Vir Das On How Comedy Is About How Two People Can Disagree & Still Laugh About It

Actor and comedian Vir Das is indeed on an absolute high lately owing to the recent success of his show on Netflix, Hasmukh. Apart from riding high on the success of Hasmukh, Das is known to be a fearless commentator on socio-political issues. He feels he isn’t alone on his endeavor to tell it like it is. “ But because I am a small fish in the public eye I get some attention.I am not saying something others are not. I have been brought up in a family where we were encouraged to ask questions about governance, knowledge and just about anything under the sky. My opinions get emphasized on social media. And they find their way into my stand-up comedy. I think the basis of comedy is that two people can disagree and still laugh about it under the same roof.I’ve been doing this for ten years,” he said in an interview with Iwmbuzz.

On his relationship with creativity, Das said, “I let my art do all the talking. I sometimes feel the art I put out is smarter than me because of the people I get to collaborate with. As you do this longer and longer you may not get better or funnier, but you are certainly able to access your emotions better. The material in your art becomes more liberated because you know who you are.”

Vir is currently enjoying his lockdown period. “I’ve been a circus performer for the past decade, traveling seven months a year. So I’ve never had this kind of time at home. So it’s nice to have this pause. So far I’ve been regurgitating output for the past decade now I’ve time to ingest content. And I had really been ignoring the digital platform. So far I had done some stand-up on Netflix. But never played the YouTube or the Instagram game. I am just taking time off to put up some uplifting feelgood content on those two platforms.”