This cartoon strip is popular amongst Marathi speaking population for the past 25 years. It is the brain child of Charuhas Pandit and Prabhakar Wadekar. It has been featured in over 5000 strips. The reason behind its popularity is the humour and its real life characters which common people relate to. So far 30 volumes of books on the character have been published. Besides, two films have been released in the last five years. Pribhakar wadekar, the co-creator of Chintoo died of brain hemorrhage on June 15, 2013 at the age of 56.