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July 17, 2010 (Washington Bangla Radio) DAM 999 introduces an Octopian Boy in the movie.

Prognosticators have always made everyone curious and the latest was Paul Octopus – a two year old Octopus who predicted FIFA World Cup 2010 winners.  He predicted the winners in each game and when Andres Iniesta won the one and only goal for Spain, his final prediction also came true, exciting every one. Paul the Octopus has predicted the victory of Spain on the last day by picking a mussel from a glass box decorated with Spanish National flag. Paul Octopus is currently live in Oberhausen Sea Life Aquarium of Germany.  Sohan Roy, the director of DAM 999 Movie, was inspired by Paul Octopus and its predictions before, and that has lead him to introduce a new character Octopian Boy in his movie.  With some myths and horoscope predictions in the movie this Octopian Boy also plays a lead role.

Octopian Boy is a fictional superhero toy which has been created for the movie DAM 999. It is the toy and companion of Sam, child character in the movie DAM 999 which is played by Jineet Rath. Octopian Boy has super strength and agility, he can fly, dive into deep water and he has devices of his own invention with which he can fight the evil forces to rescue the world. The Octopian boy carries a cute octopus on his shoulder.

Sam is very attached to this toy and he carries it everywhere he goes. He thinks this toy can save him from all the evil forces.

It was a challenging task to design such a character, as the toy should look different from all the other toys present in the market. And as the toy has to dive into deep water and has to swim the designer has given it an aerodynamic shape which enables it to swim fast and also it gives a compact look to the toy. Autodesk invader is used for creating internal robotic parts and Autodesk 3D Max for creating the outer portion of the toy.

As every football (soccer) lover turned to Paul Octopus during FIFA World Cup 2010, children worldwide will be gazing at this Octopian Boy by the release of DAM 999. In DAM 999, the Octopian Boy carried by child character Sam is a toy having future prediction powers.  Sam is very bonded to this toy and he carries the toy everywhere he goes.  He thinks this toy can save him from all the mishap. The Octopus who lives on the shoulders of Octopian Boy is very cute and funny enough to share some interesting sequences in DAM 999 which ends up with the story of a DAM Disaster.

Wait till December – the month marked for the worldwide release of DAM 999.