Khuda-Yana
Khuda-Yana is a surreal comedy action TV series, a bright parody about pirates, thieves, monsters, treasures, pursuits, fights, magic contraptions, spells, runes, wonderful environments, unbelievable creatures and great characters. Khuda, the main character, enjoys and suffers the bright and the dark side of having powers, knowledge and abilities. On the top of that: he’s not going to learn much about it. Thereby, Khuda-Yana’s world is a well cared mixture, a pastiche, a collage of genders and styles – pirates, 1001 nights, Greek myths, Jules Verne’s steampunk… from sci-fi, and fantasy to a few anachronisms for comedy sake – i.e. making Khuda talking through a modern cell-phone or wearing a modern cheerleader outfit for a short gag.
Characters
- Khuda, the hero: A feisty, carefree scoundrel who is (begrudgingly) learning to be a responsible king. A charming urchin that is used improvising and doing whatever he wants whenever he feels like. Khuda is the least prepared person to be appointed as a king. Despite his coming destiny, Khuda is irresponsible and irreverent; he faces everything and everybody with a total absence of planning or survival instinct. He’s a natural. Khuda simply twists a hard-regulated prejudiced world to his advantage.
- Chek (Storyteller apprentice): Khuda’s best friend and the chronicler of Khuda’s adventure. A bit of a wimp. A naive, demonstrative observer. As an storyteller apprentice, Chek must complete a good worthy story about a good worthy character of Kosala, in order to become a member of the Storyteller Guild. He has spent his life in the Guild surrounded by books and notepads, reading and writing. Chek knows everything about the history of Magesh and Kosala, and mad about every well written tale. He adores and idolizes Khuda as the greatest hero ever!
- Blue girl (mentor): A particular and temperamental genie with a very specific and tough mission: to train the future king of Kosala. So it has been for many centuries, so will she continue the tradition. Khuda is the most difficult character she has had to deal with, but she loves challenges. The Blue Girl is ready to straighten him out with a lot of discipline and imagination.
- Ravan (The current king): A petty tyrant who rules Kosala. Ravan is obsessed with controlling everything and staying on the throne forever. Fussy, narcissistic, vain, and a collector of weird and alchemic objects... He lives engrossed in his court without knowing that his days as king might end soon.
- Nagif and the kids of Kosala (Khuda's world): The leader and his gang of kid thieves. They are spread across Kosala doing their little robberies and scams. Since they live in an old abandoned galleon, they call themselves the pirates of Kosala – Ruled by a strict pirates’ code.
- Sita & Vak: A rival female thief, about Khuda’s age. She is faster, smarter and little bit taller than Khuda. A sort of thief nemesis, Sita and Khuda live in perpetual duel, but the real fact is that Khuda has only beat her once: the day he stole the Mystic Tulip! Vak is her pet monkey, a hateful nightmare for Khuda.
- Damon and the royal guard: Ravan’s minion, a feckless man-servant and despicable advisor. He can appear out of the blue with the last new or gossip that could affect the king. The Royal Guard is a massive group of strong and non-brainy soldiers.
Setting
Everything happens on Kosala, the Great. A different city from those seen in other stories and TV series. A mixture of classic Athens, imperial Rome, Jerusalem, Alexandria, renaissance Venice, Gotham, Bombay, New York... It’s a huge metropolis teeming with life and death. With its story of kingdoms and dynasties, its guilds, its titans, its festivals, its canals and neighbourhoods, its mountains, its lakes and bridges, its parks and its gardens, its bazaars, its libraries, conferences, tunnels, palaces and shacks, its secret passages, its burdens and outskirts, its 1001 nights, its Scheherazade and its Chosen Ones, its treasure caves and its past and coming battles.