Month After 'Goodbye' Tweet, Comedian Munawar Faruqui Performs In Mumbai. Announces 2 New Shows In Jan

Faruqui performed in Mumbai on Sunday at the Y B Chavan Centre. The event was organised by the All India Professionals’ Congress. 

Stand up comedian Munawar Faruqui | Photo: Instagram/@munawar.faruqui

New Delhi: Standup comedian Munawar Faruqui announced two new shows scheduled for January 7 and January 16, 2022 at Pune and Kolkata respectively.

The comedian announced these two upcoming shows “Dhandho” on his Instagram page after he had dejectedly announced quitting comedy on November 28 following cancellation of 12 of his shows in two months. 

After facing controversies and cancellation of shows, Faruqui performed in Mumbai on Sunday at the Y B Chavan Centre. The event was organised by the Maharashtra unit of the All India Professionals’ Congress. 

“We facilitated #MunawarFaruqui’s performance in Mumbai yesterday. Artists should have creative freedom as long as they abide by the constitution & respect all faiths. We may disagree with someone’s content but using force to impose our opinion on others is unconstitutional,” the AIPC had tweeted. 

We facilitated #MunawarFaruqui’s performance in Mumbai yesterday.

Artists should have creative freedom as long as they abide by the constitution & respect all faiths.

We may disagree with someone’s content but using force to impose our opinion on others is unconstitutional. https://t.co/gx4rP7naUE pic.twitter.com/sz2vd36AUE

— AIPC - Maharashtra (@AIPCMaha) December 19, 2021

Recently he was dropped from a show in Gurugram after Arun Singh, IT Department Head of Haryana BJP lodged a complaint against the comedian. 

Last month the Bengaluru police did not allow Munawar Faruqui to do standup comedy shows due to protests by some Hindu outfits. He was accused of hurting Hindu religious sentiments in one of his shows, a claim which Munawar firmly denied.   

Earlier this year on January 1, Munawar Faruqui along with five other stand up comedians were arrested in Indore for allegedly making indecent comments against Hindu gods and Union Home Minister Amit Shah 

The arrested comedians included Munawar Faruqui, Edvin Anthony, Prakhar Vyas, Priyam Vyas and Nalin Yadav.

Faruqui was released from Indore Central jail on February 7 after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail