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Anuvab Pal
Anuvab Pal is an Indian stand up comedian, screenwriter, playwright and novelist.

He co-wrote the 2007 cult hit Indian comedy, Loins Of Punjab Presents, with Manish Acharya which The New York Times called "A witty musical comedy". 

His play, The President Is Coming, was made into a Bollywood film by Bollywood producer Rohan Sippy, directed by actor Kunaal Roy Kapur. Noted critic, journalist and author Anupama Chopra reviewing it on her TV show on the Indian news channel NTDV said the film was "uncontrollably funny in most parts". It was also features on a BBC news story titled "Bollywood's farewell Bush handshake". The play The President Is Coming directed by Kunaal Roy Kapur opened at The Rage Theatre Writers Bloc Festival in 2007. The Hindu newspaper previewed it under the title "Beating Around The Bush".

 http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/theatre/beating-around-the-bush/article925607.ece http://wogma.com/movie/the-president-is-coming-teho/

As a stand up comedian, Anuvab Pal started out with The British Comedy Store when they opened in Mumbai in 2010 and has since toured across the nation with his acclaimed one man show, The Nation Wants To Know to sold out houses mostly in Mumbai but also New Delhi, Kolkata, Shillong, Bangalore, Pune.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-18/news-interviews/33925162_1_comedians-solo-show-operations-manager

3 of his plays have been published as novels. Chaos Theory (Picador India), 1 888 Dial India (Random House) and The President Is Coming (Random House).

http://www.amazon.com/Anuvab-Pal/e/B005B3IX1E

His first play Chaos Theory, a love story between two Indian professors, was written in New York City, and performed in various productions around the United States. Los Angeles Times, while writing about The Artwallah Festival, a South Asian cultural festival where the play was performed at in 2003, said 'Pal's characters are professional immigrants whose questions may not be so much about economic survival as intellectual and spiritual survival.' The play received its first professional production in New York City in 2010 starring TV and film actor Rita Wolf, directed by Alexa Kelly and produced by The Pulse Ensemble Theatre. The newyorktheatreguide.com review of the play by Martin Denton said the play is"a rich stew, like the Melting Pot that is its setting, and well worth experiencing." The India production of the play happened in 2008 and starred TV and theatre actor Zafar Karachiwala and TV, film and theatre actor Anahita Oberoi directed by theatre director Rahul Da Cunha and produced by his Rage Productions. Writing in the tabloid Mumbai Mirror, reviewer Pragya Tiwari said 'Pal’s play gives love due respect. But in the end it remains elusive, as it always will.'

Later, it was made into a novel and published by Picador India. The India Today magazine review of the novel by critic and writer Bunny Suraya called it "an intelligent person's Love Story, referring to Erich Segal's Love Story. There were many reviews across Indian publications. The Hindu review by journalist Sumana Mukherjee called it "A Bittersweet Romance".

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jun/26/news/wk-art26 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/bunny-suraiya-reviews-chaos-theory-by-anuvab-pal/1/247612.html http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/a-bittersweet-romance/article4679579.ece http://pragyatiwari.com/theatre/chaos-theory/ http://www.nytheatre.com/Review/martin-denton-2010-5-28-chaos-theory

In 2011, He was featured in The New York Times video, "A Night At The Comedy Club" and CNNGO, a travel website of CNN, mentioned him on a list of 20 Mumbai People To Watch. He was also interviewed in the BBC News segment titled "Having A Laugh In India" and was (along with comedian/presenter Cyrus Broacha) the only Indian comedian on the popular BBC radio show Just A Minute with Nicholas Parsons. That episode also featured famous British comedians Paul Merton and Marcus Bridgestocke.

http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/radio/just_a_minute/episodes/62/8/ http://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/100000001038853/a-night-at-the-comedy-club.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8419225.stm http://travel.cnn.com/mumbai/none/mumbai-hot-list-20-people-watch-920016

He contributes columns often to magazines like GQ, Time Out Mumbai, Vogue and Elle.

He lives in Mumbai with his wife, editor and novelist, Deepanjana Pal.