Kanan Gill

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Kanan Gill
File:Kanan Gill trailer launch Noor.jpg
Kanan Gill in May 2019
Born (1989-12-24) 24 December 1989 (age 36)
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
Alma materMSRIT (B.E.)
OccupationsStand-up comedian
Actor
YouTuber
Years active2013 – present
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)

Kanan Singh Gill is an Indian stand-up comedian, actor, author and YouTuber. He won the Punch Line Bangalore Competition. He is known for the YouTube series Pretentious Movie Reviews[1] where he reviews campy Bollywood films along with fellow stand-up comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath. He was one of the main personalities behind the YouTube Comedy Hunt and also co-hosted the YouTube FanFest India. In 2017, he released his own one-hour comedy special, Keep It Real on Amazon Prime Video.[2] He made his debut on the big screen with the movie Noor, alongside Sonakshi Sinha. In 2018, he was also a judge on Comicstaan, a comedic reality TV show, on Amazon Prime Video. He released his new special Is this it? on YouTube in 2024.[3]

Early life

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Kanan was born in Bareilly to a Sikh family and spent his early years in Dehradun and Delhi. His father Charanjit Singh Gill, an officer with the Indian Army was also the principal of Rashtriya Military School, Bangalore. At an early age, he moved to Bengaluru with his family. He did his schooling at Ahlcon Public School, New Delhi and The Frank Anthony Public School, Bengaluru.[4] He pursued a B.E. degree in Computer Science at MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology. He was a part of a band where he later became the lead singer when he started writing "funny songs".

Career

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Kanan worked as a software engineer at Exeter Group Inc., for three years.[5] In the meantime, he participated in and won a competition called Punchline Bangalore followed by another win at the Comedy Store in Mumbai. He then quit his job to pursue a career in comedy.

He gained popularity with the viral YouTube series Pretentious Movie Reviews. He reviewed critically panned popular Hindi movies along with Biswa Kalyan Rath. Kanan also worked in an improvised sketch comedy show, The Living Room on Comedy Central.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Gill made his acting debut in Sunhil Sippy's Noor in 2017, alongside Sonakshi Sinha.[16] The same year, Gill launched his special Keep It Real on the Amazon Prime Video.[17] In 2020, his special 'Yours Sincerely' was released on Netflix.

In 2023, he also starred in the Norwegian romantic comedy called Christmas As Usual alongside Ida Ursin-Holm.

On 18 January 2024, HarperCollins released Acts of God, Gill's debut novel.[18] It is a comedy-science fiction story based on a short story that he wrote in 2016-17.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Film Role Language Notes Ref
2017 Noor Saad Sehgal Hindi [19]
2023 Aachar & Co — Kannada Co-writer [20]
Christmas As Usual Jashan Joshi Norwegian
English

Web

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Year Platform Name Notes
2017 Amazon Video Keep It Real[21][22]
2016 - 2019 YouTube Better Life Foundation[23] Produced by Them Boxer Shorts
Released by All India Bakchod.[24]
2014 – present YouTube Pretentious Movie Reviews
I Can Do That[25]
How Insensitive
2014 - 2017 YouTube Son of Abish[26] Season 1
Season 2 with Biswa Kalyan Rath
Season 3 with Sonakshi Sinha
2018 Amazon Video The Improvisers: Something From Nothing[27] Alongside Kenny Sebastian, Abish Mathew, Kaneez Surka
Comicstaan - Season 1[28] Himself - Judge[29]
2019 Amazon Video Sketchy Behaviour
Amazon Video Comicstaan: Season 2 Judge
2020 Netflix Yours Sincerely, Kanan Gill[30]
2023 Paytm Insider, YouTube Is This It? Limited Edition show [31][32]

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