Dr Tushar Shah

Dr. Tushar Shah is a multi-talented person, who is a doctor by profession, along with pursuing his passions of writing Hindi poetries and working as a successful stand-up comedian. He was born in Mumbai in 1962, but he retains his youthful energy even now at the age of 52. He studied medicine and completed his post-graduation course by gaining an MD degree in General Medicine in 1990 from Nair Hospital in Mumbai. Now he is working as a consultant physician at Criticare Hospital in Mumbai and he also works as a teacher of medicine.

He is known for conducting several Quiz programs on medical and non-medical subjects in many places in the city. But from his early school days, he took interest in reading poetries and humorous literary works in Hindi, English and Gujarati languages. Consequently, he started writing satirical poetries himself and in 2002, he published a collection of his own Hindi poetries titled “Mera Kuchh Haasya Kavitayein”. Moreover, he combined his passion for humours and his medical profession to publish an anthology of medical related satires, with the title “Prescription Laughs” in 2011. But he rose to instant fame by participating in The Great Indian Laughter Challenge-Dwitiya, which was telecasted on Star One channel and he was selected as a finalist there.

Thereafter, he worked as a stand-up comedian in Zee TV and NDTV channels, and now he also performs in various stage programs all over the world, as a solo artist or with several other famous artists, like Sonu Nigam Sonu Nigam is a renowned Bollywood singer and comp >> Read More... or Shreya Ghoshal.

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Dr. Tushar Shah was born in 1962 and is almost 51 years old now. He was born in Mumbai and has resided in Mumbai thereafter. He is a comedian and a writer and is practicing medicine as his profession. He graduated from Nair Hospital with his MD in general medicine in 1990. He is practicing as a consulting physician at Criticare Hospital, Mumbai. He is even famous for his teaching of medicine. He has conducted many quizzes across the country based on both medical and non-medical topics. During his school days itself, he got familiar with his talents for humour and poetry. He was the most attractive person in his school and college always for his sense of humour and for the way he used to play with different words even while talking normally.

He has read many books, mainly poems. His favourites among them, whom he thought were educating people with their poems were- Ogden Nash, Shel Silverstein, Kaka Haathrasi, Ghazalkaar Mareez and Dushyant Kumar Dushyant Kumar is an Indian poet, dramatist, litte >> Read More... . He has written and published his own books too. “Prescription Laughs" and "Mera Kuch Hasya Kavitayen" are the books he wrote. He has penned down many poems which can tickle your stomach till it pains in "Meri Kuch Hasya Kavitayein". The poems are written in the Hindi language.

The second book "Prescription Laughs" is something he has inked that relates his medical career to his humorous passion. He participated in "The Great Indian Laughter Challenge- Dwitiya" and was one of the finalists. He stood at the fourth position in the season. After this show, he has tickled us many times through many stage shows as a stand-up comedian. Audiences love to listen to him as a comedian and he loves to entertain them as a comedian. He has performed all over the world as a comedian.