A youth from Orissa is making waves in the world of parody videos. A chat with Anahad Madhav Mohapatra alias Fitoor Mishra by Arindam Ganguly
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BHUBANESWAR: A parody video on Haryana’s rape convict and Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s popular film Messenger of God has recently gone viral on the social media. Styled asMessenger of Fraud, the voice over given in that video resembled the voice of Piyush Mishra, an actor popular for films such as Maqbool and Gang of Wasseypur. In reality, the voice is of a young literature graduate, Anahad Madhav Mohapatra alias Fitoor Mishra.
Anahad’s parody videos titled Fitoor Mishra ki Commentarre is becoming popular on social media platforms like Facebook and video sharing sites such as Youtube. His latest video, Messenger of Fraud, has got 1,683,721views on FB and 94,819 views on Youtube so far. He has also made parody videos of films such as Half-Girl Friend (2,002,782 views), Mubarakan (326,653 views), Baahubali-2 (121,192 views) and Lipstick under My Burkha (232,575 views).
There’s wide appreciation for his unique style, especially the immaculate mimicry of Piyush’s voice, the dialogues and phrases. Wait for more funny dialogues and phrases from Anahad in the coming days, like in Boney ka Launda, Jagrate ki Beyonce, Nepotism ki Aag Mein Jalne Wale Kabhi Dost Nahi Ho Sakte, and New York Samajhte Ho?, Jahaan TV Ghar mein Nahin, Bahar Hote Hain.
Anahad works as a content writer in Arre, a web channel, which makes videos, web series (fiction and non-fiction), investigative documentaries, audio series, reads, doodles, illustrations etc, in Mumbai. Born in Jamshedpur and brought up in New Delhi, his grandparents live in Bhadrak, Orissa.
His grandmother Mrinalini Mohapatra lives in Orissa. She writes and translates Oriya and Bengali fictions. Anahad’s father Bibhu Mohapatra was a director at a research firm. Anahad joined Arre as an intern after completing MA in MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Says he, “I was doing food review stories in the beginning when Sharan Saikumar, the editor for Arre, told me to develop a Hindi version of the spoof of films, in a style imitating Piyush Mishra. I was doing mimicry of Piyush Mishra while in college. I was pitching an IPL script in the voice of Piyush Mishra when the Half Girlfriend trailer came out. I was asked to do the Hindi script of the spoof in Mishra’s voice. We then decided to name the videos as Fitoor Mishra.” At the beginning, many thought that Piyush Mishra was doing the review. His mimicry was so interesting that even Piyush Mishra himself came on board and appreciated his work.
Other actors such as Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vikrant Massey, Huma Qureshi and directors like Abhishek Chaubey and Habib Faisal have also appreciated what he had done, says Anahad. Anahad used to visit his grandmother regularly and has memories about the state, the temples, the beaches, the Pakhala, the Konkoda and the Chinguri. “I was busy with my work and this stopped me from visiting Orissa. Earlier, I and my parents used to visit my grandmother’s house every year,” he says. Piyush also writes content for web channels. He has plans to make more spoof videos in the coming days. His upbringing in New Delhi and his studies in Islamia University had helped him immensely in the making of the spoof videos, he says.
