Comedian Kunal Kamra on Tuesday shared a five-point post on X titled “How to Kill an Artist: A Step-by-Step Guide” in which he criticised the violent outrage against his recent show and said artists can either sell their soul or wither in silence.<\/p>\n
Kamra’s video “Naya Bharat”, released on his YouTube channel last week, led to a massive political controversy over his traitor comment seen to be against Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. Shiv Sainiks destroyed the venue where Kamra shot the comedy show. The stand-up comic faces three FIRs in Mumbai and is currently in Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, he put out a post slamming the way he is being hounded by authorities. “‘How to Kill an Artist: A Step-by-Step Guide’ 1) Outrage – just enough for brands to stop commissioning their work.<\/p>\n
2) Outrage more- until private and corporate gigs dry up 3) Outrage louder -so big venues won’t take risk.<\/p>\n
4) Outrage violently – until even the smallest spaces shut their doors 5) Summon their audience for questioning – turning art into a crime scene,” he posted on X.<\/p>\n
According to Kamra, an artist is left with only two choices under such circumstances. “Sell their soul and become a dollar puppet or wither in silence. This isn’t just a playbook, it’s a political weapon. A silencing machine,” he wrote.<\/p>\n
There were reports that audience members who attended Kamra’s show were sent notice to appear before the police. However, a police official denied that this was so.<\/p>\n
“This is wrong information,” the official told PTI.<\/p>\n
Kamra, known for his anti-establishment views, has refused to apologise for his over 40-minute video that has garnered over 11 million views on YouTube.<\/p>\n
The comedian failed to appear before Khar police in the case registered against him. On Monday, a team went to his Mahim home to check his availability.<\/p>\n
The comedian later took a jibe at the police saying the visit was a waste of time and public resources<\/a> as he had not been living there for the past 10 years.<\/p>\n In a post on X, Kamra said, “Going to an address where I haven’t lived for the last 10 years is a waste of your time & public resources.” Kamra was supposed to appear before Khar police during the day, an official said, adding that it was the second time he was summoned.<\/p>\n Last week, three FIRs against him<\/a> — at Nashik Rural, Jalgaon and Nashik (Nandgaon) — were transferred to Khar police station where a case has already been registered on the complaint of Shiv Sena MLA Murji Patel.<\/p>\n (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n \u200bComedian Kunal Kamra on Tuesday shared a five-point post on X titled “How to Kill an Artist: A Step-by-Step Guide” in which he criticised the violent outrage against his recent show and said artists can either sell their soul or wither in silence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Comedian Kunal Kamra on Tuesday shared a five-point post on X titled “How to Kill an Artist: A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":116304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fth3d81o_kunal-kamra_625x300_27_March_25-qLxMgF.jpeg",1200,738,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fth3d81o_kunal-kamra_625x300_27_March_25-qLxMgF-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fth3d81o_kunal-kamra_625x300_27_March_25-qLxMgF-300x185.jpeg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fth3d81o_kunal-kamra_625x300_27_March_25-qLxMgF-768x472.jpeg",640,393,true],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fth3d81o_kunal-kamra_625x300_27_March_25-qLxMgF-1024x630.jpeg",640,394,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fth3d81o_kunal-kamra_625x300_27_March_25-qLxMgF.jpeg",1200,738,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fth3d81o_kunal-kamra_625x300_27_March_25-qLxMgF.jpeg",1200,738,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fth3d81o_kunal-kamra_625x300_27_March_25-qLxMgF-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fth3d81o_kunal-kamra_625x300_27_March_25-qLxMgF-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}