{"id":4541,"date":"2016-05-01T16:20:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T10:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:37:54","slug":"biswa-kalyan-rath-laakhon-mein-ek-indian-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4541","title":{"rendered":"Why Biswa Kalyan Rath is Ready to Be More Than His Punchlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">B<\/span>iswa Kalyan Rath is a busy stand-up comedian. His <\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/what-came-first-the-egg-or-instagram-stardom\/\">Instagram<\/a> account painstakingly details the endless trips he keeps taking around the country to perform his brand of observational comedy that comes wrapped in existentialism. Rath flew to Shimla for a show last week, just a day after the second season of his own show, <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laakhon Mein Ek<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dropped on Amazon. And true to script, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/insider.in\/search?q=biswa%20kalyan%20rath\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tickets<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the hour of jokes that the comedian is about to perform at multiple venues in Mumbai all through this week were sold out merely hours after they went live. Even though, it\u2019s now been five years since Rath broke into public consciousness with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pretentious Movie Reviews, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the comedian\u2019s continued relevance remains indisputable. He seems like an artist meant for the limelight. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet when Rath transmuted his cachet into creating a web-series two years ago, he instinctively chose to leave behind this limelight and the comedian in him. The result was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/laakhon-mein-ek-review-biswa-kalyan-rath-shweta-tripathi\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laakhon Mein Ek<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an authentically bleak drama on India\u2019s ruptured education system, revolving around the travails of a 16-year-old engineering student who gets unceremoniously packed off to an IIT coaching centre. In doing so, Rath managed to dispel the customary assumption that an Indian comedian creating a web-series would invariably end up making a sitcom. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Incidentally, the comedian initially did start writing<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Laakhon Mein Ek<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a sitcom. \u201cSoon, we realised that if we set a <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/dwight-schrute-the-office-favourite-fool\/\">sitcom<\/a> at a competitive coaching centre, we will give students the wrong idea. It would be very like, \u2018Jao, jao maaje hota hai udhar\u2019 and I didn\u2019t want to do that because the first season was autobiographical as well,\u201d the comedian told me when we met at a suburban five-star hotel on the eve of the show\u2019s release last week.<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">It was also while writing the second season that Biswa Kalyan Rath realised the potential of not being in the show at all.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike other Indian comedians <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who have created shows for Amazon\u00a0\u2013 Kenneth Sebastian (<i>Die Trying<\/i>), Varun Thakur (<i>Shaitan Haveli<\/i>), and Zakir Khan (<i>Chacha Vidhayak Hain Hamare<\/i>) \u2013 Rath stepped back from gifting himself a starring role in his show. It immediately elevated the autobiographical <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laakhon Mein Ek<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to a distinct, sincere piece of storytelling that doesn\u2019t solely depend on its creator or end up as an onscreen vehicle designed to valorise and extend Rath\u2019s stage persona. Instead, the comedian turned creator in the truest sense of the word by taking a backseat \u2013 Rath co-wrote both seasons and has fleeting cameos in each. The move is telling of Rath\u2019s conviction in the originality of his voice \u2013 even in its new season, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laakhon Mein Ek<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> feels like the most rooted <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/sonchiriya-hindi-film-dacoits\/\">Hindi<\/a> show in recent times <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But was he never tempted to be the face of the show? \u201cThere\u2019s no way I could have played a 16-year-old. So I just played a teacher,\u201d Rath said referring to the first season where he was cast against type, as a listless professor. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laakhon Mein Ek\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> second season, the <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/why-kunal-kamras-bold-satire-stands-out-in-the-age-of-bollywoods-apolitical-stars\/\">comedian<\/a> has a brief role as a bumbling TV journalist \u2013 he has already played a version of this heightened character in the criminally underrated <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Better Life Foundation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He tells me that it<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0was Abhishek Sengupta, the director of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laakhon Mein Ek,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0who was the mastermind behind writing Biswa into the show. Sengupta happened to see Rath in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BLF<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and was convinced that the comedian should reprise, what he claims is a &#8220;cartoon character&#8221; in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laakhon Mein Ek<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Rath had other plans. \u201cActually this time, I had made up my mind to play a dead body somewhere,\u201d he revealed, breaking into peals of laughter.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was also during this six-month period, while Rath was co-writing the second season, that he landed on an Eureka moment: The comedian realised and felt invigorated by the potential of not being in the show at all. \u201cIt meant that people could go into the new season completely blind. Yes, we made the show, but this way it could also be something on its own,\u201d he added, visibly excited about the potential of not letting his involvement with the show dictate its ownership.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48341\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1556031280.jpg\" alt=\"Biswa Kalyan Rath\" width=\"651\" height=\"407\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>Biswa Kalyan Rath comes across as someone who seems to have perfected the secret recipe for nurturing distinct identities as \u201ccreator\u201d and \u201ccomedian\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Prime Video<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s an especially plucky decision on Rath&#8217;s part, given that the Indian ecosystem of comedian-led shows subscribes to the model of publicising the comedian. Most of the current crop of Indian comedian-creators have in the past. displayed an inclination to fall back on their reputation as comedians when selling their shows. Often, these shows end up becoming an off-shoot of their comedy styles and specials, a move that invariably makes it impossible for the show&#8217;s storytelling to stand on its own. Perhaps, it\u2019s why most of these comedian-led shows \u2013 with the exception of Sumukhi Suresh\u2019s comically dark <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pushpavalli<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 feel designed, and not created. It\u2019s this inherent reluctance to strive for separate identities as comedians, screenwriters, and creators that prevents Indian comedians from replicating the West, which relies heavily on <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/goodbye-the-mindy-project-mindy-kaling-mindy-lahiri-hulu\/\">Hollywood<\/a> comedians to churn out intelligent, subversive shows.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But <em>Laakhon Mein<\/em>\u00a0<em>Ek<\/em> could be the exception. Rath comes across as someone who seems to have perfected the secret recipe for nurturing distinct identities as \u201ccreator\u201d and \u201ccomedian\u201d with a near-perfect follow up to his first season. Yet he also insists that creating a TV show and a comedy special aren\u2019t entirely different from each other. \u201cBoth things feed off each other and ultimately in both, you\u2019re telling a story. In my comedy special, for instance, I only told stories. Before that, I wasn\u2019t doing story-based comedy and that happened because I was writing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laakhon Mein Ek<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span> There&#8217;s truth to that, given that the comedian&#8217;s special, <em>Biswa Mast Admi<\/em> shares its irreverent style of underlining the vagaries of the system with <em>Lakhon Mein Ek<\/em>. At one point in the special, Biswa launches into a childhood story to point out how state board students have fewer facilities as compared to the Central Board of Education students, told through the prism of a joke about an inter-school basketball competition. The truth in that punchline feels like a direct predecessor to the rural clinic in the show that&#8217;s left perennially fighting for medical supplies.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The show\u2019s second season, is in fact, a testament to Rath\u2019s determination to doing justice to his role as a creator. Instead of dragging the storyline from last season, Rath and co-writers, Sengupta and Hussain Haidry, decided to create a whole new universe. As a result, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laakhon Mein Ek\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> portrait of the systematic erosion of Indian healthcare is rife with piercing social commentary delivered through the eyes of a 20-something idealistic female junior doctor. And its biggest strength lies in how the makers stray away from reducing anyone to villains, instead telling a cautionary tale on how it\u2019s impossible to blame an individual when a whole system is fractured. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a way, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laakhon Mein Ek<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> then, cements Rath\u2019s standing as a comedian who doesn&#8217;t need punchlines to deliver big ideas. It\u2019s fitting then, that he now feels more like an <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.arre.co.in\/crime\/nitin-yadav-police-sketch-artist\/\">artist<\/a> the limelight is destined to follow.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the West that depends on Hollywood comedians to deliver intelligent shows, most Indian web-series created by Indian stand-ups feel like an extension of their comedy specials. 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