Munawar Faruqui Wiki, Height, Age, Family, Biography & More

Munawar Faruqui is an Indian stand-up comedian and writer, famous for his controversial remarks on religion and Indian politics, which often lands him in trouble.

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Wiki/Biography

Munawar Faruqui was born on Tuesday, 28 January 1992 (age 28 years; as of 2020) in Junagadh, Gujarat. His full name is Munawar Iqbal Faruqui. ^[1]YouTube He is well versed in graphic design and art direction.

Physical Appearance

Height (approx.): 5′ 7″

Hair Colour: Black

Eye Colour: Dark Brown

Family & Caste

Munawar was born in Junagadh in a Muslim family.

Parents & Siblings

He has one sister, Shabana. Not much information is available about his family.

Career

Munawar is a Mumbai based stand-up comedian. His content is mostly political in nature, and he is usually seen criticizing the Narendra Modi Government. Here is a video of him talking about NRC (National Register of Citizens) and the Delhi riots caused by it.

Faruqui is a really popular stand-up comic and he toured almost all over India with his stand-up special “Dongri To Nowhere.”

He is also a singer and rapper. Munawar released his debut rap song ‘Jawab’ during the COVID-19 lockdown.

His videos, combined have more than 23 million views. Faruqui has around 535K subscribers on his YouTube channel.

Awards, Honours, Achievements

Winner (2018): Comic Kaun 4.0 by Pizza Burst

Winner (2018): Open Mic at the Synergy Fest

Controversies

In April 2020, Munawar landed into a controversy after his YouTube video went viral where he was seen making fun of Hindu deities Ram and Sita and the 2002 Godhra massacre where reportedly. In the video, he referred to the massacre as a fictional film, directed by Amit Shah and produced by the RSS. A complaint was filed against him with the Mumbai police by Hindutva activist and former Shiv Sena member, Ramesh Solanki.

Filed online complaint with @MumbaiPolice against hate monger @FaruquiMunawar
I request Mumbai Police to file FIR n take strict against Munavar for mocking Sri Ram and Sita Maata@CyberDost @MahaCyber1 @ippatel @TajinderBagga @Aabhas24 @ShefVaidya @AskAnshul @MODIfiedVikas @ pic.twitter.com/52O8AkJP4R

— Ramesh Solanki (@Rajput_Ramesh) April 14, 2020

He faced a serious backlash on Twitter as thousands of netizens flooded Twitter with the hashtag that read “#ArrestMunawarFaruqui.” He later apologised for unintentionally hurting the religious sentiments of people.

You call this stand up comedy @FaruquiMunawar ? Can you make fun and use such words about other religion and God including your own ? You are disgusting. @MumbaiPolice needs to take action against this nonsense. @Dev_Fadnavis @DevangVDave @Rajput_Ramesh pic.twitter.com/mq6FGL3pUY

— Punit Agarwal (@Punitspeaks) April 15, 2020

On 1 January 2020, Munawar, along with four other comedians was arrested during his show in Indore for allegedly passing indecent remarks against Hindu deities and mocking Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The complaint was filed by Eklavya Singh Gaur, the chief of Hindutva group Hind Rakshak Sangathanson and son of local BJP MLA Malini Singh Gaur. While talking to reporters, Gaur said,

When I heard about Munawar’s show, I bought a ticket and went to see it. As expected, he was insulting Hindu deities and also mocked Home Minister Amit Shah by dragging his name with Godhra riots. Such objectionable talks were going on during the comedy show. We made a video of them and stopped the show by taking the audience out of the cafe. Then we caught the comedians and organisers of the show and took them to Tukoganj police station.”

After a couple of days, a video went viral of an altercation between Gaur and Munawar, where Gaur was seen accusing Munawar of hurting religious sentiments of Hindus by making jokes on Hindu Gods while Munawar was calmy trying to explain that no such thing was happening.
Later, Kamlesh Sharma, the Inspector of Tukaganj Police station told The Indian Express that there was no video evidence to back the allegations of him insulting Hindu deities or Union Minister Amit Shah. Many prominent comedians, including Varun Grover, Vir Das and Rohan Joshi, came up in Munawar’s support and criticised his arrest.

You can’t stop jokes and laughter. Not because comedians are performing it, but because people need to laugh. Harder you try, the more you’re going to be laughed at, now, and by history.

Anyone who has ever tried to control humour, now has a category of jokes devoted to them.

— Vir Das (@thevirdas) January 3, 2021