Aishwarya Mohanraj: Everything About The Stand-up Comedian!

Aishwarya Mohanraj is an Indian stand-up comedian, writer, and YouTuber. She rose to fame after finding a place among the top 10 contestants in Comicstaan, a stand-up comedy competition program aired on Amazon Prime Video. Later, she went on to write for shows such as Son of Abish, On Air with AIB, Behti Naak, One Mic Stand, and Comicstaan S02. Aishwarya is also famous for her talent to recite the alphabet backward. The YouTuber has a massive fan following on social media with a whopping 7,75,000 followers on Instagram and 7,21,000 subscribers on YouTube.

Physical Stats

Aishwarya Mohanraj Family

Aishwarya was born on 26th July 1994 to Mohanraj Pallat and Krishna Pallat, who worked as a teacher.

Aishwarya Mohanraj Relationship

Aishwarya is married to Aakash Shah who is the founder of One Hand Clap, a company that provides advertising services. Prior to this, Aaakash also worked as Social Media Head of All India Bakchod and as Writer at ScoopWhoop Media Pvt. Ltd.

In one of her videos, Aishwarya described how she happened to meet Aakash. In March 2020, she was seeing somebody else and that person moved to Canada. Post that, both of them realized that their relationship is not going to work and they were not giving each other enough time. 

Prior to that, Aishwarya had met Aakash a couple of times when he was working as social media head at AIB. One day, she received a notification that Akash has started following her on social media. Later, the couple started chatting with each other and slowly they fell in love. Finally, Aishwarya tied the knot with Aakash on October 19, 2022.  

Aishwarya Mohanraj Education

Aishwarya did her schooling at R.N Podar School in Mumbai and passed out in 2010. After her schooling, in 2017, Aishwarya enrolled for B.Pharm+ MBA (Pharm Tech) program at the School of Pharmacy and Technology Management, NMIMS. She completed the course in 2017.

Controversies

Aishwarya conducted a series of celebrity interviews for Netflix, the OTT platform. Titled ‘ Not an Awkward Interview’, the show was streaming on YouTube. As part of the humorous program, Aishwarya interviewed leading Bollywood actors such as Janhvi Kapoor and Rana Daggubati. The show follows the same format as programs that have been telecast in the US such as Cunk On Earth or Between Two Ferns. In those shows, the interviewer intentionally adopts an awkward persona, and the interviewee responds to those questions with humor or sarcasm of their own.

However, Aishwarya’s show stirred controversy as Twiteratti alleged that the sets of ‘ Not an Awkward Interview’ was startingly similar to Ziwe Fumudoh’s show. Ziwe is an American comedian and host of a satirical late-night talk show aired on Showtime that ran for two seasons. According to netizens, the sets of both shows were all-pink and they lashed out at the Indian show for copying the interiors of its US counterpart. 

Aishwarya Mohanraj Profession

During her college days, Aishwarya worked as a Technical Intern (Quality Control) with Cipla, a pharmaceutical company for a couple of months. She also worked as a Public Relations Intern with  Bristol-Myers Squibb for 5 months. In June 2017, Aishwarya joined as an analyst with Nielsen, the market research company at their Mumbai office. However, she worked there only for 6 months. Within a week, she realized that it was not the job where she want to be.

Later Aishwarya started doing comedy and she was just three months into it. During that time, she got a call from Comicstaan, a stand-up comedy competition television series aired on Amazon Prime. However, the organisers of the show told Aishwarya that she will have to quit her job as the show required the contestants to stay with them for three months. Subsequently, Aishwarya spoke to her parents and convinced them. Thus in 2018, Aishwarya became a contestant in Comicstaan-Season 1 and she managed to get into the top 10.

Aishwarya’s first comedy job was with ‘Son Of Abish’, a show hosted by stand-up comedian Abish Mathew. Thus,  Aishwarya ventured into writing and later wrote for several shows such as On Air with AIB, Behti Naak, One Mic Stand, and Comicstaan S02.

Aishwarya Mohanraj Net Worth

As per sources, Aishwarya’s net worth stands at $2 million.

Lesser Known Facts About Aishwarya Mohanraj!

• Before their relationship started, Aishwarya always used to think why Aakash is not following her on Instagram. One day Aakash started following her at morning 5:30 am. She also followed him back and immediately he messaged her back. 

• Till the time she got married, Aishwarya has never stayed away from her parents. It was after her marriage that she shifted to a rented house in Mumbai along with her husband. The YouTuber’s is a 3BHK apartment spanning 950 sq.feet.

• Aishwarya Mohanraj says that her mom is too nice and she doesn’t like her daughter using abusive words such as ‘Saala’.

• When asked about the reason to get married, Akash says that marriage makes life easy to live in society. Aishwarya finds that reason logical and extremely sexy. 

• Aishwarya Mohanraj was once asked in an interview whether she has ever faced any discrimination due to the reason that she is a female. She responded that she has never faced any such bias except for the fact that she is being addressed as a female comic.

• Due to the lockdown imposed following the outbreak of Covid-19, Aishwarya Mohanraj was doing virtual shows on Zoom. However, she says you just cannot compare a live stand-up comedy with anything else.

• According to Aishwarya’s mom, her daughter used to be a quiet kid during her childhood days. Her dad also said that, unlike other parents, they never had to run behind her.

•  Aishwarya says that 90% of her content is based on her personal life. If she comes across a funny incident, she tries to incorporate that humourous element into her program.

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