Anuvab Pal (comedian)

Anuvab Pal
Born Kolkata
Nationality Indian
Alma mater

La Martiniere Calcutta

Ohio Wesleyan University
Occupation Stand up comedian, screenwriter, playwright and novelist

Anuvab Pal is an Indian stand up comedian, screenwriter, playwright and novelist.[1][2][3] He is occasionally featured as a rotating co-host on Season 4 of the top rated podcast The Bugle.

Career

Pal co-wrote the 2007 Indian comedy, Loins Of Punjab Presents,[4] with Manish Acharya which The New York Times called 'a witty musical comedy'.[5]

In 2009, his play, The President Is Coming, was made into a Bollywood film The President Is Coming made by producer Rohan Sippy.

As a stand up comedian, Pal started out with The British Comedy Store when they opened in Mumbai in 2010 and has since toured across the nation with his acclaimed one man show, The Nation Wants To Know in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Shillong, Bangalore, and Pune.[6][7]

His first play Chaos Theory, a love story between two Indian professors, was written in New York City, and performed in various productions around the United States. The Los Angeles Times, while writing about the Artwallah Festival, a South Asian cultural festival where the play was performed in 2003, said 'Pal's characters are professional immigrants whose questions may not be so much about economic survival as intellectual and spiritual survival.[8] The play received its first professional production in New York City in 2010 starring TV and film actor Rita Wolf, directed by Alexa Kelly and produced by The Pulse Ensemble Theatre.

The India production of the play happened in 2008 and starred TV and theatre actor Zafar Karachiwala and TV, film and theatre actor Anahita Oberoi directed by theatre director Rahul Da Cunha and produced by his Rage Productions.

In 2011, he was featured in a New York Times video, 'A Night At The Comedy Club' and CNN Go, a travel website of CNN, mentioned him on a list of '20 Mumbai People To Watch'.[9]

He was also interviewed in the BBC News segment titled 'Having A Laugh In India'[10] and was, along with comedian and presenter Cyrus Broacha, the only Indian comedian on the popular BBC Radio 4 show Just A Minute with Nicholas Parsons.[11] That episode also featured famous British comedians Paul Merton and Marcus Brigstocke.

He contributes columns often to magazines like Time Out Mumbai. Three of his plays, Chaos Theory, The President Is Coming and 1 888 Dial India have been published as novels. He has also written a non fiction book on the Bollywood movie, Disco Dancer.[12][13][14]

Pal had his stand up special Alive At 40, featured on the Amazon Prime platform.[15][16] In 2018, his 8 episode comedy Going Viral starring Kunaal Roy Kapur was produced by Amazon Prime.[17][18]

In Feb 2018, Anuvab Pal did his stand up special The Nation Wants To Know at Harvard Business School, as part of the Harvard South Asia Conference.[19]

References

  1. ↑ "What does the nation want to know?". dnaindia.com. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Funny Man Pal Leaves City With Laughter Aches". newindianexpress.com. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Anuvab Pal becomes the first stand-up comedian from India to sell out his NY tour: watch his hilarious performances". ibnlive.in.com. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "Can history be a hoot?". livemint.com. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Sociocultural Commentary...and Singing!". nytimes.com. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "A Night at the Comedy Club". nytimes.com/. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "Anuvab Pal gears up for first solo stand-up show". indiatimes.com. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  8. ↑ "Far away, so close". latimes.com. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  9. ↑ "The Mumbai Hot List: 20 people to watch". cnn.com. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  10. ↑ "Having a laugh in India". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  11. ↑ "Special - India Special 2". comedy.co.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  12. ↑ "All about BEST IN STAND-UP COMEDY: Neville Shah, Anuvab Pal, Kenny Sebastian". bluefrog.co.in. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  13. ↑ "Books by Anuvab Pal". amazon.com. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  14. ↑ "COLUMN - On 'Disco Dancer', 80s India and a kind of Bollywood now forgotten". reuters.com. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  15. ↑ "Amazon Inks Groundbreaking Deal for 14 Indian Stand-Up Comedy Specials". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  16. ↑ "Amazon Video Has Signed 14 Top Indian Stand-up Comics, Promises Zero Censorship". Huffington Post India. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  17. ↑ "Biswa Kalyan Rath, Anuvab Pal among six comedians to star in Amazon Prime special- Entertainment News, Firstpost". Firstpost. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  18. ↑ "Going Viral review: Even Kunal Roy Kapur can't save this (non) comedy web series- Entertainment News, Firstpost". Firstpost. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  19. ↑ "Harward get some Indian laughs". Mid Day. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
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