Disney Channel, India’s #1 entertainment destination for kids and their families is all set to bring a ‘Perry-fect’ gift for Phineas and Ferb fans this festive season --- The Indian television premiere of Phineas and Ferb’s latest adventure, a DISNEY CHANNEL ORIGINAL MOVIE (DCOM)- Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension on September 25 at 10 am. Brothers Phineas and Ferb are visiting India for the very first time and were seen admiring Mumbai’s iconic landmark, the “Gateway of India” in their first ever public appearance in Asia-Pacific today. The brothers will attend a star-studded premiere of their movie tomorrow at PVR theatre, Oberoi Mall along with bevy of their celebrity friends from Disney Channel. They will also travel to Delhi and Chennai for meet and greets with their fans gearing up to the on-air premiere of their movie.
Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension is an adventure caper, where Phineas and Ferb finally discover that their pet platypus, Perry, is a secret agent, ‘Agent P’, who battles the forces of evil almost every day. The boys team up with Perry on an adventure through a parallel universe where they must ultimately thwart the disastrous plans of a threat bigger than the dim-witted Dr. Doofenshmirtz: a parallel Doofenshmirtz, who, unlike his counterpart, is truly an evil genius with no goofy side or soft spot.
In the United States, Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension holds the record of 2011’s No. 1 entertainment cable telecast and also ranks as basic cable’s most-watched animated telecast ever among kids 2-11; The movie is also cable’s No. 5 movie ever in total viewers across the United States. The Disney original movie will premiere on Disney Channel in India on September 25, 2011 at 10 am.
Fun Facts about Phineas and Ferb:
• Phineas and Ferb is #1 Disney show on the Disney network and has enthralled over 55 million viewers in 2011 (to date).
• ‘Phineas and Ferb’, the series has been honored with a 2010 Emmy® Award for "Outstanding Writing in Animation" and a BAFTA 2009 Children's Award nomination, apart from two Emmy nominations for "Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics" and "Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music."
• The creators, Dan Povenmire and Jeff ‘Swampy’ Marsh had earlier worked together on the blockbuster show, ‘The Simpsons’
• Dan Povenmire has also worked on another Superhit animated comedy, ‘Family Guy’
• There’s a little bit of India in ‘Phineas and Ferb’. One of their closest friends is an India called, Baljeet
• The inspiration to introduce an Indian character in the series came from Jeff when he first worked with an Indian called ‘Baljeet’ in the UK, where he was exposed a lot to the Indian culture