Somnath Karmakar is the youngest and the most electrifying stand-up comedian from Faridabad (NCR) India. He was born on 27th Jan, in a bengali family but born and brought up in U.P (Meerut), India. He displayed his exceptional skills in acting at a very young age while schooling at the Guru Tegh Bahadur Public School in Meerut. His debut in the industry however was in 2007 with a very famous television comedy series "The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, Season 3". After that, there was no stopping he soon appeared in several television shows and tele films on various indian television channels including Star One, Star News, Aaj tak, Sahara, Jan Sandesh, Total Tv, Magik Tv and numerous radio stations like Radio Mirchi, Big FM, Radio Chaska and many more. The creative team of The great Indian laughter challenge has recognized the talent and creativity of Somnath Karmakar and He was then selected Again in the third season of “The great Indian laughter challenge” in 2008. This was where he was referred to as the ‘Youngest Champion’ on the show.
From his initials successes in the show, he was asked to participate in other stand-up comedy shows in various other television channels in india. Initialy he is recognized as A Standup Comedian, but this is not all what he is. he is an Actor, a mimicry artist, a musician, a poet, a painter, a writer and lots more to mention Being an actor he believes, The actor must discover the essence of character and project that essence to the audience. he has always potrayed the essence of the character which has been perceived differently, however, at different times, periods, styles, and cultures, and by different personalities of character. When concers begins to approach part of the actor's challenge he says, "To appear real, the actor must be artificial."
Somnath believes in the importance of an academic grounding in the basic principles of art and adheres strongly to the classical premises of art education, having childhood full of drawing and painting always foreshadowed an artistic future. After completing 4 years in college of pharmacy somnath is now persuing masters in business administration in international business. Being a pharmacy graduate by profession and an artist by passion Somnath did full justice with his passion and profession.
Mimicry artist is performer whose act consists of giving the impression of being someone else by imitating other person’s voice and mannerisms. and the rarest combination of mimicry with Stand-up Comedy is one of the most difficult arts in the World. Being able to make a bunch of strangers laugh with your amazing skill of voice modulation is a fantastic skill. Mimicry has been studied phonetically to a very minor extent. This is quite surprising considering the interest in the phenomenon among the general public. The phenomenon has, however, an interest that goes far beyond the area of public entertainment. From a purely phonetic point of view it may tell us a lot about the flexibility of the human voice – to what extent, and in what ways, is it possible to modulate one’s voice. If you ever wondered how flexible is the human voice? then Somnath has more than phenominal 100 voices to proove himself a case study of mimicry.
With his growing success he was appreciated and loved more and more by audiences all over the world. He was asked to be a part of the "Foundation Against Thallesimia" to serve humanity on his special way, since then he has kept his association and promise to the NGO. Beside that Somnath is now well verse and feel very comfortable in stage after completing 5 glorious years and more than 500 national and international shows. from corporate shows to public shows, live concerts to university festivals Somnath has strongly made his mark of presence successfully. Amongst all the wowest moment from recieving the best mimic in inter university festival in three consecutive years 2006, 2007 and 2008 the most overwhelming moment was to perform in the honour of the chief minister of Haryana state "Sh. Bhupendra Singh Hudda ji."
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