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Chhota Bheem

Indian animated television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ3530198
Source-derived summary

Chhota Bheem (transl. Little Bheem) is an Indian animated comedy adventure television series, created by Green Gold Animations based in Hyderabad. This show is available in English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Marathi. Bheem is a brave, strong and intelligent young boy with a fondness for laddus. He often manages to solve everyone's problems which endears him to the townspeople of Dholakpur.

Plot

The series is set in a village in the kingdom of Dholakpur. The series revolves around Bheem, sometimes referred to as Chhota Bheem due to his young age, a boy who is strong and intelligent.

Bheem is a well-loved figure in the village, known for his good heart and helping nature. His closest friends are Chutki, Raju, and a talking monkey named Jaggu.

The show revolves around Bheem and his team using their skills to solve various problems affecting the village, unravel mysteries, fight evil villains that seek to harm Dholakpur and/or its inhabitants, or foil the plans of their rivals Kalia, Dholu, and Bholu, who aim to embarrass Bheem. Their antics also sometimes get them into trouble.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Chhota Bheem” is indian animated television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Chhota, Bheem and Indian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current 182-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008. For this dossier, Chhota, Bheem and Indian is the immediate research focus.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3530198. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from Chhota Bheem” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.