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Kayhan launches kids IP ‘FAB 5’ on Zee5 Kids platform
India’s animation race is no longer just about drawing characters for global studios, it is increasingly about owning the worlds those characters live in.
MUMBAI: Kayhan Enterprises has launched its second original intellectual property, FAB 5, on Zee5 Kids, doubling down on its ambition to build homegrown franchises designed to travel across platforms, formats and audiences. The launch marks another step in the company’s push towards IP-led storytelling, a space where Indian studios are slowly moving from outsourced execution work to creating and owning original universes of their own.
Founded by Dalbir Singh and Arushi Govil, Kayhan is positioning itself as an integrated creative ecosystem spanning animation, gaming, education and immersive storytelling. FAB 5 arrives on the heels of the studio’s first original property, Chote Tara Ka Bada Gadar, which premiered on Zee Kids and helped establish the company’s footing in India’s crowded children’s entertainment space.
If Chote Tara leaned into playful chaos and humour, FAB 5 scales things up with magical toys, emotional life lessons and a superhero arc wrapped inside fast-paced storytelling.
At the centre of the series is Anand, a 10-year-old boy who stumbles upon a group of magical wooden toys Rikki, Mimmi, Mitthu and Mayur crafted years earlier by a village toymaker known as Dadaji. Powered by the mystical energy of Aranyavann and guided by a sacred Rudraksh, Anand transforms into “Super Anand”, joining forces with the toys in adventures that blend fantasy battles with emotional coming-of-age themes.
Each episode runs for 11 minutes and mixes action, humour and moral dilemmas designed to mirror the emotional realities of childhood from learning accountability after mistakes to discovering the value of teamwork and empathy.
Dalbir Singh, Co-Founder of Kayhan Entertainment, said the series reflects the company’s larger ambition of creating stories rooted in Indian imagination while remaining globally accessible. According to Singh, India has already demonstrated its technical strength in animation and VFX production for international studios, but the next frontier lies in IP ownership.
Arushi Govil described FAB 5 as an effort to make children’s entertainment emotionally engaging while also encouraging imagination and creative thinking. She added that the studio wants its stories to leave children inspired beyond the screen itself.
The launch also feeds into Kayhan’s broader ecosystem play. Alongside content production, the company is building Macra, its talent-development platform aimed at nurturing creators across animation, gaming, VFX and digital storytelling through mentorship and production exposure.
As streaming platforms continue hunting for scalable children’s content, studios like Kayhan are betting that the future of Indian animation will not just be outsourced craftsmanship, but exportable characters, expandable universes and franchises with lives far beyond television screens.
