The Multiverse Of Bhuvan Bam

How do you introduce Bhuvan Bam? As a singer-songwriter, comedian, interviewer and an actor, or all? With many feathers already settled in his hat, India’s first legit YouTube star is now at the helm of a new phase in his career

- Ananya Ghosh

How do you introduce Bhuvan Bam?

Two years ago, when I had interviewed Bhuvan Bam for the first time, he had spoken about how he wanted to develop a BB universe on the lines of the Marvel and DC world, with the various characters he plays in his YouTube videos, each replete with an origin story. To a skeptical journalist, not too well-versed with Bhuvan’s mettle then, this seemed way too far-fetched — it seemed like a figment of a fantasy of an overambitious 25-year-old at its best.

This year, Bhuvan Bam is basking in the success of this very fantasy — his web show, Dhindora — his first-ever long format project. Dhindora sees characters from his BB world coming together, Avengers-style. “I was already conceptualising the show when we last spoke,” Bam laughs out loud, adding that it still seems surreal to him as well.

The OG of social media celebs, whose meteoric rise from a singer at a Mughlai restaurant in Delhi to India’s first legit YouTube superstar had spawned legions of wannabes, owes much of his success to his perseverance, business acumen, and this very ability to think out of the box.