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It’s not brought up too frequently in the recent waves of D.C. and Marvel blockbusters, but it’s kind of messed up that all the superheroes appear to be headquartered in New York. Yes, Manhattan magnetically attracts mega-powered megalomaniacs like mosquitos to a BBQ, but the rest of America, not to mention the rest of Earth, needs help as well. The comic books saw the Marvel universe establish a 50 States Initiative to ensure superheroic defense all across America, and the movies tend to send heroes on a jet toward danger wherever it may fall on the globe, but the reaction time is simply too slow. Enter Chakra the Invincible, a superhero created by Stan Lee, Sharad Devarajan, and Gotham Chopra to serve the inhabitants of India. The subject of a string of comic books along with an animated film geared toward the sizable Indian market (2013’s animated film ran in English on Cartoon Network, but was also translated into Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu) will soon take on another new life with a full-blown Bollywood live-action adaptation, Variety reports.

Last week we looked at Bollywood He-Man, and now it seems that Superman has also made his way to India for an all-singing, all-dancing revue. The video features Superman flying with -- I guess Spider-Woman, although it's not the right costume...

Ok, I'm going to try and explain this in one sentence: Basically, there's a Bollywood version of He-Man where the lead character looks like he got pulled out of the Beastmaster series, although mostly he just stands there and poses while a woman with a high-pitched voice gyrates around him and men in $19...