East India Comedy

East India Comedy
Formerly
 East India Comedy
Industry Comedy, Stage performing, Sketch Comedy
Founded 2012 (2012)
Founder Sorabh Pant, Sahil Shah, Sapan Verma
Website eastindiacomedy.com

East India Comedy is a group of Indian stand-up comedians that performs comedy shows, organizes comedy workshops, corporate events and scripts, movies and television shows.[1][2] The group claims to be India's busiest comedy company with a record 130 shows across the country in the calendar year 2013.[3][4] East India Comedy maintains a YouTube channel that shows their comedy stints and satires on topics like politics, religion and the Indian film industry.[5][6] Much of their reputation was initiated through their online presence. The group hosts India’s version of the Golden Raspberry Awards (Razzies), the Ghanta Awards.[7][8]

History

East India Comedy was founded by Sorabh Pant in 2012 along with Sapan Verma and Sahil Shah.[9] Sorabh Pant and Atul Khatri left EIC in 2017 to pursue their solo careers.[10]

Performers

The group consists of five full-time performers and hires other comedians, cinematographers and editors as freelancers on project basis.[2] The full-time stand up comedians are:

  • Sorabh Pant: Sorabh is the Founder of EIC and has been rated amongst India's top 10 stand-up comedians by Times of India. He decided to leave EIC in order to pursue a solo career in 2017.
  • Sapan Verma: Sapan is one of the founding members of EIC and has done over 300 shows in the last three years.
  • Sahil Shah: Sahil is regarded as "One of the most promising names on the comedy circuit". Sahil is also one of the founding members of EIC.
  • Azeem Banatwalla: Azeem is an engineer turned comedian.
  • Angad Singh Ranyal: Angad recently made his foray into professional standup comedy.
  • Kunal Rao: Kunal is a retired chartered accountant.
  • Atul Khatri: Atul is Former Member of EIC and currently he is CEO of an IT company and is a Winner of "CEO's Got Talent".

See also

References

  1. ↑ "What We Do". East India Comedy. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  2. 1 2 Sengupta, Devina (25 July 2014). "New startups in comedy business step up hiring as humour delights". The Economic Times. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  3. ↑ Dubey, Gaurav (3 August 2014). "Are Bollywood stars fine with Indian stand-up comics mocking them?". mid-day. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  4. ↑ Pant, Sorabh (2014). Under Delhi. Hachette India. ISBN 9350098105.
  5. ↑ Why is India so reluctant to talk about sex?. BBC. 10 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Video: East India Comedy's new musical 'Wrecking God' shows why urban Indians dread religious festivals". DNA India. 7 October 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "Stage is set for the Ghanta Awards 2014". Indian Express. 14 March 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  8. ↑ Chatterjee, Arundhati (9 February 2013). "Vote for the worst of Bollywood". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  9. ↑ Jain, Tanvi (10 June 2012). "Comic Timing". Indian Express. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  10. ↑ Fernandes, Daniel (6 August 2017). "'You Started It' with Daniel Fernandes". Daniel Fernandes, Youtube channel. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
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