His turn as a buxom Sohni to Khan’s Mahiwal turned them into the show’s favourites, won them the season and opened TV up as a platform for the standup, sketch shows and on- air gags still popular today. Watch Nani aka Ali Asgar in action His Dadi from the TV sketch show Comedy Nights with Kapil (on Colors) transformed into Pushpa Nani in April as Asgar moved to The Kapil Sharma Show (on Sony). He wears his wig in a demure grey bun; amply pads his chest, hips and behind; and favours pastel saris. He’s also played the courtesan Begun Luchi, the starlet Babynaz, and other female characters, “jiggling my legs to get comfortable every time I need to keep my knees closed onstage”. Several other male TV comics have included female characters in their routines over the past decade. Sunil Grover was the dim but loveable village girl Gutthi on Comedy Nights and plays Rinku Bhabhi, another dim but loveable woman, on The Kapil Sharma Show. Kiku Sharda, who previously played Pankhuri and Palak, is now Rinku’s sister- in- law Santosh and a nurse called Bumper. Chandan Prabhakar plays Vimla Devi and Pakori. ![]() On Comedy Nights Live (Colors), Sidharth Sagar plays the garba- obsessed Mangala Mufatlal. Meanwhile Ssumier Parischa’s popular web character Pammi Aunty has a role on Comedy Nights Bachao (Colors); while Gaurav Gera’s characters Chutki, Billi Maasi, Binnu, Baarish, Kumari Kusum have found fans on the web and social media. Sidharth Sagar’s signature dance move as Mangala Mafatlal has made him (and her) a household name. TURNING THE TIDEGera, who also plays several male characters, writes, edits and creates his own material online, says that his female roles constitute only a fraction of his work. Folk theatre across India has long used men in drag for laughs, a remnant of the time when women weren’t allowed to perform on stage. ![]() The current explosion in on- screen male- to- female transformations, however, is taking female characters down paths they’d never have taken with female actors. Drag allows more leeway with a female character, says Kiku Sharda. There’s more horseplay, you can make age jokes, size jokes, looks jokes, act horny and exaggerate stereotypes relatively safely. Even if we cross a line, it’s easier to forgive.”Playing a caricature of a woman also frees up the actor to be petty, politically incorrect, gossipy, vain and silly — all great fodder for comedy in the Indian setting. Gaurav Gera is looking for a good way to get Chutki to call Donald Trump, Donald Trunk. Find his clips online. They draw from mothers, sisters, relatives, neighbours and friends and how they deal with technology, sophistication, the news and their lives. And then they exaggerate. To create Pammi Aunty and her circle of gossipy Punjabi women, Ssumier Pasricha focuses on his community’s stereotype. He then checks Twitter for current affairs that might penetrate Pammi’s world. For Mangala Mafatlal, Siddharth Sagar found that the script could only take him so far. He had to invent Mangala’s signature waddle and garba move himself. What is Pammi Aunty complaining about now? Find out in her post- Navratri video. Gera, on the other hand, makes sure to start with the basics: his female alter- ego’s social standing, likes and dislikes; adding layers and secondary characters later. Billi gets to call her neglectful husband . Chutki can be more outspoken, and enjoy saying the word . Binnu can hum tuneless songs for no reason, while Kumari Kusum, a fictional Haryana boxer, can throw punches with abandon. Read: More about Pammi Aunty, now playing on your TV too“It helps that we’re not playing actual people,” Asgar says. She has to be fun.”The Kapil Sharma Show team constructs detailed backstories for each of their characters, says Sharda. So many comic situations come out of that.”As the small- town sister- in- law Santosh, Kiku Sharda (centre) can take comic liberties that would make most women uncomfortable. The most memorable characters, Sagar says, are the ones that forge a connection beyond the idea of a man in costume. If she’s not loveable, she won’t be loved.”Roshan Taneja, who has been training actors for stage and screen for 5. Gera recalls watching old films in which the man, dolled up as a woman, would still find the need to conspicuously scratch his behind. Today’s drag artists are more careful — no sideburns peek through wigs, no ironic looks at the camera. ![]() MAKING IT WORKTV’s newfound space for comedy means stars like Asgar and Sarda often spend days playing women on one show, taking off makeup, rushing to play a male character on another programme, and rushing back to their female personas for more scenes.“The makeup room is a weird zone,” says Sharda, who also plays a very macho Akbar on the show Akbar Birbal. A phone screen is for shorter, more intimate material. Gera gets by with wigs, a bit of makeup and Snapchat filters. Pasricha needs his green face- pack and his hair covered by a towel to do one- take videos of under a minute. Dear Kapil Paaji, I m big fan of yours I have never missed your previous super hit show COMEDY NIGHTS WITH KAPIL. I have always dream that oneday I will see ur live. Visit NDTV.com to Watch Great Indian Tamasha Videos, Great Indian Tamasha recorded TV Shows videos, TV Episodes News Videos, TV Shows (Web Exclusive Clips Videos. Sushant Singh Rajput isn't surprised that his latest release, a biopic on the life of Indian skipper MS Dhoni, has won praises critically and with the. His Dadi from the TV sketch show Comedy Nights with Kapil (on Colors) transformed into Pushpa Nani in April as Asgar moved to The Kapil Sharma Show (on Sony). With the new season of the Salman Khan As a comic, he’s busier than ever. Read: Kapil Sharma on comedy finally getting its due. And the audiences are lapping it up. Women often tell Sharda they wish they had a daughter like his Santosh or Palak. Fans requesting selfies call the actors “Ma’am”. There’s a second glance, but rarely a double take. There are times when the heels get uncomfortable, though. Asgar stopped playing women two years ago, after his son, now 1. He was left without work for nearly eight months before he took up a children’s show and went back to drag this year. And sometimes, the gender bending takes a weird turn. Asgar was in his Dadi costume at an event in Delhi in 2. Either way it was unsettling.”.
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