Bhuvan Avnindra Shankar Bam (; born 22 January 1994) is an Indian comedian, writer, singer, actor, songwriter and YouTube personality from

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. He is known for his comedy channel on

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named ''BB Ki Vines.''

Early life and education

Bam was born on 22 January 1994 in

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into a Marathi

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family to Avnindra and Padma Bam. Later on, his family moved to

. He attended Green Fields School in Delhi and graduated from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College,

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, with a bachelor's degree in history. Bam's parents passed away in 2021 due to complications from a

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Career

Bam launched his internet career in uploading a video in which he lampooned a news reporter who asked a woman insensitive questions regarding the death of her son due to the

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floods. The video went viral in Pakistan, inspiring Bam to create his own YouTube channel in June 2015.

BB Ki Vines

''BB Ki Vines'' is a

channel whose 2–12 minute videos depict the life of an urban teenager, and his whimsical conversations with his friends and family – all played by Bam himself. He had 26 million subscribers on his YouTube channel as of 2024. He is known for playing characters like ''Bhuvan'' (a fictionalised version of himself), ''Banchoddas'', ''Sameer Fuddi'', ''Titu Mama'', ''Babloo'', ''Janki'', ''Mrs. Verma'', ''Adrak Baba'', ''Mr. Hola'', ''Papa Maakichu'', ''Detective Mangloo'', ''Dr. Sehgal'' and ''Babli Sir'' (also known as ''Angry Masterji''). The videos are filmed using a front camera on a phone by Bam himself. He originally uploaded his videos to Facebook, and then moved to YouTube.

Works

In August 2016, Bam released a music video of a song named "Teri Meri Kahani" which was sung by him. This was followed by other music videos of songs sung by him such as "Sang Hoon Tere", "Safar", "Rahguzaar", "Bas Mein", "Ajnabee" and "Heer Ranjha". He also appeared in a short film, ''Plus Minus'', along with Divya Dutt which earned him a

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. In December 2018, he began a new digital series on

called ''Titu Talks'', where he plays one of his character named ''Titu Mama'' who interviews his guests in a funny manner. The first episode featured

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as the first guest. In the second episode of that show released in February 2019, he interviewed a famous American pornographic actor Johnny Sins. In 2019, he released the song, "Ajnabee" on his YouTube channel. In May 2020, Bam uploaded an episode of ''Titu Talks'' titled 'Lifeline of Society' in which he interviewed an electrician, house help, farmers, transgenders and milkmen to understand the difficulties they are facing during the

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in India. In January 2021, he released a statement claiming that his uploaded videos had a total number of 3 billion views. In October of the same year, he released the web series '' Dhindora'' on

, with eight episodes. For that web series, he sang two songs namely "Saazish" and "Bann Gayi Zindagi". In March 2022, the fourth episode of ''Titu Talks'' featured the cast members of the movie '' RRR'', namely Ram Charan and Jr. NTR, along with the film's director S. S. Rajamouli. In January 2023, he made his OTT debut with '' Taaza Khabar''. In the same month, he was seen in Amazon miniTV's ''Rafta Rafta'' opposite Srishti Rindani.

Media

In April 2019, Bam was featured in the

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brunch cover story. In the same year, during July, Bam also featured on

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's cover. In January 2020, Bam featured on Grazia India's cover in collaboration with Puma. In the same month, he made his presence at the

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and the next month, he featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the "Digital Content Creators" category. In October 2021, Bam again featured in the

brunch cover story.

Filmography

Television

Web series

Short films

Music videos

Discography

Awards and nominations

Notes

Explanatory notes

Citations

External links

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