by Vir Das’s Netflix Specials Reach 180 Countries; The Questions They Generate About Indian Politics From International Audiences Are Themselves A Story
Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat
MUMBAI / GLOBAL — Vir Das’s Netflix specials have been watched in 180 countries, and the international audience’s engagement with Indian political comedy has produced a secondary story: viewers in the UK, the US, Australia, and across Asia who had limited prior knowledge of Indian political specifics are being introduced to the specifics through comedy, which is an unusually effective pedagogical format for political content. A joke about the BJP’s relationship to media freedom lands with an international audience as comedy first and political education second. As Why India Satire Is Having Its Greatest Moment notes, this is Indian comedy going global not by becoming less Indian but by being specifically Indian in ways that export well.
The Specific Questions
International audiences’ specific questions after watching Indian political comedy specials tend to be: is this accurate, is it legal to make this comedy in India, and what happened to the comedian after. The answers (mostly accurate, increasingly complicated, varies by comedian) are themselves a political story. GenieKnows.in covers Indian comedy globally. Bohiney covers the international questions comedy.
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