Pandit Gangadhar Vidyadhar Mayadhar Omkarnath Shastri

Pandit Gangadhar Vidyadhar Mayadhar Omkarnath Shastri or Pandit Gangadhar Shastri in short is the alter ego of the superhero Shaktimaan who initially works as a photographer for the newspaper Aaj Ki Aawaz and later becomes a college professor who teaches Hindi language.

Biography
Gangadhar is a diametrically opposite personality compared to Shaktimaan. He walks, talks and acts like a buffoon and doesn't appear serious about anything. However, this is done purposely to mask his true identity. Gangadhar and Shaktimaan are never seen at the same place together for obvious reasons.

Gangadhar is always alert and on the lookout for dangers that may harm the society and when he gets a hint of any such peril, he immediately turns into Shaktimaan. Nobody except the Suryanshis (a group of monks living in the Himalayas) know who Gangadhar really is.

Whenever Geeta Vishwas or anyone else finds out that Gangadhar is Shaktimaan, he immediately erases that part from their memories to conceal his secret. However, in later episodes he decides not to erase Geeta's memory as he is confident she would never divulge it to anyone.

Gangadhar is the stepson of Pandit Vidyadhar Shastri and his wife Arundhati Devi. He was unaware of his biological parents until he is gifted a Parlaukik Mani (a rare stone from out of this world) by the late Suryanshi Mahaguru Mrityunjay. The mani tells him that he is the son of Major Ranjit Singh and Kaushalya Devi who died in a helicopter blast soon after he was born.

Though Gangadhar is known to the public as a person with idiosyncrasies and a funny look with two protruding rabbit-like teeth and an awkward pair of glasses, he is in fact not like that. His real look is more or less like Shaktimaan and he maintains it when he is inside his house especially during meditation. However, when someone arrives at his house, he immediately changes to his more popular Gangadhar look before opening the door. Nobody except the Suryanshis have seen the real look of Gangadhar. Even Geeta Vishwas is not aware of it.

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