Samay Raina announces grand comeback with countrywide

Months after his YouTube talent show India’s Got Latent kicked up a controversy over YouTuber-podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia’s perceived distasteful ‘joke’, comedian Samay Raina has announced his comeback to the public domain with a stand-up comedy tour across India. Titled Samay Raina: Still Alive and Unfiltered, the India tour will commence on August 15, cleverly coinciding with Independence Day, and will go on till October 5, during which he will perform in major cities across the country.

This is Samay’s first tour since the India’s Got Latent controversy and subsequent legal cases against him. Announcing that tickets for the various legs of the tour are now available on the entertainment ticketing platform BookMyShow, he revealed that the tour will kick off in Bengaluru on August 15. He will then travel to Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Pune, before concluding the tour in New Delhi on October 5.