Ankita Shrivastav

Born

1991-05-25

Birthplace

Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Biography

Ankita is a leading female comic in India. She is @filmychokri on YouTube and Instagram. Her YouTube channel has close to 15 Million views. She has featured in over 100 commercials for major brands like Dairy Milk, Dominos, LG, Tata Sky and New York Life Insurance to name a few. She will be seen next in LOL, Hasse Toh Phasse, a comedy series on Amazon Prime, along with some of India's biggest comics. Her first stand up video "Bombay Girls, Local Trains" was a viral hit garnering over 4 million views. Ankita has a unique voice - telling stories that resonate with young Indians in metros as well as small towns. She is now known as the "Ladki, jise attention bilkul pasand nahi hai" - a line from her first stand-up video that touched a chord with her viewers. She creates and plays characters such as Billo Rani and Natasha, both of them are popular on her Instagram channel. As an actor, she played the role of Sarabjit's daughter in the film, 'Sarabjit', alongside Randeep Hooda and Aishwarya Rai Bachhan. In theater she acted in a ninety minute English monologue "An Unposted Love Letter", written by Nobel Laurette Doris Lessing. Her performance received rave reviews by the audience and critics.