Timeline
- 1991Born on 2 March in Thane, Maharashtra, into a Maharashtrian family with roots in Khed, Ratnagiri.His father worked as a conductor with the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation; his mother is a homemaker.
- 2013 to 2014Wins the Canvas Laugh Club Open Mic Maverick competition while studying for an MBA, the result that made him take comedy seriously.
- 2014 to 2018Works at an automobile dealership and finishes his management degree, performing at open mics and small venues at night.
- 2019Joins Radio Mirchi as a radio jockey, a job he keeps for four years, and begins hosting the Filmfare Awards Marathi.The radio work taught him timing and crowd work in front of an audience he could not see.
- 2023Releases his first stand-up special, Baap Ko Mat Sikha, and leaves radio the same year.
- 2024Releases a second special, Back Bencher, built around school life and what adults regret about it.
- 2025Assaulted by a group of 10 to 12 people at a live show in Solapur in February, over jokes about the actor Veer Pahariya. He files a police complaint.Pahariya publicly condemned the attack and issued an apology.
- 2025Enters Bigg Boss 19 on 24 August, walks out on day 70, returns on day 75, and finishes as second runner up on 7 December.
- 2026Records Strong Vs Smart with Abhishek Bajaj in January, and appears before the National Commission for Women on 22 June over a crowd work clip that drew widespread criticism.
Who Pranit More is
Pranit More is a stand-up comedian who works in Marathi and Hindi and who came to national attention through Bigg Boss 19 rather than through comedy. That order matters. He had been performing for a decade, had two specials and a million subscribers, and was still, outside Maharashtra, a name that needed explaining. A reality show did in three months what ten years of clubs had not.[1][2]
His comedy is observational and built on class rather than on celebrity. The material comes from a middle class household in the Mumbai region, a father who worked on state transport buses, an MBA he did not want, and the small humiliations of an ordinary Indian childhood. He does characters, he does family, and he does the gap between what people say in public and what they say at home.[1][2]
He is also, by the record, a comedian who has been in the news for the wrong reasons twice in two years: an attack on him at a show in Solapur in 2025, and a crowd work clip of his in 2026 that drew criticism from other creators and ended with him before the National Commission for Women. Both are part of the public record now, and neither can be left out of an honest profile.[2]
Thane, Khed and a state transport household
More was born on 2 March 1991 in Thane, in the Mumbai metropolitan region, into a Maharashtrian family originally from Khed in Ratnagiri district. His father was a conductor with the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation. His mother ran the home. He has an elder brother, Prayag More.[2]
The Bharat Fast profile gives a different date of birth, 7 July 1991, and Mumbai as the birthplace. Both accounts agree on the essentials that matter, which are the region, the family's roots in Ratnagiri and the father's job, and this entry uses the Wikipedia date while noting that the two sources disagree.[1][2]
As a child he wanted to be a pilot, and the family's circumstances did not stretch to that. He moved towards academics instead, which in a household like his meant a professional degree. That is the background his stand-up keeps returning to, not as grievance but as the specific texture of a certain kind of Indian upbringing: the ambition that gets quietly replaced by a safer one.[2]
College, an MBA and a job at a car dealership
He took a Bachelor of Management Studies at K. J. Somaiya College in Mumbai and followed it with an MBA in marketing at the Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research. Between and around those degrees he worked as a sales assistant at an automobile showroom, a job he has described as the point at which he understood that a corporate routine was not going to hold him.[2]
The turn came at college, in the Canvas Laugh Club's Open Mic Maverick competition in 2013 and 2014, which he won. Winning an open mic in Mumbai is a small thing in the wider industry and a large thing for a student who has been testing jokes on classmates. It gave him a reason to keep going to open mics after the degree ended, which is the stage at which most people stop.[2]
The Bharat Fast profile adds that he began an aircraft maintenance engineering course and dropped out before business school, which fits the childhood ambition to fly but is not in the Wikipedia account. It is plausible and unconfirmed, so it is recorded here as a claim rather than as a fact.[1]
Four years at Radio Mirchi
In 2019 More joined Radio Mirchi as a radio jockey. He stayed until 2023. The job is the least visible part of his career and probably the most formative: a radio jockey talks for four hours a day to an audience whose reaction arrives as a number on a screen, which forces a performer to develop timing without laughter to lean on.[2]
The radio work also put him in front of live audiences as a host, including the Filmfare Awards Marathi. Hosting an awards night is a different discipline from a stand-up set: the material has to survive a room that is not there to see him, and it has to keep moving when a segment runs long.[1][2]
He left radio in 2023, the year his first special came out. The sequence is the ordinary one for an Indian comedian of his generation: open mics, then radio or television to pay the bills, then specials and touring, then leaving the day job once the touring covers the rent.[2]
The specials: Baap Ko Mat Sikha and Back Bencher
Baap Ko Mat Sikha, released in 2023, was his first full length stand-up special. The title translates as do not teach your father, and the set is built around generational difference: what a father of a certain age believes about work, money and respect, and what his son has learned instead. It was well received and it is the reason his name travels outside Maharashtra.[1][2]
Back Bencher followed in 2024 and took school as its subject, along with the way adults look back at it. Two specials in two years is fast for an Indian comedian working in two languages, and it established a rhythm: write a set, tour it, film it, release it, start again.[2]
The digital side of the career runs alongside the specials. His YouTube channel carries clips, sketches and crowd work, and his Instagram presence is split between a mainstream account and one built for Marathi speaking audiences. That split is deliberate and it is the reason he had a following in Maharashtra years before the rest of the country knew his face.[1]
Solapur, February 2025
In February 2025 More was assaulted by a group of 10 to 12 people during a live show in Solapur. The attack followed jokes he had made about the actor Veer Pahariya. He filed a police complaint, and the incident drew condemnation from across the comedy industry and from Pahariya himself, who distanced himself from the attackers and issued an apology.[2]
The episode became a reference point in the argument about what a comedian is allowed to say and who carries the risk when a joke lands badly. In the Indian context the answer has been consistent for a decade: the comedian carries it, in a hall, in front of an audience that has been drinking.[2]
He addressed it during his Bigg Boss introduction, saying that his humour was meant as entertainment and that he had come on the show to let people see him as a person rather than as a headline. That is the standard framing and, in his case, the accurate one: the Solapur attack was the first time most of the country heard his name.[1][2]
Bigg Boss 19: the walkout and the return
More entered Bigg Boss 19 on 24 August 2025 as one of the eighteen housemates on the premiere. His arrival was marked by a joke about avoiding material on Salman Khan to prevent a backlash, which was itself a reference to the reputation he had built roasting celebrities. Old clips of him mocking Khan resurfaced within days, and the two confronted each other during the first Weekend Ka Vaar.[2][3]
He then did something no other contestant of the season did. On day 70 he walked out of the house. Five days later, on day 75, he was back. The public record does not explain the exit in any detail, and the show did not set out a reason beyond his departure and return, so this entry does not supply one.[3]
What is documented is what happened after. He came back into a house that had spent five days without him and finished the season as second runner up on 7 December 2025, behind the winner Gaurav Khanna and ahead of Tanya Mittal, Amaal Mallik and the rest of a field that had been in the house since August.[3]
He also had one of the season's more consequential powers. On day 77, both Abhishek Bajaj and Neelam Giri left the house in an eviction the season page records as having been made by Pranit. A single housemate ending two other contestants' seasons in the same week is the kind of mechanic that reality shows build a week around, and it is the reason his own run is remembered beyond the finish.[3]
The crowd work clip and the National Commission for Women
In May 2026 an audience member named Himanshu Jangra made remarks during one of More's crowd work shows. More posted the clip and applauded the man. The response was severe: the remarks were widely described as misogynistic, and other creators, among them Kusha Kapila, Urfi Javed, Sakshi Shivdasani and Dolly Singh, criticised him publicly for amplifying them.[2]
He issued a public apology. On 22 June 2026 he appeared before the National Commission for Women along with Jangra and the comedian Madhur Virli. The episode is the second time in two years that a joke of his has moved from a club into an institution, and it has changed how his crowd work is covered: a segment that was once reported as a comedian handling a heckler is now reported as a risk.[2]
None of this has ended his career. He was working before the incident and he has continued to work after it, and the apology rather than a denial is what the record shows. It is still the part of his story that a reader arriving from Bigg Boss is least likely to know.[1][2]
What has not been confirmed
His date of birth is not settled between sources. Wikipedia gives 2 March 1991 in Thane; Bharat Fast gives 7 July 1991 in Mumbai. The month and the day differ outright, which suggests one of the two is simply wrong, and no interview this entry found has him confirming a date.[1][2]
The reason for his walkout on day 70 of Bigg Boss 19 has not been made public in terms that this entry can verify. Reports at the time speculated, the show did not explain, and he has not set out an account of it in the interviews that followed.[3]
His fee for the season, his net worth and his current relationship status are all unconfirmed. The earnings figures published for him are estimates built from assumed ticket sales and brand rates, and the profile that carries them labels them as such. His height is also a profile site number rather than something he has stated.
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