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In Tathastu, Zakir Khan offers a masterclass in winning over his audience
FirstpostThere is perhaps no other Indian comedian working right now as polarizing as Zakir Khan. It’s this precise quality that Khan successfully brings to Tathastu, his first comedy special since 2018’s middling Haq Se Single. By that logic, I’d argue that the confessional nature of Tathastu — Khan’s bildungsroman of sorts — doesn’t exactly make it a “comedy special.” Yet you’d be hard pressed to find another Indian comedy special this year that truly does justice to comedy as a performing art. Khan divides his set into three chapters, meant to reflect the three most formative periods of his own life — his modest childhood living in a joint family in Indore; leaving the comfort of home in his early 20s in the hope that he’d make a name for himself; and lastly, the period of his life when he got discovered as a comedian and fame finally came knocking at his door. Even parts that I personally found clichéd, like Khan’s Baghban-esque language of emotional manipulation, worked simply because of how genuine the comedian sounds while saying it.
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