From battling Covid-19 to interviewing Shah Rukh Khan – 5 things to know about BB Ki Vines host Bhuvan Bam, India’s hottest celebrity YouTuber

Dec 22 , 2020

Comedian Bhuvan Bam is one of India’s most successful YouTubers. Photo: @bhuvan.bam22/Instagram

Kashmir satire made his name in Pakistan, then Bam started parodying his family like fellow Indian YouTube star Lilly Singh, interviewing celebrities like Johnny Sins and Bollywood legend Shah Rukh Khan, and channelling his uncle in the Titu Talks skit series

With the meteoric success of his YouTube comedy channel BB Ki Vines, comedian Bhuvan Bam has steadily risen to fame since his first viral video in 2015 (more on that later). In 2018, he became India’s first YouTuber to reach 10 million subscribers, and with 19.8 million subscribers to date, it’s safe to say that fans aren’t tired yet of this 26-year-old entertainment sensation just yet. Here are five things to know about India’s hottest celebrity YouTuber, Bhuvan Bam.

He went viral in Pakistan and Bangladesh first before hitting it big at home

Bam posted his first video on a whim back in 2015, but as he told India News TV, he wasn’t expecting to get much attention from it.

“I was watching the devastation of the Kashmir floods, and a reporter was asking a local, who had just lost her house and her son, how she was feeling. I was stunned at the insensitivity. I did a 10-15 second satire on it and put it up on Facebook.”

The video began trending in Pakistan, which had also been affected by the natural disaster, and was picked up and shared widely among the country’s university students.

“I don’t know how, but suddenly I became very popular in Karachi University! My videos went viral in Pakistan and Bangladesh, but, funnily enough, not in India. India took a lot of time to warm up to my videos.”

He plays a whopping 19 different characters

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