Headliners ft. Nishant Suri, Sumaira Shaikh, Tanmay Bhat & Urooj Ashfaq | Ahmedabad
Nishant Suri
The winner of Amazon Prime Video’s comedy hunt, Comicstaan, in 2018 – Nishant Suri is one of the brightest young comics in the country today! An engineer -turned- banker -turned- wedding photographer -turned- stand up comedian, Nishant clearly knows what he wants to do in life. He’s been doing stand up for a couple of years now, and in this while has won competitions at IIT Delhi, Vir Das’s Pajamafest, Radio One Delhi and Comedy Central’s Chuckle Hunt. He’s loud, he’s almost always angry and is said to have the one of the most weirdly animated hands on the circuit. He is still searching for Ramesh.
Sumaira Shaikh
Sumaira Shaikh is a Dongri-bred psychology graduate who gave up being a counsellor and decided to focus all her energies on Stand up comedy and content creation. Along with hitting open mics she has worked with AIB and as a writer on Son of Abish. She then joined Sumukhi Suresh to write Amazon Prime Exclusive- Pushpavalli, HotStar Exclusive- Beauty and the Feast and is currently working on multiple titles with her. She is also script supervisor for Sumukhi’s YouTube series Behti Naak. When she isn’t writing content or performing she watches wildlife documentaries and takes her mother’s fabulous cooking for granted.
Tanmay Bhat
One of the most instantly identifiable comedians in the country, Tanmay is the co-founder of edgy comedy collective AIB. He has written, directed and acted in several of their best comedy videos and projects, such as AIB Knockout (India’s first ever comedy roast), AIB Diwas (a full-day open-air comedy show), On Air with AIB (the satirical news show telecast on primetime television and Hotstar), and AIB Presents Royal Turds (a Bollywood-themed spoof award show). He has performed all over India, Dubai, The Comedy Store in London, the world’s largest arts festival (Edinburgh Fringe) in Scotland and Singapore.He’s also written for the Filmfare Awards, and moonlights as a humour columnist with Firstpost and Time Out Mumbai. His television credits include India’s first English sketch comedy special Ripping The Decade on Star World. Excitingly, for fans, he has recently got back on the stand-up stage and is trying out new material.
Urooj Ashfaq
Urooj Ashfaq is one of the most sought after young talent, among the new generation of comics taking the scene by the storm. Urooj is a 22 year old girl from Bombay, who found her first claim to fame through the TLC show, Queens of Comedy, where she was one of the finalists and a comedy force to reckon with. After the success of the show, Urooj has travelled across the country with her stand up act and performed along side some of the stalwarts, like Kanan Gill, Kenny Sebastian & Biswa Kalyan Rath. Apart from stand up comdey, Urooj has also worked on numerous projects as a comedy writer and put her wits to best use, in both fiction & non-fiction formats. She has also acted in multiple comedy properties (AIB’s If Apps were people, When some is sick sketches).