NEW DELHI :
The second season of One Mic Stand, a present the place celebrities from completely different walks of life carry out stand-up comedy for the primary time, will function producer-director Karan Johar, actor Sunny Leone, author Chetan Bhagat, journalist Faye Dsouza and singer-rapper Raftaar, Amazon Prime Video stated in a press release.
The final season had featured politician Shashi Tharoor, YouTube star Bhuvan Bam, singer and music composer Vishal Dadlani and main actors Richa Chadda and Taapsee Pannu.
Hosted by comic Sapan Verma, the present sees each movie star being assigned a slapstick comedian who will mentor himher to carry out the standup act. The upcoming season will function comedians like Abish Mathew, Atul Khatri, Samay Raina, Sumukhi Suresh and Neeti Palta who will mentor Chetan Bhagat, Faye D’Souza, Raftaar, Karan Johar and Sunny Leone respectively.
To make sure, Amazon believes comedy choices make for one of many most-watched genres on the platform. In 2019, the corporate had stated that the primary season of its expertise hunt present Comicstaan was among the many most-watched reveals on the platform and since its launch in July 2018, greater than 25% clients had began watching comedy on the platform.
Amazon has obtained constructive suggestions on stand-up specials like Kenny Sebastian’s Do not be that man and Zakir Khan’s Haq se Single, apart from Rahul Subramaniam’s Kal Essential Udega, and Sorabh Pant’s Make India Nice Once more.
The platform had confronted controversies earlier this 12 months for internet reveals like Tandav and Mirzapur 2. It additionally introduced a foray into movie manufacturing with Akshay Kumar-starrer Ram Setu. Increasing its slate throughout a number of Indian languages, it has launched Putham Pudhu Kaalai, a Tamil anthology of 5 brief movies with Rajiv Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratnam, and Karthik Subbaraj apart from buying a bunch of Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies in the course of the pandemic.
Supply: Live Mint