Jokes Apart

Born and brought up in Delhi,Rajoura studied in a government school at Pusa Road but always shuttled between his village in Bulandshahar,Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. “I never adopted the ethics of the city or left my village instincts. I have seen people who migrate from small towns get torn between the lifestyle demands of a city and their hometown and it is ironical how they strike a balance. I infuse my ‘stories’ with satire and real life inferences,” says Rajoura,who recently quit his decade-long well paying job in California with an IT company,to pursue his passion full-time.

His first public performance was at Mocha Bar,Nehru Place,in June during one of their ‘Open Mike’ sessions. “I casually went to one of the open mike nights which encourage people who want to express themselves. I started narrating a few stories and surprisingly people laughed. That was more than the encouragement I needed,” says Rajoura,who also met India’s best comedy export Papa CJ there. “He has agreed to promote me but nothing has been finalised yet,” he says.

Rajoura has also dabbled in acting in between his trips to India and his exploits include a role in Spandan Banerjee’s 45-minute film Fiction,which was screened at the Osian’s Film Festival in 2008 and a six-minute video for Shubha Mudgal’s Tadpe Bin Badal song,a few years ago.

So,what explains his choice of Hindi as a medium to entertain? First,he says,is for the obvious reason that he is more comfortable with Hindi than with any other language and the other because he wants to promote the dying tradition of Hindi and Urdu comedy.

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