FUNNY GUY

Multi-hyphenate comedian Danish Sait has broken out of his regional playground during the lockdown months and expanded his footprint nationally. And he’s only getting started

- KATHAKALI CHANDA & NAINI THAKER

When we catch Danish Sait on a Zoom call in mid-March, he’s down with Covid-19 and isolating. “Are you sure you can speak?” we ask. “Of course. I am much better now,” he says. We offer to do the interview another day, but the 32-year-old insists, “I’m fine. I’m not such a delicate darling either.” The first few days of the infection were bad, he admits, but with the symptoms on the wane, Sait is looking for an escape from boredom. “I’ve asked my manager to line up as much work I can do from home,” he says.

His friends, though, will tell you isolation fatigue is a mere excuse; even in the best of times, Sait is a restive chap. “He can’t sit still for a minute,” says Vamsidhar Bhogaraju, writer, comedian and the director of One Cut Two Cut, Sait’s third film. “Even if he’s on a break, he’ll call up five times with some idea or the other. He’s always thinking about his next project.”