Comedians

In a quiet town called Kamareddy in the Nizamabad district of present-day Telangana, a boy grew up as the youngest child in a household full of women, four elder sisters…

In a small village called Chinakorukondi in the Khammam district of what was then Andhra Pradesh, a boy grew up in a government colony next to an ammunition factory. His…

She has a B.Tech degree in engineering. She could have taken a campus placement and spent her career writing code or managing projects somewhere in Hyderabad's IT corridor. That was…

In a hostel room in Visakhapatnam, a group of engineering graduates sat in front of a basic camera and filmed a short comedy skit about the most universally terrifying ritual…

In a modest home in Hanmakonda, a town in the heart of Telangana's Warangal district, a young boy sat in front of a Doordarshan television set and watched Charlie Chaplin.…

There is a particular kind of fame in Telugu entertainment, the kind that does not come from film posters or music videos or Instagram reels, but from living rooms. From…

In a modest home in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, a boy grew up watching his father stitch clothes for a living. There was no spotlight. No film set. No guarantee that…

There is something about Kapil Sharma that feels familiar. Maybe it is the way he laughs at himself before he laughs at others. Maybe it is the fact that he…