This oft-viral YouTuber has been awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Award for 'Best Digital Influencer', and the 'Best Comedy Influencer' award at the first World Bloggers Awards held at the Cannes Film Festival
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Ashish Chanchlani | 27
YouTuber and Social Media Content Creator
A failed attempt at a college exam made Ashish Chanchlani realise that civil engineering was not for him. He started creating short videos on social media in 2014, but little did he know then that they would be his passport to stardom.
“I used to make funny, relatable short videos for fun, but seeing the positive response on Instagram, I decided to compile those and upload them on YouTube,” says Chanchlani.
He soon began making videos natively for YouTube, with his first titled—How to annoy people who say ‘Tu Mere Baap Ko Janta Nahi Hai’.
“It was when my video—Eating Habits in Classroom—got 3.1 million views overnight on Facebook that I realised that my content can go viral… and I decided to make a career out of making videos,” says Chanchlani, the second-most subscribed Indian YouTuber with 23.3 million subscribers.
(This story appears in the 12 February, 2021 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)