Aditi Mittal Biography and Career
Aditi Mittal is an Indian stand-up comedian, actress and writer. She born on 12 November 1985 at Mumbai, Maharashtra. She is One of the first women to do stand-up comedy in India, Mittal has been rated amongst India’s top 10 stand-up comedians by The Times of India. In this article we are going to talk about the biography, career, notable works, films and family of Aditi Mittal so read the article till the end.
Whereas CNNIBN named her as one of the top 30 “witty, intelligent and incredibly fun” Indian women to who is most followed on Twitter. Mittal has written columns and articles in Grazia Men magazine, DNA, Firstpost.com and Financial Times (UK, Weekend Edition). She speaks fluent English and Hindi and has comprehension in French and Spanish.
Career
Aditi Mittal is a famous stand-up comedian and she worked in so many shows and concerts, this biography article is incomplete without talking about her life and shows. Let’s know about her journey.
She started his career as a stand-up comedian in the year 2009. Mittal believes that humour is the best fix for gravitas. A fan of Tina Fey and Kristen Wiig, she stepped into the stand-up comedy scene after quitting her job in New York and moving to India. Allured by the burgeoning interest in it, she trained herself, subsequently moving on to live performances.
Along with American and South African comics, Mittal has been featured in the American documentary Stand-Up Planet, which depicts a stand-up comic’s quest to find some of the best humour from corners of the developing world.
She has appeared on CNN-IBN’s Phenking News with Cyrus Broacha, and is a staple on the political satire show Jay Hind. She was one of the founding members of the Ghanta Awards and the Filmfail Awards, Two of the biggest parody award shows in India. She has featured in Ripping the Decade with Vir Das, Fools Gold Awards on Comedy Central India, and Bollywood OMG on Channel V.
Mittal was featured on BBC World and BBC America among “India’s trailblazers”, and appeared on BBC Asia with RJ Nihal. Her show has been described as “acerbic and cutting edge”. Her jokes cover everything from Osama bin Laden to sanitary napkins, toddlers to Miss India winners.
She says, “My brand of humour is personal. It’s observational.” She developed the character of Dr. (Mrs.) Lutchuke because she did not like the way sex was portrayed by the media. Mittal has spoken at India’s 1st Sex Exposition by India Today, WIFT India (Women in Film and Television), Indian School of business, Hyderabad and comedy festivals across the country.
Short biography of Aditi Mittal
Mittal is one of the better-known faces of the Indian English stand-up comedy scene in North and West India. In 2009, she was one of the first 5 Indians to be featured in an Indians-only stand-up show called Local Heroes, organized by the U.K based “The Comedy Store.”
Currently she is a regular at Canvas Laugh Factory, Comedy Store Mumbai and has performed at venues and humour festivals across the country, clubs in UK and at Laugh Factory, Los Angeles.
In 2013, Mittal was invited by the BBC for the prestigious 100 Women Conference in London. She first performed her solo show ‘Things they wouldn’t let me say’ in July 2013 at the Canvas Laugh Factory, Mumbai. The tour features an appearance by sex therapist Dr. Mrs. Lutchuke and the “thinking” Bollywood starlet Dolly Khurana.
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Random biography facts about Aditi Mittal
In October 2014, she was included again in the BBC’s 100 women.
In December 2014, Mittal featured as a part of the Roast panel on the AIB (All India Bakchod) Knockout.
In February, she appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show.
Mittal’s YouTube series Bad Girls showcases women activists. The first episode was, released in February 2017, which mainly focused on Nidhi Goyal.
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