Mubeen Saudagar

Mubeen Saudagar is a stand-up comedian, mimicry artist and actor whose voice most Indian households have heard without ever matching it to a face. Ask a child who Honey and Bunny are and they will sing the theme back at you — both those voices, along with Zordaar, Popat and several others in Sony YAY!'s Honey Bunny Ka Jholmaal, are his. So is every character in the Hindi dub of Oggy and the Cockroaches, commentary included.

The route there ran through stages, not studios. He built his act at social and cultural functions, doing impressions for rooms that had come for something else. The turn came on the sets of Johnny Aala Re, where he met Johnny Lever, who sent him to an audition — and the audition put him on the show.

Television took it from there. Laughter Ke Phatke, Comedy Champions, Pehchan Kaun, Yeh Chanda Kanoon Hai, Comedy Circus, Comedy Classes, Comedy Nights Bachao, and from 2021 the Zee Comedy Show — the circuit where a mimicry artist either has range or is found out within one episode. He is credited with impressions of more than 150 actors. In 2024 he stepped in front of the camera again as Sunil in Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video.

These days most of that lands online. MG Content Studio, the channel he co-runs with Gaurav Dubey, has grown past 1.2 million subscribers on YouTube, and the format is unmistakable: sixty seconds of Bollywood nostalgia, a legend's voice dropped into today's headlines. Rajesh Khanna on sugar prices. Mithun announcing he is back. A nineties superstar reacting to something that happened this week.

Add 213K on Instagram and the audience across platforms is about 1.4 million — mostly Hindi-speaking, raised on the films he impersonates, and there for the punchline rather than the product. For a brand, that is a rare combination: a performer with decades of range who can carry a message in someone else's voice and still make it land as comedy.