Roll No 21

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Roll No 21
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Also known asKris
Genre Animation
Action
Adventure
Written by
  • Avinash Aanand
  • Kaushik Chawla
  • Richa Deo
  • Alok Sharma
  • Swapnil Narendra
Directed by
  • Ah Loong
  • Uttam Pal Singh
Voices of
  • Pooja Punjabi
  • Vinod Kulkarni
  • Ganessh Divakar
  • Vaibhav Thakkar
  • Koustuv Gosh
Opening theme"Roll No. 21"
Ending theme"Roll No. 21" (Karaoke)
Country of origin
  • India
Original languages
  • English
  • Hindi
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
Production
Running time20 minutes
Production companiesAnimasia Studio
Cosmos Maya (last season)
Original release
Network Cartoon Network (India)
Release27 November 2010 (2010-11-27)

Roll No 21 (also known as Krish) is an Indian animated television series produced by Cartoon Network and Animasia Studios. [1] The show is available in English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada. It was premiered on 27 November 2010 as one of the first Indian originals of Cartoon Network India. [2]

Contents

Plot

Krish (incarnation of Lord Krishna) is an intelligent and naughty kid who stays at an orphanage school along with his friends - Pinky, Babloo and Madhu. An evil demon king, posing as principal Kanishk (incarnation of Kansa) is out to create havoc in the school. He has ulterior motives to take over the world with his army of zombie demons. To save his friends and school from annihilation, Kris prays to Lord Vishnu and is blessed with superpowers. Armed with a magical peacock feather and a flute, Kris is ready to take on Kanishk. Kanishk with the help of his minions always tries to takedown Kris and often brings demons from Paataal Nagri to do so but always fails.

Characters

Main

Recurring

Episodes

Season 1 [3]

No. in
season
Title
1"Keede Makode/Stop Bugging Me"
It's raining bugs at school. There are bugs all around. In the shower, in Kanishk's Coffee, in Suparna's make up kit etc. And none other that Vrishchika - the scorpion lady from netherworld is responsible for this. She's come seeking revenge from Kris. Meanwhile Dr. J gives the kids an assignment to collect the highest number of bugs. The kids collect the bugs in jars.
2"Madhu vs Maddy"
Madhu the geek creates his virtual alter ego, called Maddy, on a networking website. Its way of becoming a popular kid in class. Maddy is everything that Madhu had always wanted to be but cannot. Maddy is not a geek, looks suave, he is funny, he is a hero. Maddy has become the talk of the school. Dr. J hatches a plan to use Maddy to defeat Kris.
3"Friendship Day"
A knock on the head, makes Kanishk lose his memory and he thinks that Kris is his best friend rather than his sworn enemy. He doesn't even remember that he's the school principal anymore. Kanishk begins acting like a kid and sticks to Kris like glue. Though it is fun at first, Kris soon becomes bored…no enemy, no Kanishk equals to zero fun.
4"Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai/Double Trouble"
Kris has been behaving strange at school. He paints a moustache on Pinky's doll's face. Kris helps Golu bully Babloo much to the surprise of both of them. Madhu's specs are missing and Kris makes fun of him. Kris trips Sukhi as he is raking the leaves. Everyone hates the way Kris is behaving and can't figure out why? Actually, this is Tarak and Kanishk's evil plan.
5"Dho Dala/Pet Wash"
Pinky wants to keep a pet Puppy. But Kanishk would not allow that at all, as he hates animals and animals hate him! Kris gets an idea to make his friends' wish come true and also an opportunity to stoke the fire of Kanishk's wrath at the same time. Kris puts up a sign outside the ashram, "Free Pet Wash" and within no time, the ashram is filled with pets from all around Mathura.
6"Inspection Day"
It's Babloo's birthday and the kids are preparing for a surprise birthday party. Kanishk has got a whiff of the surprise birthday plans and is plotting to make Babloo's birthday also Kris' last day on earth. To ruin the birthday plans and to get rid of Kris, Bun Bun mausi (demon spider) is called from the netherworld.
7"Caw Caw "Kaka""
Kanishk has summoned Kaka/Bhusasur (The scary scarecrow) again to handle Kris and his friends. While Kanishk, Bhusasur and the 3 minions get ready for Kris, the kids are having fun playing a game of witch and wizards in the dorm. Golu dares Kris to sneak into the Principals office. Dr. J had bribed Golu with chocolates earlier to make him get Kris to the office.
8"Villans Ki Paathshaala/Finishing School For Villains"
Kanishk's failure to defeat Kris has brought shame to his family in the netherworld. So this time his mom, dad and grandfather pay Kanishk a visit. They feel that Kanishk needs to brush up his evil demon skills and so appoint a teacher for him and the minions. the teacher is a magical stick and it'll train Kanishk and the minions to be the most horrible demons who can crush Kris like a fly.
9"Jaagte Raho!/The Nap Trap!"
Yogachari arrives again from the netherworld to take revenge against Kris. He works his magic on the kids due to which the kids cannot sleep at night. The next morning when the kids are nodding off in class the 3 minions keep them awake in one pretext or the other. Slowly the sleep deprived kids begin to hallucinate. Yogachari uses the kids' deepest desires and make them turn against the kids.
10"Dushman Bhagao Helmet/The Bully Proof Helmet"
Fed up of Golu's constant bullying, Madhu makes a bully-proof helmet. The helmet can use the opponents powers against him. So the next time Golu tries to Bully or hit anyone Madhu uses the helmet and Golu ends up hitting his ownself. Dr.J steals Madhu's helmet and shows it to Kanishk.
11"Pinky Ki Chhaya/What's up with Pinky?"
Kanishk plans to attack Kris with the help of someone he least expects. What better than hypnotizing one of his best friends – Pinky! Kanishk's minion Chhaya Maya has come back and has worked her magic on Pinky. Pinky is no longer her usual self. She has been behaving a little weird off late. The evil Pinky lures Kris with butter, takes him to remote places on the pretext of finding her doll etc.
12"Babloo Ka Kavach/Evil Armour"
For the 'Show and Tell' assignment, Babloo gets his hands on an ancient armor. But little does he know that the armor actually belongs to the netherworld and it was Kanishk's plan all along to make Babloo 'find' the armor. Once Babloo wears the evil armor, he feels and becomes all powerful. He even takes on the class bully Golu in a fight. Babloo's armor is a hit at the show and tell.
13"Mathura High vs Lok Paataal Low"
At Mathura Anath Aashram holidays have been declared. This means no classes, no studies, no books for a whole week! Kanishka however is sad as this also means he can't summon any demons from the netherworld in the disguise of teachers. But Kanishk has another plan ready. The Lokpaatal school is also on a break. This is the first double–length and special episode of the Show.
14"Besurdas vs Vasudev"
Kanishk notices the uncanny resemblance between Besurdas, the demon musician and Vasudev, the school's PT teacher. Kanishk gets an idea to do away with kris. He decides to replace Vasudev wjth Besurdas. This way getting Kris would be a piece of cake. Vasudev is locked up in a cupboard and Besurdas takes his place as the PT teacher.

Movies

This is the list of feature films of the show. They are also one of the first original Indian movies of Cartoon Network India.

No.Movies.
1.Roll No 21 - The Quest For Swarnamani
2.Roll No 21 - Space Mein Dhoom Dhadaka
3.Roll No 21 - Time Ki Bhool Bhulaiya
4.Roll No 21 - Ticket To Australia [4]
5.Roll No 21 - Lights, Camera, Action Kris In Bollywood
6.Roll No 21 - Kris Aur Scuba Dooba Ajooba
7.Roll No 21 - Get Set Go Kris
8.Roll No 21 - Kris Aur Phantom Ka Raaz [5]
9.Roll No 21 - Kris Aur Shoonya Registaan
10.Roll No 21 - Kris vs Zombies
11.Roll No 21 - Kris On Mission Hoola Boola
12.Roll No 21 - Kris Aur Ulta Pulta Time
13.Roll No 21 - Kris Aur Ande Ka Funda
14.Roll No 21 - Kris Chala Jadui Jimbura
15.Roll No 21 - Kris Aur Japani Janjaal
16.Roll No 21 - Kris Aur Barfeela Baffu
17.Roll No 21 - Kris Aur Aflatoon Africa

Games

The show has been adapted into video games including by Zapak, an Indian mobile video game developer, which has released games such as Roll No 21 Demon Tapdown, Roll No. 21 - Demon Slash, Run Kris Run, Cartoon Network Ludo.

Broadcast

The series launched on Cartoon Network on 27 November 2010. From February 21, 2021 the rerun of series and its movies aired on Pogo with the title Kris Roll no 21. On November 13, 2022 the series was broadcast on their new sister channel Discovery Kids India. [6]

Awards

Roll No 21 received three awards in the Cartoon Network Super Toons Award 2013 and Indian Telly Award for Best Kids Programme. [7]

See also

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