TIME FOR 'MOM JOKES'

woman’, she assumed people chuckled at her, not with her.

- ANJALI RAM

FOR years, comedian Amruta Bendre thought laugh-ter followed her for the wrong reasons. It took a pandemic pause, a rightly-aligned Instagram algorithm, and a few stubborn joke prompts to nudge her toward comedy.

With her original show 'Phulka Dots', which comes to the city in March, Amruta stands firmly in a space few comics occupy, in the comedy ecosystem that rarely waits for mothers to catch up. She comes armed with Bollywood parodies, domestic truths and a wicked sense of timing! "I didn't know comedy was a profession until I was 34," she shares.