Mridul Tiwari

Timeline

1. 2001Born in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh. Aggregator profiles give 7 March 2001, a date he has never confirmed in an interview.He grew up in Etawah and still calls it his hometown.
2. 2015Opens the YouTube channel that becomes The MriDul on 14 March, though it carries no published video for another three years.Channel join date is printed on the channel page.
3. 2018Uploads his first video, Sister vs Girlfriend, in October. Aggregator profiles put its views at 43 lakh.NDTV dates the start of his content work to 2018.
4. 2019Channel crosses one lakh subscribers by September, on a run of sketches made with his sister and friends.
5. 2020Reaches one million subscribers by March and receives the YouTube Golden Button for it.
6. 2022Wins the Young Comedy Trendsetter award at the ET Leadership Excellence Awards.
7. 2023Buys a Lamborghini Huracan on 14 August and posts it as the world's first Lamborghini carrying the words Jai Shree Ram.
8. 2024Takes Best Content Creator and Global Trendsetter at the Influencer Impact Awards.
9. 2025On 30 March his Huracan, out on a test drive with a dealer at the wheel, hits two labourers on a pavement in Noida. He is not in the car. The driver is arrested.Reported by NDTV on 31 March 2025.
10. 2025Wins the Fans Ka Faisla app vote against Shehbaz Badesha and enters Bigg Boss 19 on the premiere night of 24 August as the fifteenth of sixteen housemates.
11. 2025Evicted on day 80, in the second week of November, through a live audience vote held inside the house. He finishes tenth.
12. 2025A homecoming event in Etawah on 28 November is abandoned after twelve minutes when the crowd breaks the barricades.
13. 2026Channel stands at about 20.1 million subscribers and 1,478 videos, with no new television work announced.

Who Mridul Tiwari is

Mridul Tiwari is a performer who built an audience without television, films or a stage career. He acts in short comedy videos on YouTube under the name The MriDul, playing a rotating set of relatives, neighbours and classmates in sketches about Indian family life. The channel carries about 20.1 million subscribers and roughly 1,478 videos as of November 2026, which puts it among the larger Hindi comedy channels in the country.^[7]

He is not a stand up comedian and does not tour as one. His format is closer to a one man theatre company: a house or a street, two or three friends, a domestic argument stretched past the point where it should be funny, and a punchline. The channel describes the work in its own words as funny and dramatic incidents of family and friends in desi culture.^[7]

The other half of his public identity comes from Bigg Boss 19. He entered the season in August 2025 by winning a pre-season vote run on the JioHotstar app against Shehbaz Badesha, the brother of Shehnaaz Gill, and that made his casting a public decision rather than a production one.^[6] Read against the rest of his career, the vote was the moment a sketch channel with a young audience was measured against a television name and won.

The written record on him is thin in a way that is worth saying plainly. He has no Wikipedia article. The news coverage is concentrated on three events, the Noida crash in March 2025, the Bigg Boss season that followed, and the Etawah homecoming in November, and the biographical detail that fills the rest comes from aggregator profiles that repeat each other. This entry keeps those two kinds of material apart.

Etawah, a camera and the move to Noida

Mridul Tiwari grew up in Etawah, a district town in the Chambal belt of Uttar Pradesh, in a Hindi speaking household of the kind his sketches later described. His father is named in aggregator profiles as Raghvendra Tiwari and his mother as Shashi Tiwari, and he is listed as the only son with two sisters. None of that has been confirmed by him in an interview, and the names are repeated across profiles without a first source.^[5]

The detail that reads most like him is about a camera. Aggregator profiles say he bought one at seventeen and began working as a photographer, taking pictures before he ever stood in front of a lens. It explains the visual grammar of the channel, which is shot like a set of photographs in sequence, with faces held a beat longer than a television editor would allow, and light that comes from a window rather than a kit.^[5]

He is described as a graduate of Meerut University, which is how the aggregators phrase it, and the degree is listed simply as graduation. No news outlet that covers him has named a school, a college or a subject. He has also not spoken publicly about the years between school and the channel, and this entry found no interview in which he sets out how he supported himself while the channel was small.^[1][5]

By the time his name reached national news he was living in Noida, in the Delhi suburbs, which is where NDTV placed him in its report on the crash in March 2025. Noida matters to the story for a practical reason: it is close enough to Delhi for brand work and studio shoots, and far enough from Mumbai that a creator can keep a production team on a fixed cost.^[2]

The MriDul and how the comedy works

The channel was opened on 14 March 2015 but the first published video, Sister vs Girlfriend, went up in October 2018. Aggregator profiles put that video at 43 lakh views, an unusually large first outing, and it set the template that the channel has followed since: a domestic argument between two people who know each other too well, escalated by a third who should not be involved.^[5]

The early videos were made with his sister and a small group of friends, which is the reason the family comedy reads as observed rather than written. When a creator casts the people he actually grew up with, the reactions have a timing that a hired actor rarely reproduces, and the audience can tell. Aggregator profiles note that his sister Pragati is herself a YouTuber, though the relationship is not confirmed anywhere outside those profiles.^[5]

In 2021 the news agency ANI described him to a national audience as a YouTuber known for comedy videos, using the phrase funny, light hearted entertainment. It is a bland description and an accurate one: the sketches do not carry a political argument, a social message or a persona with opinions. They carry a situation.^[2]

The channel's own line, printed in Hindi at the top of its about page, translates roughly as you keep laughing, we will keep making you laugh, and it opens with a greeting, Ram Ram ji. That register, warm, rural inflected, deliberately unpolished, is the brand. It is also the reason the content travels outside the metros, into the towns where a joke about a relative who overstays needs no glossary.^[7]

From one lakh to twenty million subscribers

The growth curve is the most documented part of his career. The channel crossed one lakh subscribers by September 2019 and one million by March 2020, a doubling time of about six months, and the million mark brought the Golden Button that YouTube gives creators who reach it. NDTV recorded both dates when it profiled him in March 2025.^[2][5]

By March 2025 NDTV put the channel at more than 18 million subscribers and 240 videos, with 3.5 million followers on Instagram and a Facebook page carrying the same name. In November 2026 the channel page shows about 20.1 million subscribers across 1,478 videos, so the audience has kept growing while the publishing rate has gone up sharply.^[2][7]

That comparison is worth stating carefully, because it is easy to misread. A jump from 240 videos to nearly 1,500 in twenty months says more about production capacity than about reach: he moved from making videos with friends to running a team that publishes several times a week. The subscriber count moved by roughly two million over the same period, which is healthy but no longer the vertical line of 2019 and 2020.^[2][7]

The scale of that audience is what made him interesting to television. A channel with twenty million subscribers reaches more people in a week than a Hindi general entertainment channel reaches in a month, and it reaches them without a distributor. When Bigg Boss built a public vote around him in August 2025, it was testing whether that audience would turn up for something other than a sketch.^[6]

Awards and the business of the channel

Aggregator profiles list two awards. He took the Young Comedy Trendsetter award at the ET Leadership Excellence Awards in 2022, and Best Content Creator along with Global Trendsetter at the Influencer Impact Awards in 2024. The same profiles place a London Book of World Records entry next to those two, a line this entry could not match to any record keeping body and which is treated with caution below.^[5]

The money in a channel of this size comes from four places: advertising revenue shared by YouTube, paid integrations inside videos, live appearances and brand campaigns, and licensing of clips. Only the first is visible from outside, and even that is an estimate. Bharat Fast puts his net worth at about five crore rupees as of 2025, a figure the site does not source. It is repeated here as a reported estimate and nothing more.^[1]

The visible marker of that income is the car. He bought a Lamborghini Huracan on 14 August 2023, posted it on Instagram, and described it as the world's first Lamborghini with the words Jai Shree Ram on it. Aggregator profiles list seven cars and two motorcycles in his garage, all illustrated with photographs, but only the Huracan is documented by a news organisation as his.^[2][5]

What the channel has not done is diversify in the way some of his contemporaries have. There is no clothing label, no education platform, no production house announced under his name. For a creator of his size that is unusual, and it is part of why the Bigg Boss appearance in 2025 read as a step outward rather than a promotional stop.

The Lamborghini and the Noida crash

On the evening of 30 March 2025 a red Lamborghini hit two labourers who were sitting on a pavement in Sector 94, Noida, near an under-construction building, and then rammed a tree. The two men, workers from Chhattisgarh, were taken to hospital with leg injuries and were reported out of danger. The car belonged to Mridul Tiwari. He was not driving it.^[2][5]

The driver was a car dealer named Deepak, who was taking the car on a test drive because he was interested in buying it from Tiwari. NDTV described him as being from Jaipur, while aggregator profiles say Ajmer, a discrepancy this entry leaves unresolved. The car carried a Pondicherry registration. The police arrested him and seized the vehicle.^[2][5]

A video shot at the scene showed workers running towards the car and the driver asking, in Hindi, whether anyone had died there. One of the injured men claimed the car had been doing around 300 kmph, a figure the police did not adopt, and the driver told investigators the crash was caused by a mechanical fault. Neither claim has been confirmed in any report this entry could find.^[2][5]

The handling of the case produced a second story. Noida Police initially said the driver was unknown even though he had been arrested immediately, and after a complaint about a cover up they clarified that the complainant had not known the driver's identity or address when the complaint was written. For Tiwari the episode had a different cost: for a fortnight his name appeared in road safety coverage, attached to a car rather than to a video, in front of an audience that had never heard of The MriDul.^[2]

No report cited here records the outcome of the case, whether a chargesheet was filed, whether the matter was settled, or whether any compensation was paid. That is a gap in the public record and not a finding about anyone's conduct.

Bigg Boss 19 and the vote that got him in

Bigg Boss 19 premiered on 24 August 2025 on Colors and JioHotstar with Salman Khan as host, ran for 105 days, and ended on 7 December 2025 with Gaurav Khanna as winner and Farrhana Bhatt as runner up. Eighteen people entered the house across the season, sixteen of them on the premiere night.^[6]

Tiwari was the fifteenth of those sixteen, and the only one who had to win a public vote to be there. From 14 to 21 August 2025 the show ran a campaign called Fans Ka Faisla on the JioHotstar app, putting two names on the ballot for one place: Shehbaz Badesha, a singer and the brother of Shehnaaz Gill, and Tiwari, described in the show's own material as a content creator known for the comedy channel The MriDul. Tiwari won.^[6]

The contest did not end there. Badesha entered the house as the first wildcard on day 14, so the two men spent most of the season in the same rooms with a vote between them on the record. That structure, a public decision followed by a shared house, is the reason the season's coverage kept returning to the pair.^[6]

For Tiwari the vote was also a demonstration. A television show had asked a general audience to choose between an entertainment industry family name and a YouTube comedian, and the comedian won on an app that his own viewers already used. Whatever the margin, the result was read inside the industry as evidence that creator audiences now convert.^[6]

Inside the house: captaincy, nominations and the eviction

His first night set the tone. The house had fifteen beds for sixteen housemates, and Bigg Boss asked the group to decide who would sleep outside the bedroom. The majority picked Tiwari. It is a small cruelty of the format and it placed him, from day zero, at the edge of the group rather than inside it.^[6]

He was nominated in the very first week and faced the public vote alongside Badesha, and he survived. Through the season he was up for eviction in most weeks, including a run of nominations in the middle of the season that put him on the ballot four times in six weeks. He also picked up a piece of luck on day 14, when he and Kunickaa Sadanand were sent to the App Room and both chose the same option, Suraksha Kawach Block Eviction, which meant no eviction took place that week.^[6]

His one week as house captain came in the middle of the season and produced the decision he is most associated with inside the show. Bigg Boss proposed that Abhishek Bajaj and Ashnoor Kaur be nominated alone for breaking rules. The house tied on whether to accept it. As captain, Tiwari ruled against the proposal, and the consequence was that every other housemate went up for nomination instead. It was a ruling that spread the risk across the group, and it made him a target for the weeks that followed.^[6]

There was also a reprimand. ABP Live reported that Salman Khan pulled him up on a weekend episode for inappropriate remarks towards some of the female contestants, that he apologised on camera, and that he changed his manner afterwards. The same report notes that he grew close to Gaurav Khanna, a friendship that shaped the groups in the house, and that he reached the top ten despite a shaky start.^[4]

The exit arrived in the eleventh week, on day 80. Rather than the usual weekend eviction, a group of audience members came into the living room for a captaincy task in which housemates pitched themselves for votes. Gaurav Khanna and Shehbaz Badesha topped that ballot. Tiwari received the fewest votes and was asked to leave the house at once. The Siasat Daily reported the eviction on 10 November 2025, citing insiders, and ABP Live carried it on 13 November. He finished tenth of eighteen.^[3][4][6]

The Etawah homecoming

On 28 November 2025 his hometown put on a welcome. A local jeweller, Rajeev Kumar of Gungun Jewelers, organised the event at the Ramlila Ground in Etawah and had a stage built for it. Tiwari arrived by road in a Defender, and Bhaskar English reported the convoy behind him at hundreds of cars and motorcycles, with stunts performed on the way.^[8]

The crowd defeated the arrangements. Thousands of people turned up, and in the rush for selfies they broke chairs near the stage and began pulling at the barricades. The police were unable to hold the line. Tiwari stayed twelve minutes, left without completing the event, and the traffic police afterwards challaned nine vehicles from the convoy for a total of fifty seven thousand rupees. A traffic inspector, Subedar Singh, told the paper that the road was not a platform for a display of power.^[8]

The episode is a better measure of his reach than any subscriber number. A YouTube channel based in Noida pulled a crowd large enough to overwhelm a district town's arrangements, in a city of about two and a half lakh people, on the strength of a reality show appearance and a run of comedy sketches. It is also a reminder that the audience is physical and young, and that it turns up.

Family and private life

Aggregator profiles describe him as unmarried and living in Noida, with his parents in Etawah. The family names they carry, Raghvendra Tiwari and Shashi Tiwari, and the two sisters, one of them the YouTuber Pragati Tiwari, come from that single chain of profiles and have not been confirmed by him in an interview or by a news organisation.^[5]

He does not discuss his private life in the press. Across the coverage of the crash, the season and the homecoming, there is no relationship, no engagement and no family dispute on the record. For a reality show contestant that is unusual, and it appears to be a deliberate choice rather than an accident: he gave the show what it needed on camera and kept the rest out of it.

The one personal detail that repeats in the profiles is a set of ordinary habits, a gym routine, swimming, travel, a pet dog. None of it is documented anywhere better than the aggregators, and this entry does not lean on it.^[5]

What has not been confirmed

His date of birth is not settled. StarsUnfolded gives 7 March 2001 and adds the day of the week, and Bharat Fast repeats the date, but he has not confirmed it publicly and no news organisation has reported it independently. The Pisces sign printed in the same profiles follows from that date and is not a separate fact.^[1][5]

His education is thinner still. The graduation from Meerut University appears only in aggregator profiles, with no subject, no year and no college named, and no interview in which he mentions it. His height, given as about five feet nine inches, is in the same category: an aggregator number that he has never published.^[1][5]

The financial figures should be read the same way. The net worth of about five crore rupees comes from Bharat Fast without a source, and the fee he was paid for Bigg Boss 19 has not been disclosed by him or by the makers. The list of seven cars and two motorcycles in the aggregator profiles is illustrated with photographs but carries no dates, and only the Lamborghini Huracan is documented by a news report as his.^[1][2][5]

The London Book of World Records mention, printed beside his 2024 awards, could not be matched to any record keeping organisation with a public register. It is left out of the account above for that reason, not because it has been disproved.^[5]

The crash case has no public ending in the material this entry could reach. There is no report of a chargesheet, a trial, a conviction or a settlement, and the two accounts of the driver's home town, Jaipur in NDTV and Ajmer in the aggregator profiles, have not been reconciled. The claim that the car was doing 300 kmph was made by one of the injured men and never confirmed by the police, and the driver's claim of a mechanical fault was not established either.^[2][5]

The exact date of his eviction also needs care. The season table records day 80, which works out to 12 November 2025, while the Siasat Daily reported the eviction on 10 November and ABP Live published on 13 November. The vote took place inside the house before the episode aired, which is why the three dates do not line up.^[3][4][6]