Urvi Majumdar challenges the misperception of India as just cricket and curry

Urvi Majumdar moved to Australia from Calcutta when she was six. She is now a full-time stand-up comedian, actor and screenwriter. We listen to some of her jokes, including one about why she hated eating fruits when she was growing up. She talks to Aditya about changing her name, struggling with adjusting in Australia as a shy kid with an Indian accent, seeing the positive side of her dad’s obsession with keeping track of expenses and much more.

When you are younger you think you will have this whole new identity. I used to be really excited about the concept of running away from home when I was young, it is kind of sad there is no concept of running away when you are older.

Urvi Majumdar

Urvi has performed at the Melbourne Writers Festival, Fringe Festival, Emerging Writers Festival and Adelaide Fringe Festival. She's toured nationally with solo shows 'Urvi Went to an All Girls School' and 'BURNT'. Urvi was a writer for The Project and The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, has appeared on ABC's Fisk and on SBS' Celebrity Letters and Numbers.

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Comedy Karma is created by Aditya Gautam

Additional Editing by Tarun Tyagi

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