Kanan Gill

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Kanan Gill
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Kanan Gill in May 2019
Born (1989-12-24) 24 December 1989 (age 34)
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater MSRIT (B.E.)
Occupation(s) Stand-up comedian
Actor
YouTuber
Years active2013 – present
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)

Kanan Singh Gill is an Indian stand-up comedian, actor and YouTuber. He won the Punch Line Bangalore Competition. He is known for the YouTube series Pretentious Movie Reviews [1] where he reviews campy Bollywood films along with fellow stand-up comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath. He was one of the main personalities behind the YouTube Comedy Hunt and also co-hosted the YouTube FanFest India. In 2017, he released his own one-hour comedy special, Keep It Real on Amazon Prime Video . [2] He made his debut on the big screen with the movie Noor, alongside Sonakshi Sinha. In 2018, he was also a judge on Comicstaan, a comedic reality TV show, on Amazon Prime Video. He released his new special Is this it? on YouTube in 2024. [3]

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Early life

Kanan was born in Bareilly to a Sikh family and spent his early years in Dehradun and Delhi. His father Charanjit Singh Gill, an officer with the Indian Army was also the principal of Rashtriya Military School, Bangalore. At an early age he was brought to Bengaluru. He did his schooling at Ahlcon Public School, New Delhi and The Frank Anthony Public School, Bengaluru. [4] He pursued a B.E. degree in Computer Science at MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology. He was a part of a band where he later became the lead singer when he started writing "funny songs".

Career

Kanan worked as a software engineer at Exeter Group Inc., for three years. [5] In the meantime, he participated in and won a competition called Punchline Bangalore followed by another win at the Comedy Store in Mumbai. He then quit his job to pursue a career in comedy.

He gained popularity with the viral YouTube series Pretentious Movie Reviews. He reviewed critically panned popular Hindi movies along with Biswa Kalyan Rath. Kanan also worked in an improvised sketch comedy show, The Living Room on Comedy Central. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] Gill made his acting debut in Sunhil Sippy's Noor in 2017, alongside Sonakshi Sinha. [16] The same year, Gill launched his special Keep It Real on the Amazon Prime Video. [17] In 2020, his special 'Yours Sincerely' was released on Netflix.

Kanan also features sporadically on projects created by his friends and colleagues, notably on Better Life Foundation, [18] a web series by Them Boxer Shorts, as well as on many other sketches, videos, and podcasts created or hosted by fellow comedians.

In 2023, he also starred in the Norwegian romantic comedy called Christmas as usual alongside Ida Ursin-Holm.

On 18 January 2024, HarperCollins released Acts of God, Gill's debut novel. [19] It is a comedy-science fiction story based on a short story that he wrote in 2016-17. It is inspired by the works of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Neil Gaiman.

Filmography

Film

YearFilmRoleNotesRef
2017 Noor Saad Sehgal [20]
2023 Aachar & Co —Co-writer [21]
Christmas As Usual Jashan Joshi

Web

YearPlatformNameNotes
2017 Amazon Video Keep It Real [22] [23]
2016 - 2019 YouTube Better Life Foundation [24] Produced by Them Boxer Shorts
Released by All India Bakchod. [25]
2014 – presentYouTubePretentious Movie Reviews
I Can Do That [26]
How Insensitive
2014 - 2017YouTubeSon of Abish [27] Season 1
Season 2 with Biswa Kalyan Rath
Season 3 with Sonakshi Sinha
2018Amazon VideoThe Improvisers: Something From Nothing [28] Alongside Kenny Sebastian, Abish Mathew, Kaneez Surka
Comicstaan - Season 1 [29] Himself - Judge [30]
2019Amazon VideoSketchy Behaviour
Amazon VideoComicstaan: Season 2Judge
2020 Netflix Yours Sincerely, Kanan Gill [31]
2023Paytm InsiderIs This It?Limited Edition show [32] [33]

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