Sindhu Vee... on "Alphabet" and her brand of comedy

Comedian, writer, and actor Sindhu Vee joins Abhay for a broad conversation about her new comedy special Alphabet , how her journey has informed her comedy, and the way she measures success. Mangoes, Amitabh Bachchan, and love letters were all somehow included. OK - so Love letters - they come in so many different formats, with messages that range from the broadly universal to the specific and intricate details of our very human relationships. Now, sometimes those expressions resonate loudly with us because they’re deeply personal and if it’s also going to tickle us with comedy, then it also needs the right combination of emotion, timing, and storytelling and definitely needs to come from the right voice. So, for me it was such a treat to catch up with comedian, writer, and actor Sindhu Venkatanarayanan, who is best known globally to all her fans simply as Sindhu Vee. Born in Delhi and raised in India and the Philippines, Sindhu is a British comedian who has been a fixture in the stand up circuit since 2012, with performances worldwide and recurrent appearances at the Edinburgh festival fringe, on the BBC, and on a variety of Netflix shows as an actor. Her range of presentations and comedy style are refreshingly authentic, relatable, sharp, unapologetic, and sweet all at once. This past year, she’s been especially busy acting with roles in the Pradeeps of Pittsburgh with Naveen Andrews, and the feature film Picture This with Simone Ashley. But it’s her recent self released special called “Alphabet”, that is an endearingly warm, tender, and pointedly funny window into her world of relationships, her background and upbringing, and experiences with friends and family that really highlight her skill as a performer who can allow audiences to absorb and mirror a range of emotions and truly even see some of themselves in that journey. So we caught up to talk about it all, but before getting into all the comedy and art she’s making, I asked her first to talk about how she actually goes about consuming comedy… ‪@SindhuVComedy‬ #sindhuvee #comedy #comedian #indiancomedian #southasian