Bad Education

Every episode, about two minutes long, takes a popular Bollywood track, and makes up a ridiculous story behind the song’s title. For example, in Duniya ki Spelling, the show’s first episode, the professor explains to the classroom that the “I” in “duniya” leads to the Kumar Sanu hit from the ’90s, Duniya mein ‘Aaye’ ho toh love kar lo, punning on the alphabet “I”. The videos have colourful, animated stick figures with stock characters — a class of students and a professor, that could have been Karnatak himself.

The show is the product of a bored afternoon, when Karnatak started messing around with Flash, an animation software. “I would do this in school — break down film songs or just people’s names and share it with classmates as a joke. It came naturally to me, but I never thought anything could be done with it,” says the 30-year-old from Delhi, who works for a radio channel by day. His doodling has paid off, with the show making money through a partnership with Google and Snapdeal, the e-commerce website.

There are a bunch of new humour channels online, but Karnatak says his has the distinction of being the only comedy channel dedicated to Bollywood. He owes his sense of humour to “desi, non-dirty jokes and Govinda movies”, and has new content underway, with shorter videos — under a minute-long — to break the monotony.

sankhayan.ghosh@expressindia.com

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