Humour in India is like sex. People love to do it, try it, don't know if it was great but feel like it was, when you know that someone else is doing good then you say 'huh I can do better'. Only few people appreciate, actually only those who knows the where, when and what to do.
Earlier humour was in the form of word of mouth jokes, and then came SMS jokes and now well there is still whatsapp jokes. Apart from those comic strips, few stand ups, few serials and movies were there but the time has changed now and so has the media. Thanks to internet, there is a whole new platform for the creator of humour to present upon. The best part is that they don't have to restrict themselves in terms of creativity like in case of serials and movies.
With the likes of Faking news, All India Bakchod (AIB), The Viral Fever (TVF), etc. humour has taken a leap. It has reached to much larger audience. Some appreciate it and some dislikes it. But in case of disliking the satire and humour I met people of two categories. One who believed that the things could have been done in a better way and then there were those who simply discarded the humour.
The argument started on one of the AIB's video which is a jingle of ‘Classic Indian Ads. They said there is nothing classy about it and the song is quite irritating.
I asked them why is that you didn't like it? I mean it takes a lot of effort to make one. The answer came, 'There is nothing new to it. I could do it any time of the day'.
I requested them to do it. The answer came; I don't do such degrading things.
I insisted like a child but no. All the people of this category whom I totally discarded the satire and its humour by citing the reason that it is against the culture, it is corrupting the youth and making their minds dirty. The most shocking was that AIB's "It's My Fault" was degrading towards women for them.
It made me think that the humour spread has taken a leap but not the humour overall. I would have accepted them as rare kind if there have been few but there were more than ten.
After this experience I believe that there is still a need for the humour to take a leap and it would be better if we hire Neil Armstrong for that. We are still not ready to accept many things in humour specially sex, religion and politics. People even say don’t touch those topics to be on a safer side. Making a satire is not betting on share market.
It is done to point out society’s flaws in a comic or rather entertaining manner. It takes lot of effort to make a satire or create a humour. Dislike it as audience not as an apple’s engineer.
