Khyali Saharan

Some Lesser Known Facts About Khyali Saharan

• Khyali Saharan is an Indian comedian and politician, who is associated with the Aam Aadmi Party. He rose to fame after participating in the reality TV stand-up comedy series The Great Indian Laughter Challenge Season 2 (2006). The show aired on STAR One.

• He grew up in a middle-class Chaudhary family in 18 SPD Badopal village, Hanumangarh, Rajasthan.

• Khyali was good at co-curricular activities in his school days.

• Not so good at studies in childhood, Saharan failed thrice in class 10 and decided to quit his studies.

• Subsequently, he moved to Sri Ganganagar, where he started working as a guard at a swimming pool. He worked there for around 6 months and later began working at JCT Mills in Sri Ganganagar.

• While working in the mill, Khyali met with an accident and his right hand was sucked inside a die-cutting machine. Following the accident, he was admitted to a hospital and took 13 months to recover from his injuries. After the recovery, Saharan resumed his job and worked there for almost 5 years. In the meantime, he also started selling tickets outside Ganesh Cinema in Sri Ganganagar.

• He then joined a theatre group with whom he did his first play ‘Poster.’

• Initially, he performed with the group in Sri Ganganagar and later started performing in other cities as well like Jaipur and Bikaner.

• Soon, he bagged an opportunity to attend an acting workshop in Chandigarh after which he decided to relocate there.

• In Chandigarh, Khyali started working as an anchor at stage shows. His style of anchoring and comedy skills grabbed the attention of various event organisers who offered him to anchor the stage shows of various renowned singers like Gurdas Maan, Jazzy B, Hans Raj Hans, Mika Singh, and Daler Mehndi. He used to get paid around Rs. 2000 to Rs. 2500 for a show.

  

• After working as an anchor for around 5 years, Khyali Saharan gave an audition for the reality TV stand-up comedy show The Great Indian Challenge Season 2 (aired on STAR One) in December 2005 and got selected; He was the only contestant from northern India to compete in the show. The show was won by Rauf Lala, and Khyali Saharan became the second runner-up of the show.

• Impressed with his comic skills in the show, the makers of the Bollywood film ‘Journey Bombay to Goa: Laughter Unlimited’ (2007) offered him a role in the film.

• Subsequently, he appeared in various Hindi films including Singh is King (2008), Meri Padosan (2009), Muskurake Dekh Zara (2010), Bhavnao Ko Samjho (2010), and Marudhar Mharo Ghar (2014).

• He has also played comic roles in many Punjabi films like Mukhtiar Chadha (2015), JATT vs IELTS (2018), Ult Pult (2020), and Kulche Chole (2022).

  

• Khyali Saharan has participated in more than 16 reality TV comedy shows like Comedy Circus (aired on Sony channel), Mazak Mazak Mein (aired on Life Ok), MAD in India (aired on Star Plus), and SAB TV Jokes.

  

• In 2018, he appeared as a guest performer in the Sony Entertainment Television reality TV comedy show The Kapil Sharma Show.

  

• Saharan was also featured in the advertisement for Jio 11.

 

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• He owns a YouTube channel named Khyali Comedy, which was created on 8 August 2020. Khyali uploads his comedy videos on the channel and is popular for playing the role of Roop Nath in most of his videos. The channel has around 389k subscribers on it.

  

• In April 2022, he joined the Aam Aadmi Party and was subsequently made the divisional in-charge of AAP Bikaner.

  

• An active philanthropist, Khayali Saharan established Oasis Sainik School in his village 18 SPD Badopal, Hanumangarh, Rajasthan in 2011. The school aims to prepare boys academically, physically and mentally for entry into the National Defense Academy. Khyali is one of the trustees of the school. He has organised several free camps for physically disabled persons at the school.

  

• In his spare time, he loves to travel and do horse riding.

• Khyali has been honoured with several awards for his comic skills.

  

• A pet lover, Khyali has a pet monkey named Bajrangi.

  

• Khyali Saharan is spotted consuming alcohol at various parties and events. ^[5]Hindustan Times

• He has made a record of doing stand-up comedy consecutively for two hours.

• In an interview, Khyali revealed that before participating in the reality TV stand-up comedy show ‘The Great Indian Laughter Challenge Season 2,’ he used to earn Rs. 1500 for a show. However, after the release of the first episode of the show, he was booked for a show at Rs. 1 lakh 35 thousand.