Utsav Chakraborty

Some Lesser Known Facts About Utsav Chakraborty

• Utsav was four years old when he saw a billboard for the film titled “The Mask” while travelling to a family friend’s house. Then at the age of seven, he saw the film, The Mask. This film led to his interest in comedy.

• Utsav is a big fan of superheroes and loves to collect action figurines. He even shares them on his Instagram.

  

• Utsav has been an active member of the Indian comedy scene since 2010.

  

• Utsav achieved his first online popularity with a parody Twitter account of Chetan Bhagat named @SatanBhagat which he used to operate and post troll tweets on Chetan Bhagat in 2012.

• Before joining All India Backchod (A.I.B.) as a writer, Utsav worked for the HuffPost as their India’s Trends Editor for almost 3 months in 2015.

• In addition to writing skits for AIB, Utsav has also worked as an actor for AIB.

• From 2016 to 2018, Utsav has acted in multiple skits and brand collaboration content.

• Utsav has been part of a mockumentary titled “Better Life Foundation,” white fellow comics like Kanan Gill, Kumar Varun, Kaneez Surka, Naveen Richard, and many others.

• In the early 2017, Utasav worked as a writer for Abish Mathew’s show Son of Abish.

  

• In the same year. Utsav was also part of a reality TV Show called Queens Vs Kings on TLC.

  

• Ustav has acted in the spin-off of an American hidden camera comedy show, Impractical Jokers called Challenge Accepted.

• Utsav as worked as a host for a VICE’s YouTube segment about Indian Men’s Rights Activists.

• Utsav’s style of comedy revolves around the usage of dark humour and is Anecdotal in nature.

• Utsav fell off the charts after his controversy with the #metoo movement.

• After a year of the #metoo controversy, in November 2019 a YouTube channel named “EXPOSE MAHIMA” uploaded 2 audio clips were uploaded. One being roughly six minutes long while the other being approximately 42 minutes long. The clips appeared to be of the conversation between Utsav and Mahima Kukreja’s sister, Mansi Kukreja who was also her legal advisor in the case.

• In the audio recordings, Mahima and Mansi threaten Utsav with legal action if he “leaks certain screenshots” that could contradict parts of the charges.

• Utsav also turned to Twitter to share a string of tweets in which a couple of the women who had accused him admitted that the charges were false; some of them also apologised to him. He also proved the charges that he harassed a minor were false in the same Twitter threads.

• In the tweets Utsav claimed that all of the previous charges were untrue, claiming that the Instagram discussions had been released without the supposed victim’s permission and that one-half of the conversation in which she consented had been deleted. This has been confirmed by the accuser, who later apologised to Utsav and deleted her account. Utsav also claimed, referring to screenshots, that the girl claiming to be ‘much younger’ than him was only a year younger, at 26 years old, and that he never harassed her.