Pakdam Pakdai

Also known as	Rat-a-Tat (International release)
Genre	Comedy Slapstick
Voices of	Shah Rukh Khan Sunny Deol Paresh Rawal Akshay Kumar Suneil Shetty
ComposerTemplate:Pluralize from text	Rotem Hecht Guy Dagul Tony Wilson
Template:Pluralize from text of origin	India
Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from text	Hindi
No. of seasons	13
No. of episodes	612
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Running time	6-11 minutes
Production Template:Pluralize from text	Toonz Media Group
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Network	Nickelodeon India Nickelodeon Sonic
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Pakdam Pakdai (transl. Chasing), also known as Rat-a-Tat, is an Indian Hind Flash-animated comedy television series, formerly on Nickelodeon India and later on Nickelodeon Sonic. It chronicles the comedic adventures of a slim, pink dog named Doggy Don, whose life is constantly disrupted by three mice - Chhotu, Lambu and Motu respectively, who regularly cause mischief in his life.

The show began airing on 27 May 2013. Pakdam Pakdai is narrated by Nana, the eponymous narrator. Worldwide releases of the show, however, omit this in favor of silent comedy.

Synopsis

Doggy Don is an anthropomorphic little pink dog, who resides in the modern suburbs of an unspecified location somewhere in India. Unfortunately, he shares his house with three troublemaking mice: Chhotu, Lambu and Motu, dubbed the "Chuha Party" ("transl. Rat Party"). Don is usually accompanied by his older brother, Colonel, an ex-army dog who has a stronger grudge against the mice with his shorter temper, and Ballu, a cranky and aggressive Great Dane, who is Don's neighbor.

Every episode in the series circulates around some type of chaos that the mice produce and the havoc that ensues as the dogs attempt to stop the situation from escalating further, only to either make things worse or take the blame for the mice's shenanigans. Ranging from stealing food to framing others for their own misdeeds and even hijacking vehicles to go on joyrides, the mice will go to any length possible to wreak havoc and irritate the people around them and escalate their situations to extremely outrageous heights, usually, but not exclusively the dogs.

Characters

Main

• Doggy Don is a pink Dachshund who is usually irritated by the mice. His days are always ruined by them - therefore, he always plans to get revenge on them by retaliating in a multitude of different ways, and rarely succeeds. In spite of his luck, he is quite intelligent and can quickly solve his way out of a situation if the mice don't interfere (unfortunately, they rarely don't). His catchphrase is "Don se bachna mushkil hi nahi, naa mumkin hai" (Escaping from Don is not only difficult, it is impossible). Don lives in a house with his elder brother, the three mice, and later Thaw. His house has a built-in laboratory, which he occasionally uses to conspire plans against the mice.
• The Mice
  • Chhotu is the leader of the Chuha Party and is the oldest out of all of them. He is a yellow mouse with brown hair and spectacles. Chhotu is funny, smart, hyperactive, and impish for pranking Don with his group. He's also the most ingenious for coming up with ideas on situations or methods. Despite this, he has himself defeated of others, which frequently leads to his defeat at the hands of the dogs and sometimes his own friends.
  • Lambu is a purple mouse with black hair who is the middle child of the group. He is described as cool, laid-back and chill compared to the others, but still doesn't shy away from having fun with his friends and generally wreaking havoc. He is quite the jokester and he likes to hang around with others. His catchphrase is "Don't make me angry".
  • Motu is the youngest of the Chuha Party. He is a fat grayish-blue mouse with a big appetite. As the glutton of the trio, he is fixated on food most of the time, which drives his group nuts.

Recurring

• Colonel is the overprotective, aggressive and occasionally arrogant older brother of Don. He is a muscular green Rottweiler with a soldier's hat (as he was a former soldier), tags, and white gloves. He almost always helps Don for dealing with the mice's shenanigans. He's quite strong compared to the others.
• Ballu is a cranky, easily angered, muscular-looking Great Dane who lives in the house next door. A running gag of the show has Don, Karnal or the mice doing something which aggravates him or causes him to suffer in a situation, and as punishment, he'll pummel them in various fashions, either onscreen or offscreen. He and Karnal are of the same age, and are sometimes shown to be friends.
• Major Saab Jr. is Don and Karnal's friend, who is also a dog. The brothers adopted him when Thaw's father, who was part of the Air Force, was killed in a helicopter accident. He is younger in age and smaller in size compared to both Don and Karnal. He is often seen hanging out with Don and Karnal and competing against the mice. He seems to be quite a gourmand, and will usually tend to eat everything in the refrigerator for a single meal.

Broadcast

Network	Release years
Nickelodeon India	2013–2014; 2017–2018
Nickelodeon Sonic	2014–2020; 2022–present
Nickelodeon HD+	2015–2020
Rishtey	2016–present
ETV Bal Bharat	2021–present

Movies

The series has 5 feature-length films, all of which have been released direct-to-television.

No.	Title	Premiere date	Ref
1	Pakdam Pakdai Doggy Don vs. Billiman	19 December 2014
Doggy Don and Karnal take a trip to the future and befriend a cat named Billiman, who turns out to be a villain with a facade and conquers the city. They, along with Chhotu, Motu, Lambu and the residents of the town, team up to defeat Billiman together.
2	Pakdam Pakdai Ocean Attack	22 November 2015
Doggy Don, Karnal and their brother, Major Saab along with the mice are urged to save the world from an evil shark, called Surmai Bhopali, who destines to transform the world into an ocean only resided by sea creatures by the destroying the balance between sea and land, which is located at the heart of the ocean. Along with their new friends, Boodhababa, Manumaan and Yeti, they defeat Surmai and successfully capture him and his fish army in a jail.
3	Pakdam Pakdai: Doggy Don in Egypt	21 January 2018
Doggy Don, Karnal, the mice brothers and an Egyptian cousin of Don work together to defeat an evil magician called Hairis who wants to take over the world.
4	Pakdam Pakdai Space Attack	13 May 2018
Doggy Don, Karnal and the mice brothers try to save the world from an alien monkey named Hyper Bunder.
5	Pakdam Pakdai Attack on Tokyo	16 December 2018

Video games

Mobile video games based on the series have been released by Indian software companies such as Tangiapps and Toonz Games.

Awards

The show is a coproduction between Nickelodeon and was launched in May 2013. It won the "Best Animated TV Episode" award at the 2014 BAF Awards, organised by FICCI, for the episode "Safari Don".

See also

• Oggy and the Cockroaches, a 1998 French animated series based around a cat and three cockroaches by Jean-Yves Raimbaud
• Tom and Jerry, a 1940 American animated series based around a cat and mouse by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera

External links

• Rat-a-Tat - Toonz India's website