Sharad Devarajan

Mr. Devarajan is also a Producer / Executive Producer on a number of theatrical live-action film projects based on the companies’ comic properties including, the film adaptation of Gamekeeper with director Guy Ritchie,The Leaves with Summit Entertainment., Ramayan 3392 A.D with Mandalay Entertainment, Dominion: Dinosaurs Versus Aliens, with director Barry Sonnenfeld and producer Arnold Rifkin and a creator of Ani-Max and First Family, two television shows in development with FremantleMedia Enterprises.

In 2013, Devarajan worked with Stan Lee to create a new Indian superhero, Chakra the Invincible and was the Director and Executive Producer of an animated film based on the character which launched on Cartoon Network.Chakra the Invincible was also selected as one of the first wave of third party content to be launched from Rovio Entertainment worldwide through the Angry Birds app's ToonsTV platform.

In 2011, Devarajan worked with the estate of Elvis Presley to launch a book, Graphic Elvis, which he served as Editor and Co-Author of and which was released on the 35th anniversary of Elvis's death. As part of the creation of the book, Devarajan was granted access to many of Elvis's personal writings and notes in how many books at Graceland which were featured for the first time in the book.

In 2010, through Liquid Comics, Devarajan partnered with the Open Hands Initiative, to bring together a group of American and Middle Eastern students with disabilities to work together and create a new superhero that reflected their shared challenges and shared values.The superhero, “Silver Scorpion”, received worldwide acclaim for promoting advocacy for the rights of the disabled in the Middle East and was launched as a digital web series on MTV Voices. President Bill Clinton honored the students at the Clinton Global Initiative, stating that the comic book “will help to establish trust and understanding between cultures, to empower young people with disabilities.”

Previously, Mr. Devarajan was also the Co-Founder, President & CEO of Gotham Entertainment Group, South Asia's leading comic book publisher. Mr. Devarajan was instrumental in securing and launching the South Asian publishing program for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. introducing the South Asian market to such notable comic magazines including Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, Hulk, and X-Men. In 2004, Mr. Devarajan worked with Marvel Comics to reinvent the Spider-Man character as an Indian boy growing up in Mumbai. Unlike traditional translations of western comic magazines, the new series, Spider-Man: India was heralded as the industry's first “transcreation” where instead of a literal translation for a foreign market, the character was "trans-created" into an Indian boy named Pavitr Prabhakar living in Mumbai.