Stand up comedian Munawar Faruqui carried out his show ‘Dongri to Nowhere’ at Shilpakala Vedika on Saturday night to loud cheers and catcalls from the viewers. A dragnet of police presence from early hours across the venue, intense frisking and profiling ensured that there was no disruption to the show regardless of a risk by Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Raja Singh. However, there have been seven makes an attempt to boost slogans, together with by a lady, on the principle highway exterior the venue and the miscreants had been bundled away by ready policemen.
Hundreds of policemen guarded the venue in a 200-metre radius, as police sirens wailed intermittently. Traffic below the HiTec City flyover was stopped for a while simply earlier than the start of the show at 5.30 p.m. including to night weekend rush hour within the western a part of town.
Police arrest the protestors exterior Shilpakala Vedika venue of programme by stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui in Hyderabad on Saturday.
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While Faruqui’s Bengaluru show on August 19 was cancelled, the Hyderabad programme was offered out on the 2100-seater venue. “There were no religious jokes. Some jokes were political and we had a good laugh,” stated Sayeeda, a resident of Moghalpura who watched the show together with her mom. Some members of the viewers felt that the jokes had been repeated from his earlier 2019 show within the metropolis. “I had fun. I am surprised that there was so much misinformation about the show,” stated Muhammad Ruman, a pupil who got here from Toli Chowki to look at it together with his good friend.
Faruqui, winner of 2022-Lock Upp, has needed to face a sequence cancellation of his exhibits throughout the nation.
The occasion in Hyderabad acquired the next profile after Faruqui thanked IT Minister Ok.T. Rama Rao for the invitation: “Taking up on your kind invitation @KTRTRS Sir.” Mr. Rao invited Faruqui to carry out within the metropolis after a sequence of his occasions had been cancelled below stress from proper wing teams.
“This is just routine bandobust. Nothing out of ordinary happened today. We are used to this,” stated a police official at eight p.m. after the tip of the show.