Mumbai: Graphic India announced that Season 3 of its hit animated series, The Legend of Hanuman, has ranked as the #1 show in Hindi on 22 January 2024, above all other live action shows and films on Disney+Hotstar streamed that day.
Having premiered on 12 January, Season 3 of the series continues to be a trailblazer, setting an unprecedented milestone for the Indian animation industry.
The series has been a breakout success in India with independent media consulting and data analytics group, Ormax Media listing it in the Top 3 Hindi shows or films in India for the past two weeks across all streaming platforms in the country. Ormax estimates the show received 8 million views in the first 10 days.
Along with its previous seasons, The Legend of Hanuman is the only animated series to be listed in the Ormax Media chart of top 5 shows and movies. The series has also received an overwhelmingly positive response from audiences across age groups, resulting in a 9.2 IMDB audience feedback rating and 4.9 (out of 5) Google audience review rating, making it one of the highest scores for any original Indian streaming show or film.
The series was created by Sharad Devarajan, Jeevan J. Kang and Charuvi Agrawal, and produced by Graphic India.
Devarajan and Kang are the series showrunners and Executive Producers, with Devarajan as the lead writer and Kang as the lead director.
Graphic India founder and the series co-creator, Sharad Devarajan commented, “The Legend of Hanuman continues to be an unprecedented milestone for original Indian animation, and we are so honored by the positive responses we have received for Season 3 so far. Our hope was to create a transcendent moment for Indian animation and to do justice to this amazing hero that has inspired countless millions of people for thousands of years. We wanted to have Indian audiences experience the medium of animation as a new form of sophisticated storytelling that captures the complex subject matter and deeply spiritual themes of our mythologies. I hope people of all ages will continue to discover and enjoy the series in the weeks, months, and years ahead.”
