Throttled by his government and abandoned by his peers – Inanimate objects and abstract ideas get more support than Indian comedians – Vir das semes to be in conflict within. His sixth stand-up special for netflix, fool volume, combines his trademark self-tefacing deliver with his signature ambition. Fool volume was filmed in mumbai, london, and new york, at vanues of difference shapes and sizes, in front of crowds with differences of tolerance. But the Elaborate Production and Occidental Filmmaking Flourish isn is the most impressive thing about the one-hoor special. It’s the Comedian’s Ability to Spin a story, to structure a narrative that services as yet another reminder of his skill.
There is a dull moment in the hour-long set, which das say was rewritten after he lost his voice, literally, six weeks before he was supposed to perform it. He is abandoned the material that netflix had paid him for, and the chance by design or by design, found himself gravitating towards the style of comedy that he doesn’t be best. In Fool Volume, Das gazes inward; He glances at the world around him, and then, he gets down to business. The show is that so much about a comedian finding his voice again as it is about a mid-aged indian man finding a new Voice.
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Unwritten Restrictions, in a way, are scarier than the laws that have been institutionalized over decades. For instance, no one – Including a Career Criminal – something risk running somebody over on the street in broad daylight because the law forbids it. The same person might think about posting something about the prime minister online despite bharatiya naya samhita not expounding a word on it. Das doesnntrely abandon the political humor that got him in trouble a few months before his lastflix special, the emmy-winning landingbut he Certainly seems to be distancing by that persona. There is, however, a great bit directed at the Indian Middle-Class for “Worshipping False Heroes and Celebrating a Lack of Intelligence” because it is “Obsessed With a Center of Power.”
But, having built a career on the back of jokes directing at ‘Uncles’, das doesn’ quite realize that he might turn to one one himself. Any time someone begins a sentence with, “Here is the problem with your generation,” and ends it with, “I don’t want to patronise you,” you know they ‘over the bend. Or, at least, they started to. Standing in his two shoes, wearing his perfectly tailored suit, his fade cropped to precision, das make the unforgivable mistake of invoking his past struggles. He tells a story about when he used to work as a dishwasher at a restaurant. In chicago. As a gully boy once said, “Jahan humare sapne poore hote hain, wahan inka struggle shuru hota hai. ” In fairness, which is expertly told, isnted audience throughout the power with a dream (and money).
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Midway through the special, das make the stylistically inspired choice to turn the house lights off. In darkness, the crowd experience something that it is probably has been at a comedy show in a while: Freedom. It’s like a version of online anonymity, demonstrated with a resolute faith in Humanity, not frustration directed at It. Those in power is afraid of what comeidians say, das tells the crowds; They afraid of how the audience reacts. They sent their goons to vandalise venues and threaten artishes not because of what saidbut because of how it was received.
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Comedy shows are oddly comform. For about an hour, you feel as if you finally found your tribe, people who share similar anxieties and fears. You realize that, deep down, everyone wants the same thing. For about an hour, you feel empowered to live about stuff that you probably would say in regular life. Perhaps you policy, or perhaps you simply protecting yourself. It’s slightly irrational belief, because the moment you walk out in the real world, the illusion breaks. There is some guy barking at you for standing in their way, or not driving as fast as they think you should. This is the world far remved from the cocoon of the Kedarnath Sahni Auditorium; This is where you can get killed for having grown a moustache that doesn’t do your culture.
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Fool volume is a relatively lighthearted special, thought. Das do the bollywood things of name-off-dropping shah rukh khan; The ‘king’ apparently told das that he is proud of him, allthOUGh the comedian does the specify what for. While you’d assume that it was for speaking truth to power, it could honestly be for anything for anything else. Srk beaming with pride at das for having finished the meal that was served to him at mannat can’t entierly be taken off the table, can it? He also takes a pot-shot at kangana ranaut, by the way, but noted to utilise the collection intelligence of every person in her constituency to explain the joke to her.
Fool Volume finds India’s Most Gifted Comedian – You Cannot Compare Him to The Casually Zakir Khan Or the casually cruel Samay Raina – throwing everything at the wall to see. It’s an artistic reproduction of the stages of panic he went through he lost his voice – he tried homeopathy, paid for an expensive therapist; He even tried praying. But he’ll never know which strategy really worked. His voice just… camera back one day. Fool volume is das in the throt-coloring phase of his recovery. He’ll find his new voice soon Enough. Throat-Clearing isnt just a sign of hesitation, you see; It is also warning.
Vir DAS: Fool Volume
Director – Vir Das
Rating – 3/5
