Rivaldo... you have catched our pulse!!

Today there was a comedy show of Nitin Gupta(Rivaldo)- one of the India's best stand-up comedian and founder of Entertainment engineers, at IIT -Kharagpur. As many of you don't know about him much, so I am writing this blog. So lets start from his past;

How he choose to became a stand-up comedian?
While in final year of his chemical engineering at IIT -Bombay, he never wanted to get the daily routine job and to make his talent to certain bounds, still he took a job only to show his parents that he can get one if he want to. As most of the parents send their child in IITs to get them a better job and a better life, a secure future -the common middle class dream. He even taught for some time in coaching institute and write some scripts for daily soaps which were all flops before starting his our company.

In September 2009 while enjoying in Rendezvous, the cultural festival of IIT Delhi, Rivaldo made a performance of 20 minutes in the interval between the plays. Audience liked it and in October 2009,Engineers Entertainment was formalized. He made his first appearance in IITKgp with the help of his friend and played Love in December. Second show was in MNIT Jaipur and they did the same play. Gradually he presented the audience with a mixture of Love in December and stand-ups and in the first year he managed to get 13-14 shows. It was the play that got him popularity but soon he established himself as a stand-up comedian in the college circles.

In September 2009 while enjoying in Rendezvous, the cultural festival of IIT Delhi, Rivaldo made a performance of 20 minutes in the interval between the plays. Audience liked it and in October 2009,Engineers Entertainment was formalized.

EE was born with the vision of making Stand Up Comedy respectable in India. We believe one way to do it is when you talk ideas in your Stand Up. Comedy without ideas is like Fast Food. It’s tasty but lacking in Nutrition (food for thought) The problem with comedy is that it’s so easy to carried away by laughs. But that’s where the catch comes. The overall impact of the performance is not just a function of your laugh density. It’s also a function of how much people remember after a performance. Because people like to talk after a show. In my experience people tend to remember things which touch them at some level. Like with all the memories. You are more likely to remember a conversation you had with a girl you were in love with viz a viz a conversation with very interesting person from college. Getting laughs is the easier part. Capturing that emotionality in the humor is the difficult part, he said.

He always says, in college the motivation behind humor is girls, after graduation it was survival. We did a play called Love in December. Which was famous in college campuses. Had a student from IIT Kharagpur who was interested in doing plays there. We became friends, used to discuss scripts. It was him who helped organize a show in IIT Kharagpur on Oct 31, 2009 as a part of their Spring Fest. That was our first show outside our home campus IIT Bombay.

Enough about his past.

His videos  2G CWG and Soniaji, IAS durga, Coal Mates, Ted talk have been hugely appreciated by audience. now the question remains, even after so much success, why his audience is not that much as he deserve to be? The simple reason is- to understand his jokes and punches, you have to need certain level of knowledge. Most of the situations in our day to day life, he relates to science theories.

Best part about his show is- "courage". Courage to speak on the issues which everyone of us felt at some point, but due to social taboos, we could not speak  them in public. I really appreciate his courage to speak the topics like Gandhis', Hindu mythology, sex on a national platform. Why I am telling about courage is because we are living in so much sensitive country that we got offended by small small things.

His comedy has it's main focus on anomalies in our day-to-day life, political scenario, AD commercials, cricket, racism. Many things we do daily that we could not able to give reasons to them if asked. And that's where his comedy born.

I had watched all of his shows and videos, but what I surprisingly found is none the jokes in his previous performances has been repeated. and that's the beauty of his performance. You never get bored for a single minute in whole performance. Another good quality about him is his memory. In one joke, he was telling about how falsely we say that I proud to be Indian and told nonstop 30-40 foreign brands we use in our day to day life. He put it in such a way that, it was raining of claps before he even finishes the joke.

Another good think is- he made us to think about the issues with humor. Today's show was the best comedy show many of us has ever seen. Watch his show to laugh , to increase your blood circulation(as you will be clapping all the time), to increase our intellect, to get completely out of the world feeling for 2 hours and at last - to think about the things he wanted to convey.
Peace.
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Referances:
http://www.humorbeings.in/
http://www.uthtime.in/entertain-me/nitin-gupta-rivaldo/attachment/iim-bangalore
http://yourstory.com/2011/05/y-so-serious-a-humour-filled-conversation-over-coffee-with-nitin-gupta-rivaldo-founder-of-entertainment-engineers/

~Digvijay Sanjay Patil