Here's what went down in the curtain raiser episode.
Let the grandeur do the talking instead of the gags, says Raja Sen.
It's all bad. All of it, every last instant, every single word, rants Raja Sen in his review of Humshakals.
No-Punchline humour reminds us how in our daily lives, we all are by turns 'The Corrupt Politician we criticise,' 'The Chauvinist Male we frown upon,' 'The Rule Breaker we deride through our Facebook posts,' 'The Communal Virus we so easily lampoon' and 'The Bad Artist we spoof.' In a land where the aforesaid prototypes are our major sources of 'funny,' is there an audience for the NPL kind of humour, asks Sreehari Nair.