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![]() “He says, ‘I myself haven’t returned home for fourteen years.” Then comes the punchline: “Ramji don’t give a f-ck about your beloved.” The audience erupts. “O Lord, my beloved, has come home,” Faruqui starts, dropping lyrics from an enormously popular Bollywood song in which a woman celebrates the return of her lover. It referenced Rama, a widely worshipped Hindu deity, and his wife Sita. The intruder was referring not to a joke Faruqui had just made, but one that he’d uploaded on YouTube in April 2020. One of the men forced his way onto the stage and accused the stand-up, who is Muslim, of hurting Hindu sentiments. 1, when a group of Hindu nationalists walked into the café in Indore, a city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, where Faruqui was to perform, clad in jeans and trendy white sneakers. “His dreams were coming true,” a close family member, who asked not to be named, told me.Įverything changed on the evening of Jan. And in the spring, he was to perform his first international show in Dubai. ![]() His YouTube channel had crossed 500,000 subscribers. The 29-year-old stand-up comic from Mumbai was set to complete his first tour of India. It was going to be the best year of Munawar Iqbal Faruqui’s life. ![]()
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