Vir Das feels that its high time we stopped the age-old trend of men dressing up as women to ‘make comedy’. He told IE:
“So whatever comedy we put forward it could be edgy, slapstick or urban, but it has to be Indian. I don’t know why we need men to wear women clothes to make comedy, we have some fantastic women comedians, just hire them! I would like to see that stopping. We need to stop putting a guy in a saree, it was fine in the times of Shakespeare when women were not allowed to perform.”
Vir Das is hard at work on his first web series, Hasmukh. He said:
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“Hasmukh is dark humour. It is at the end of the day, a one man story, a very violent funny man’s story. I had this idea for a comedian who is a serial killer, and I brought it to Nikhil. We have been developing some stuff about from three years ago. So I had the idea, and Netflix had happened, so I figured out that I need to do acting in digital space now. It is very very violent, but it is as funny as it is violent, that’s what I would say about Hasmukh. I will be continuing working in mainstream cinema as well. There are three films. The nice thing is everything is being shot so fast, and it is consumed so fast that you don’t have to compromise for one over the other.”
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