I am the co-founder of an Ahmedabad based all-woman stand up comedy collective called Mahila Manch. With my business partner Shefali Pandey we started monthly comedy shows called the Period Show (because we do it once a month) at a friend's house.
Today we have over 500 people coming for each of our gigs which have had themes including - women and sexual pleasure, body shaming, question of caste, the me too story , a show called Bevda Gujarat saw over 700 people turn up as we had women bootleggers do stand up comedy with us, our Maa- Bahein show was a mix of songs and stand up and we took on media and sexism in the show as young actors from the Gujarati film fraternity joined us, our show called Tu 13 Dekh was around the globalization of polarization in which we have performers belong to the Dalit community talking about the pains of manual scavenging and our show Ek Thi Rani was about how stories of women queens never make it to the mainstream narrative.
Mahila Manch is about 2 and a half year old and we have had the honor of performing at One Billion Rising event in Delhi , the Gujarat Literature Festival , Sanatkada Festival in Lucknow , Matrubhumi International Festival of Letters - to name a few . Other than this we conduct a host of workshops, talks and perform at private gigs.
Our content is what many people say bold and we are now happy with making people a bit uncomfortable with our hard-hitting content.
We make sure that humor is the spine of all our shows and we do not deviate from it .
Kindly find the links to a few articles about us.
https://thewire.in/women/how-women-comics-in-ahmedabad-are-using-humour-to-talk-about-real-issues
https://scroll.in/magazine/922408/an-all-women-stand-up-collective-in-ahmedabad-is-pushing-boundaries-with-their-gentle-satire
https://cms.ati.ms/2018/04/indian-female-comics-tackle-social-issues-humor/
https://www.womensweb.in/2018/09/6-female-upcoming-stand-up-comedians-from-india-sept18wk2mc/
https://www.meranews.in/news/view/smashing-patriarchy-and-sexism-not-with-sticks-and-stone-but-with-gags-and-jokes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtReuWxd-LY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8aYuoB7N0U
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