Humour Comes From Love

Sharp, witty and unapologetic, there’s a method in stand-up comedienne Aditi Mittal’s madness.

- Suhani Singh

After being told that she wouldn’t cut it in front of a male audience and that stand-up comedy wouldn’t be a feasible profession, nevertheless she persisted. That’s comedienne Aditi Mittal, 31, for you, who recently made her Netflix debut with a special “Things They Wouldn’t Let Me Say”. What are these things? From the array of sanitary napkins and bras available to the sexual needs of a woman and the eve-teasing she faces on a daily basis. There is honesty (“I lost my family’s honour to a cycle. There’s a reason why my first boyfriend was called Atlas”) to commentary on the objectification of women in beauty pageants. But the finest segment is when Mittal becomes Dr Lutchuke, a sari-clad middle-aged woman who holds a sex education class. Terms such as foreplay and contraceptive are given colourful descriptions. The hour long show isn’t consistently entertaining but it does have its moments courtesy Mittal’s observational comedy.