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]]>Jagdish’s jokes as well as this web series are inspired by real life incidences and are something that all of us can connect with.
The thought behind Starting Troubles
The fact that such wide audience relates to his trainload of jokes and anecdotes is what motivated him to create a web series that rounds up his journey of transitions into this multifaceted life. Herein, Jagdish makes an attempt to depict his journey through overlaps, how he juggled roles, amid not-so-well-though decisions leaving him perplexed.
Given that this fun ride would have been tough to portray as multi-dimensional events during a comedy act, he decided to bring this to his viewers in a comedy web series format.
Thank God for this! And of course, Thank Jagdish for this!
Key message of Starting Troubles
Guised as humour and confusion, Starting Troubles means to convey a strong message of being persistent in pursuing whatever you want to do. There sure would be a few Starting Troubles, but the dust will settle down soon and you will come out a winner.
The pilot episode was self-funded by Jagdish. After its release on YouTube, it was very well received.
In case you haven’t seen it, watch it here:
The team of Starting Troubles
It cannot be denied that the team behind Starting Troubles is a perfect amalgamation of experience, talent, professionalism, and fun! The shoot went on for 9 long days, and the conceptualisation efforts of many more days came to fruition.
The team completed the phenomenal task of producing 120+ minutes of content with their commitment and hard work.
His team includes some of the renowned names of the acting fraternity. The core acting team comprises Parikshit Sahni, Renuka Shahane, Kurush Deboo, Rajesh PI, Jui Pawar, Bharat Chawla, Anushka Nair.
Guest appearances from the super funny Rahul Subramanian, Sanjay Manaktala, Manish K Tyagi, Praveen Kumar, Mandar Bhide, Navin Noronha, Navin Noronha, Aditi Raval, Sonu Venu Gopal, Ratnakar Baggi, Ravi Kaushik, Gaurav Chaturvedi, Gunda Srinivas, Pooja Singh, Maulik Shah.
Supporting Cast includes Neha Pathak, Ravi Namdeo, Moumi Guha, Ujjwala, Nikita Chaturvedi, Sree Hari, Jatin D Vakharia, G Bindu Rao, Vandita Verma, Anirudh, Vinay Kumar, Balaji, Nazz, Naren, Praveen.
Film Production House: Ten Motion Pictures.
Humour Sapiens cannot wait to watch the web series, which we are sure is going to be epic!
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SORABH PANT
Ex-cofounder of East India Company, and ace comedian, Sorabh Pant has written 3 books. A mind that, aside from belonging to a writer, also belongs to a stand-up comedian who has been touted as one of the country s top ten in The Times of India.
The Wednesday Soul:
Sorabh Pant’s debut novel, The Wednesday Soul, was incepted when a few incidents threatened to unsettle his blossoming career as a TV personality. Though he was certain that the accidents happening with his life were caused by his ex-girlfriend’s black magic, but he considered digging a bit deep and write a book. However, on becoming a comedian, he decided to leave that task to Bengali and dead Russian authors. Thereafter, he decided to explore the idea of another book on the world of death from the perspective of a certifiable lunatic, a world of rockstar gods, late celebrities, gargantuan creatures and other substance abuse-related figments of his imagination. After five years and eighty-seven re-writes later, The Wednesday Soul was born.
Under Delhi:
His second book, packed with hilarious flair and blatant voice, is about a girl name Tanya Bisht and her troubles with the issues of sexual assault and rape in Delhi. As wise politicians and holymen state that the girls who get raped are merely “asking for it”. Their skimpy clothes and fast food eating habits add to their sexual vibes. But, there is always the failsafe, call your would-be rapist “bhaiya” and he will be filled with brotherly remorse and will let you go. And that’s how any woman in Delhi can avoid being raped.
Pawan – The Flying Accountant:
A superhero novel about an invincible humanoid who is suicidal. Set in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, in an alternate reality. Arjun Singh, an accountant by the day and a reluctant demigod-superhero by the night, but he’d rather care about GST than his superpowers. Soon to be murdered by goons, he couldn’t be happier but things do not go as per the plan. He survives! What’s worse? He’s forced to work for an alcohol baron’s unofficial army, assassinate terrorists and fall into life-or-death battles with a Chinese dragon.
JAGDISH CHATURVEDI
The doctor inside Jagdish Chaturvedi made him write a few books on inventing medical devices and how should medicine be taught. His books – Inventing Medical Devices: A Perspective from India and Medical Theatre – Course Book: Teaching Medicine Using Theatre were published in 2015 & The Benefits of Failing Successfully: 10 Hidden Benefits of Making Mistakes and Failing was published in 2017. Herein, he shares his experiences, anecdotes, insights and failures while inventing medical devices in India. The idea is to give entrepreneurs (clinicians, engineers, designers, business professionals) a realistic expectation of the time, money, co-ordination and teamwork required to develop a medical device in India.
One year of Stand-up comedy: A Journey in India:
The stand-up comic inside him wrote this when a doctor-turned-innovator-turned-author, could not balance his schedule effectively to perform as an actor. He chose to transition from theatre to a comparatively less schedule-intensive art form – stand-up comedy. This book is about the first year of his journey in the world of stand-up and touches upon aspects of being a successful comedian, such as the process of writing jokes, delivering them, promoting a show, branding oneself, understanding the audience and even rescuing the show.
This book talks about the experiences of a budding stand-up comedian and carries a section that provides valuable advice from seasoned and experienced stand-up comedians.
For all those aspiring comics, this book is your answer to all unanswered questions. Grab it and accelerate your journey towards the stage and the spotlight.
AZIZ ANSARI
This foreign comedian with Indian connect, he is also an actor, producer, director, and a writer! Aziz has donned the hats of all these roles perfectly. You must have seen him before on the Netflix original series “Master of None”.
Modern Romance:
To Aziz, the dawn of the technological generation and how it affects humans in regard to intimacy, has been extremely confusing, yet fascinating. In Modern Romance, he explores the modern form of courtships – from tinder to eggplant emoticons. He as well talks to experts and explores the oddities and complexities that are present in such relationships.
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Jagdish Chaturvedi’s life saving devices aren’t any laughing matter. He has conceptualized and co-invented 18 devices, out of which five medical devices were licensed in the ENT, pulmonology, medicine and hepatobiliary spaces. Wow! But that’s not it. These devices apparently have reduced the treatment costs by over 50% and drastically lowered the maintenance required.
Laughing Matter
For him, practicing medicine and practicing comedy go hand-in-hand. He also performs as an actor on the small stage. He has recently come up with the pilot episode of his web series ‘Starting Troubles’, the story of which is mostly inspired from true events, it has been exaggerated and dramatised for improving the story line.
Check it out!
Humour is a Secret Weapon
Not that he believes in the notion that laughter is the best medicine, he does comedy because he sees humor as a secret weapon which can sharpen his creativity and improvisation skills. He got into stand-up comedy about four years ago when his tight schedule no longer allowed him to commit to month-long theatre rehearsals. Stand-up comedy allows him a flexible format, and offers space to write or practice whenever he has time.
Lol-worthy Acts!
When he aptly pinpoints the Bangalore traffic problem saying, “I was born in Bangalore, raised in traffic. My entire life has pretty much been a standstill.”
He as well brings out the doctor inside him on the stage while explaining the traffic issues. He says people diagnose others on the road, saying, “Abbey andha hai kya, dikhta nahi hai?” (Are you blind, can you not see?)
He often debates about ‘men-are-from-Mars, women-are-from-Venus’. Why? He feels most things women say in relationships are ‘confusing’. For example, they often end an argument with, ‘Do whatever you want,’ and it confuses him, he says, because that’s the whole reason for the argument, the things I wanted to do.
Chaturvedi explicitly states that a sign that shows any relationship is going downhill is when a woman asks, “How could you do this to me?”. He adds, there is no possible answer to this question.
In his Youtube series ‘The Magaa of Small Things’, he shows just that!
One day he waited for his wife to make a mistake, and showed the audacity to ask her the same question, “How could you do this to me?”, to which she replied, “How could you say this to me?”
Benefits of Being a Doctor-Comic!
Jagdish Chaturvedi believes that there are several benefits to doing stand-up, as talking to a room full of strangers, making them laugh, has made him more approachable and likable as a doctor.
He has also excelled the art of when and how to keep interactions with patients cheery.
The magical ingredient of comedy has taught him how to use a customised approach and figure out the most effective way to cure his patients.
ALSO READ: FUNNIEST 5 FROM THE SOUTH
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This guy is a class apart. His jokes are not only believable, but his whole demeanour is so likeable. Every time, he is up on the stage, the hooting and the laughing from the audience never stops. Be it his act on long distance relationships or the one on dressing sense of Indians – he tells it like it is. His best act so far has to be the one where he decodes the song ‘Lungi Dance’ from a South Indian’s perspective, more so from a Tamilian’s perspective and trust us when we say that you might actually fall of your chair laughing while watching this one.
Karthik Kumar
“People from North India, my name is Karthik Kumar, with an H in the middle”. That’s right people. This lad from Chennai is breaking all myths people ever had of South India, through his numerous acts. If the stand-up comedy scene in South India is prominent now, it is because of him. He started Evam way back in 2003, with his friend Sunil Vishnu, which was mainly into theatre. They forayed into stand-up in 2010, when it was unheard of down South. Since then, there has been no looking back and people down South have no qualms of laughing at themselves anymore. His first stand-up Poke Me, is one of his best.
Praveen Kumar
Yet another Kumar and this one is as hilarious as the other one. His style of comedy is rather different though, where his jokes come in the way of a casual conversation and that one sentence or word sticks with you. His act on Education and Raising kids does just that; where he asks the crowd “How many educated people here?” and then he goes on to say, “I was just checking if there were any Delhi people in the crowd!” …LOL! Watch his hilarious take on the subject here.
Alexander Babu
He is a Christian and a stand-up comedian; when he combines both into his acts, it is nothing but a laughter riot. Alex, as he is called, is easy to connect to as his acts brings characters to life, whom we would have also met and interacted with, at some point in our lives. A proof to this is the act on ‘Mamas, Minorities and Music’; his mimicry of a Mama (South Indian uncle) hits the right spot and you can see how the audience bursts out in laughter, including the other mamas present there!
Jagdish Chaturvedi
“I was born in Bangalore and raised in traffic” – that’s how this doctor-cum- stand up introduces himself in every act. Every time he does so, he gets a roaring laughter from the audience. He has put laughter therapy to the best use possible. He uses a mix of Hindi, Kannada and English in most of his acts and that is why people from anywhere can relate to his performance. Here is one act where he talks about Bangalore traffic and road rage – simply amusing!
ALSO READ: 5 PLACES TO ENJOY STAND UP COMEDY IN BANGALORE
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