Vir Das faced a significant controversy in 2021 when his video, ‘I Come From Two Indias,’ received lots of hate from a bit of netizens. During an interesting conversation with Mayank Shekhar of Mid-Day, the actor-comedian opened up like never before on shocking changes in his life after this episode.
SHOCKING: Vir Das on how life modified after ‘Two Indias’ controversy: “My phone was off for 4 months. There was no work…I booked a flight to London and had no memory of it. I YELLED within the plane…”
Vir explained why he shifted to Goa and why he decided to return to Mumbai, “You may’t write stand-up in Goa. For that, that you must know the heart beat of the audience. In Goa, it looks as if the day is 37 hours long! Time slows down. What I like about Goans is that everyone, who shows up from the surface, is running from something (smiles). They try to take care of something in life and hence, they’ve come and settled in Goa. Goans are non-judgmental about it. They’ve seen people in all styles of tragedies. But then I noticed it was time to stop running and are available back.”
When asked what he was running away from, Vir replied, “Dude, I had no work for a yr and a half after the ‘Two Indias’ controversy. My phone wasn’t ringing. I believed I’d reasonably be in Goa, work on myself and write.”
Vir Das explained, “There have been zero phone calls. If it did ring, it wasn’t a comfortable phone call (laughing). It could be like someone shouting, ‘Kahan hai tu? Tujhe dhund lunga essential’. After that, my phone was off for 4 months. There was no work. Then, I worked on Vir Das: Landing. It jumpstarted every thing.” The Netflix special won the Emmy Awards and gave an enormous boost to Vir Das’ profession.
Vir Das then shared one other horrifying story which happened after the ‘Two Indias’ controversy, “I woke up on a flight that I believed was from Singapore to Mumbai, but it surely was London-bound. I had put up a last-minute show in London; we had sold a thousand tickets. I personally modified the flight, bought my ticket and checked myself in. After which I woke up on the flight and for 2 hours, I had no idea how I got on that flight. It was my 186th show that yr.”
Vir added, “I used to be told that the flight was heading to London. I yelled, ‘No, this flight is to Mumbai’. When a brown man with a beard starts yelling a couple of recent destination for the plane, everybody knows that the situation must be handled (laughs)! But for the lifetime of me, I couldn’t figure it out for 2 hours. And you possibly can’t feel bad for being disoriented within the firstclass (laughs).”
He further said, “I needed to go to my therapist and explained her that I even have blocked out 72 hours. She told me, ‘You’ve been on the road for way too long’. This was within the post ‘Two Indias’ phase where (performing in) India wasn’t an option. That’s how I ended up doing 186 shows abroad.”
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