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If Kundan Shah was on stage today, he would be number one stand up comic: Vidhu Vinod Chopra

We won't know how unfulfilled or fulfilled Kundan felt with his life, Vidhu Vinod Chopra writes about Kundan Shah.

I met Kundan at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune. We were in the same class, one that included Saeed Mirza and Ravi Ojha. Kundan was very unassuming, extremely simple and hugely talented. He didn't talk much, but when he did, it was mostly funny. If

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