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I know what you are thinking. Arre, Kangana Ranaut moti ho gayi hai? I get it all the time, Kangana, Kangana!. Then I check my bank balance. Aukat!,” says Anu Menon as she opens her first stand-up special, Wonder Menon, on Amazon Prime. The audience on the show responds with peals of laughter. Wonder Menon marks the full-fledged return of Anu Menon, otherwise is better known for her TV avatar Lola Kutty, to the screen. Menon as Kutty remains one of the most popular VJs on Channel V in the first decade of the 21st century.

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The hour-long act has Menon channeling her inner Wonder Woman. She is sporting a large cuff bracelet and gladiator sandals — in a nod to the eponymous superhero — and is in a blue tunic dress while addressing a packed hall in Bangalore. “I am glad you noticed,” says Menon over the phone. “ This stand up had been on the cards for a while. My management company had been after me to do something. One always works backwards from a deadline, or else you will keep procrastinating — oh I have to fetch my son, and do other boring chores— who wants to sit and write? We got this show on the floors last year, end of February,” says Menon.

The stand-up special has Menon meander over a range of issues, her own curly hair for starters. She says on the show, “But this Kangana Ranaut has really monopolised the curly hair market… I am willing to do everything that Kangana Ranaut rejects, including Hrithik Roshan,” says Menon with intense concern on her face, eliciting roars of laughter from the audience. Her “vegetarian Gujju husband”, her mother and mother-in-law, and how she deals with the other tiger and helicopter moms that are super active on whats app groups are featured prominently in the act. Her own community, the Malyalis, is also at the receiving end of many a one liner. “All of these things have happened to me personally in some capacity or the other. I always believe that joke telling is in some way truth telling. Either the public will relate to it, or it will be so beyond their frame of context that they will find it funny. You either sympathise or empathise. Everyone has a different route to humour. I believe that if you just pander to what you think will work, the falsehood of it will come across and it wont ring true,” adds Menon.

There are digs at Shashi Tharoor and “his favourite book, The Oxford English Dictionary”; Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, and at the same time there are references to Yashraj, sarson ke khet and others. “Yes I am all over the place. But, seriously speaking, many of them are throwaways. I admire political comedians, for I know that I can never be that. I am not so inclined. I only did what seemed to ring true,” says Menon. And yes,Read More – Source