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Prajakta Koli

MostlySane

Subscribers : 5.88 million

Best known for: Being the first Indian content creator to have her own YouTube Originals, Pretty Fit

Coming up Mismatched(Netflix)

Varun Thakur

Subscribers 259,000

Best known for The Adventures of Struggling Actor Vicky Malhotra

Coming up Bhaag Beanie Bhaag(Netflix)

Bhuvan Bam

BB Ki Vines

Subscribers: 19.7 million

Best known for: Portraying self-created characters, like Bancho, Titu Mama, Angry Masterji and Mr Hola

Coming Up Dhindora

Shirley Setia

Subscribers 3.61 million

Best known for Covers of Hindi songs sung by male artists including Tum Se Hi, Sanam Re

Coming up Nikamma

Until June 2020, Prajakta Koli was best known as the funny woman behind MostlySane, one of the more popular YouTube channels in India, and an influencer who, as part of YouTube Originals, a short in which Koli demonstrated that her thespian talent went beyond comedy. On November 20, Koli’s first big project, web series , an adaptation of Sandhya Menon’s book , released on Netflix. Currently, she is in Chandigarh shooting for her Bollywood debut, , a Dharma Production, also starring Anil Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Neetu Singh and Kiara Advani. “I’m 100 per cent aware that I wouldn’t have any of this if it wasn’t for my YouTube channel,” says Koli. “I can’t ever quit making videos.” That explains why Koli, while shooting for in Jodhpur, made trips to Mumbai and used her free time to continue uploading content on MostlySane. “I take pride in the fact that in over five and a half years I have never missed a video day,” she says.

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