#Captain nemo free
Giant monsters of the deep and dinosaurs roaming free in a lost world in the centre of the earth has been the introduction to Verne for most of us. While Shah did not have nice things to say about his LXG experience, it would be beyond nice to watch an Indian Nemo, being the master of his realm, bringing succour to beleaguered westerners all the while calmly battling giant squids. Even though in all the gazillion adaptations of Twenty Thousand Leagues… white actors including Michael Caine (1997) and Patrick Stewart (Mysterious Island, 2005) have played Nemo, Naseeruddin Shah did play him in the diesel-punk adaptation of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill’s comic book, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003). In Captain Nemo, we have the perfect superhero-brave, intelligent and strong, who lives life on his own terms and we have a French writer to thank for it. He takes to the oceans in his futuristic submarine, Nautilus, which he designed and built. Throwing himself wholeheartedly into the First War of Independence in 1857, Prince Dakkar loses his family and after the war is lost, quits terra firma completely. Marriage to a princess and the birth of two children should have been the prince’s happily ever after moment but that was not to be. With the castaways of The Mysterious Island, we learn of Nemo’s history.Ī Prince of Bundelkund known as Prince Dakkar in his earlier life, he lived like many Indian princes of the time, receiving a western education and being a man of letters, well-versed in arts and sciences. Verne chose the middle path of keeping Nemo’s origins vague even though there are some clues as to his nationality in Twenty Thousand Leagues… He helps an Indian pearl diver from a shark attack and is fiercely anti-imperialistic. Hetzel did not want to lose out on sales of the Russian translations (ever the commercial publisher) and tried to get Verne to change Nemo’s enemies to slave traders and thus make him a regular hero.
Verne had initially conceived of Nemo as a Polish scientist who goes on a roaring rampage of revenge against the Russians who killed his family during the January Uprising. Verne had left Nemo’s identity purposely vague after clashing with his publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel. Twenty Thousand Leagues… further occasioned reading The Mysterious Island (1975) where the captivating backstory of the fascinating Captain Nemo is revealed.
#Captain nemo series
An offer of free audiobooks of Jules Verne (Febru– March 24, 1905) classics was a chance to revisit the wild and wondrous worlds described by Verne in his Voyages Extraordinaires series which includes the big three - Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872).
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