tara, and they also become superheroes like him. Each episodes deals with action and adventure with these superheroes fighting aliens and other enemies. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Astra Force typically follows a format of two 11-minutes long independent "segments" per episode. The series is also available on Amazon Prime Video. [8]

Indiagames Ltd. released Astra Force an official tie-in game for the series in 2017.

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