Salil Jamdar

Artist Biography

His parody channel on YouTube has over a million views. Salil Jamdar’s spoof videos have made him a social media star, but he calls his journey “a backbencher’s success story”.

If things fell into place according to his academic plans, Salil Jamdar would have been an IIT graduate. But when his IIT dream didn’t work out, he settled for an engineering course at KJ Somaiya College, Vidyavihar. However, he was far from happy. It didn’t take him long to figure out engineering wasn’t something he was passionate about. After graduation, he was placed at TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) but survived only a few months there.

Today, the Thane boy is the face of Shudh Desi Gaane, a YouTube channel that spoofs Bollywood songs. When we meet him at Mamagoto in Andheri (W), he seems rather conscious. This is his fourth interview, he says, and he keeps his answers short.

“I used to be a geek at school. But I became a backbencher during college, and my creative juices started to flow. Thank god for that,” he laughs.

After his short stint at TCS, Jamdar enrolled for an acting course at Whistling Woods. Along with acting skills, he also picked up mannerisms of popular actors like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan.

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Salil Jamdar (1)