Planet Bollywood! (comic story)

Planet Bollywood
Doctor:	Eleventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Amy Pond
Main enemy:	Shasarak
Main setting:	Unnamed planet
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Panini Comics]]
Editor:	Tom Spilsbury, Scott Gray
Writer:	Jonathan Morris
Artist:	Roger Langridge
Colourist:	James Offredi
Release details
Printed in:	Doctor Who Magazine 424
Release date:	22 July 2010
Format:	Comic - 1 part
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Summary

A deep-space battle between members of an elephant-like race and the Shasarak leads to a ship crashing down into the planet below. When the Eleventh Doctor and Amy arrive on the planet they spontaneously burst into song. They are then attacked by the Shasarak. Amy escapes but the Doctor is caught. Amy gets to a nearby village, where she is greeted by a huge dance routine. A man named Rajiv shows her the Muse, a blue-skinned woman who has the ability to make people burst into dance. Meanwhile, the Shasarak leader tells the Doctor that they are trying to capture the Muse. The Shasarak burst into a dance routine and the Doctor escapes. The Muse explains to Amy and Rajiv she is an android who was used as an amusement for the Maharani, but when the Shasarak figured out her powers could be used for evil, they hunted her down. She was injured from the crash landing. Just as she finishes, the Doctor turns up and begins inspecting the Muse. He comes to the conclusion that she could recharge from a nearby power source, so he goes out into the town and a dance routine starts. While this is happening, the Doctor goes into one of the houses and is followed by the Shasarak leader. Amy, Rajiv and the Muse sneak into the Shasarak ship, where she recharges. The Doctor is about to be shot when the Shasarak start dancing due to the Muse being at full power, and are left dancing for hours. While the authorities are on the way, Rajiv and the Muse embrace their love and the Doctor and Amy leave.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• Amy Pond
• The Muse
• Shasarak
• Rajiv
• The Maharani

References

• The Doctor says his first model train set was a Hornby, Double-O.

Notes

• It is reasonable to assume that the comic has been written to invite the potential of a musical episode of Doctor Who, in the tradition of the musical episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess and Scrubs.
• The third edition of aHistory arbitrarily dates this story to 2397, as it seems to be set in the future when Bollywood culture has spread from Earth into space (but admits the possibility that Bollywood culture originated in space).

Continuity

• Another humanoid-elephant species appeared in COMIC: Where Nobody Knows Your Name.