Those who are familiar with stand-up comedy scenes in India, all of m kw of Tanmay Bhat. Tanmay Bhat is an Indian stand-up comedian and former CEO of AIB. He is also one of initial stand-up comedians in India. He is widely popular for his comical take on political and controversial subjects.

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Tanmay Bhat was born and brought up in Mumbai. Tanmay is a comedian, producer, scriptwriter, and actor, he is jack of all tres. Tanmay was initially pursuing marine biology but destiny seemed to have or plans for him. He faced a lot of criticism for being overweight and refore has said in interviews before that he started using comedy as a defense mechanism. During this time, he realised that his calling was to make people laugh.

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How did Tanmay Bhat become popular?

Tanmay started doing a lot of open mikes and stand-up comedy shows from 2009. His quirky punch-lines garnered him accoles from audience. Tanmay Bhat was also rated as ‘Top 10 Comics’ by a national daily. Tanmay won a comedy contest held by Vir Das, a fellow comedian. He n joined ir team Wierdass Comedy and opened for Vir Das’s show, Walking On Broken Das.

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turning point in his career came when he started AIB with a fellow comedian, Gursimran Khamba in 2012. What was initially started as a YouTube channel later went on to become one of India's most popular creative ncy. Contemporary comedians Rohan Joshi and Ashish Shakya joined group later. AIB turned out to a nationwide success until company dissolved in May 2019.

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In 2018,  #MeToo movement took over world. movement shook everybody and brought to light alleged misdemeaurs and misconducts of several people. Tanmay Bhat was one of m. He was accused of kwing about Utsav Chakraborty’s alleged acts of sexually harassing some women and t doing anything about it. Utsav Chakraborty was publicly called out on Twitter by several women for inappropriately texting m and inappropriate behaviour at  workplace.

Tanmay Bhat took to Instagram on July 2019 to publicly dress audience about issue. He posted a series of videos on social media in which he claimed that he has been diagsed with clinical depression. He opened up about struggles he went through from October 2018. Since accusations, Tanmay Bhat has preferred to stay away from public eye.

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