 Thanks for having me here. No, no. God wanted you to be here. You know how this happened. So how many of you know about him beyond his pummy auntie of caste? You know what he does for a living in real life, apart from being pummy auntie? Does anybody know? So he runs his pharmaceutical business, which his father started. It's a business of raw materials for pharmaceutical. He's an entrepreneur. Now, he's a production company. He's an entertainer. He's an entrepreneur. So when you've done everything, is there something left to be done? You're popular, famous. You make people smile. Is there something left? Is there a bucket list you have in 2020? Yes. I think so bucket list helps me going on in my life. I still have to stop the road. Maybe one day, Sumira Pummy Auntie, interviewing you at this prestigious platform, maybe. Typical Punjabi from Delhi. Typical. You can steal from others. Yes, of course. I eat that food. Look, I'm eating it right now. So what is left to be done? I mean, generally, you achieve a lot. Well, there's always a scope to progress in life. As you just mentioned, I'm working on my own productions now, hope to make it big. I want to come up with a nice talk show where I can possibly invite the best of all the streams. I'm not saying just the Bollywood. But maybe I would love to interview some of the greatest politicians we have now, or probably a chef, maybe a dancer, maybe a comedian, on different level, and get into the insight of their life. That's how I was. Who would you want to be interviewed? Tell me top five guests on your show. Mr. Rishi Kapoor, reason, great fan. And it's his one tweet, actually, some people know, or may not know, changed my life. Because when Mr. Rishi Kapoor tweeted about Famiyanth, that's how the media attention came to me. So he has a big hand in my Famiyanthi success. Definitely him. I would actually love to interview Vikas Kannadasha, great admirer, being a Punjabi, of course. Another person I would love to interview in my list if I may name the dead people. If I can, I would love to interview Mr. Sushma Saraj for sure. And what would you have asked her? What would I have asked her? Well, going back then, when she was there, the kind of situation we were in, I would have asked her in a very Famiyanthi style, Deshda ki Banega hon penji. But she was one of the best foreign ministers we had. So I think so, we could have connected a lot on issues over in India issues. And I would love to interview who else? Maybe Singer, like Diljit Dasan, or something, who have made it from nowhere. I always say there are people who get famous, but they have the people who don't know their success story from where they come or from where they're right. And their struggles. Their struggles. I want to focus on their struggles rather than what they are now. Yeah. In Delhi, there is a famous thing I use all the time. A lot of people in Delhi are famous for being famous. They've actually achieved nothing. But that's another conversation. Thanks for the social media. Yes. You know, tell me top five things that have had influence on your life. You know, let's say five moments you, five conversations you remember. There are five defining moments in your life. If you had to put them like that. The five moments of my personal life would be, you know, when I stepped out of school, I had this thing. You know, when you're in school, you're one of the most famous of the school. And You know, you got pretty famous for it. That's inheritable. But when you say one school, you have the top of the sets. I want my children to go there. But my wife, where she lives, she goes there. Well, at the end of the day, yeah, once I stepped out of school, Being the most famous kid or the most talented kid of the school, I thought the dose will be very easy. All the universities will be, or everybody will be like, hey Sumi, please come in a university and blah blah blah. By the way, I didn't do tell the university. Reason, what happened? Not because my whole focus was curricula, not the exams, and that time my dad, the best thing he used to say like, inshaan a chhe bano, namro ka kuch zhada hai nahi, because, and that's why I think so this whole board exam thing comes from the experience which I have learned in my life. You need to work hard to achieve where you are. I don't have any parents. Is it inshaan bano or nambar matlao? Nambar matlao. Nambar. It sounds really bold today. You don't have to speak for that, you have to do it. If you are going to speak, maybe you will. But you know somebody was asking me, there's a PR agency owner, she was in our list and she has a three year old daughter and she was asking me what's cool. And I told her, this is are you happy with your kid's cool? I said there's no parent in Delhi who's happy with it. Any school their kid go to. But very frankly, the kids are not happy with any school nowadays. The parents and the social status has so much with the think, our kid is going to school instead of actually thinking about what kids are going through. So my kids are very happy with the school they go to and I like to believe they are well rounded. But home is a school, so my wife is of the credit but that's not a topic. So five top. One is the father told you that it's better to be a better human being, then go after mom. Yes, don't go after mom. Later I realized that I was very a small fish in that big ocean, created by myself that I'm the best. Of course, later I got to know there is a lot outside the world. Second communication was my dad rather the miscommunication because me and my dad never actually were on the same line when it comes to business. I think so that's another conversation. When he actually said, okay, when you quit business or leave the house, then you will know what you are like. So that is one of the conversations I will always remember. And with connect to this same information conversation, I think so in 96 when I was in Los Angeles, I wanted to buy one cologne. I don't remember the name. And my cousin there, unknowingly that this conversation might change my life or might affect me so much. She's like, why are you buying this cologne? I'm like, because I like it. She's like it for $104 in 93. I'm like, so what? I have money. She's like, did you earn it? I don't know why it just hit me so hard. And I'm like, I have to make my own identity. And from there, the whole game changed in my life. And you didn't listen to your father's voice initially. You left India, started in Australia. Then you made the choice to come back. Your father is in heaven now. Yep. And Pummy Hunt, he happened in 2015. 2016. 2016. And that changed your life. Now we're at a communication conference. And the title of the session was comedy communication and change. You think you're doing social messaging all the time and engineering a change to your communication if you take your act to be communication? Yes. I think so when you come to a certain stage, whether you're doing comedy or you're on any platform, it is the duty if you can get that change in the society from your whether it's a comedy way or the serious way, not just the comedy. And comedy does play an important role in this stuff because I guess we all are so tired nowadays just looking at the serious stuff on any of your social media. For me, it's like, oh, I already know this. But the moment comedy comes, you listen. You're like, oh, yes. He said the right thing in a very light way and does make an effect. I think so that's where I like getting into comedy more sarcastic way or that way, yes. So tell us some funny moments that have happened because of Pummy Aunty. I know it caught you to fame. You're popular as a corrector and people know you now. But there are some of the funny things that have happened because of Pummy Aunty. I wish you were with us. I actually get... Pummy Aunty has two kids, not mine. But yes, I do get messages on social media that, Sumira, I wish you were my son. And I'm like, are you serious? They think Pummy Aunty is a very funny and very nice lady and it is funny to have a lady like that. But let me just tell you, she's the most hypocrite lady and she's the most kapati saas you can ever get in your life. So never wish for Pummy Aunty to be the saas like that because Pummy has been trained by her saas and what Pummy now does, she has been the victim of that. That's how Pummy is now. So how much of it is growing up in Delhi and seeing people around you and how much is it research, the Pummy Aunty that comes on the screen? What Pummy Aunty you see on screen is from the observation I do around. For example, if I sit with you for a long time maybe you will come up with some story of your house. I'll quietly listen. Ah, this story is a little bit like Pummy Aunty's Masala. Maybe from my past, maybe the way my dad used to... You live in Bombay, so how does the Delhi Pummy Aunty come to Bombay? Pummy goes anywhere. But yes, I have an influence. I'm a hardcore Punjabi and I have an influence from Delhi a lot. I've been born in Delhi and I've seen people like Pummy Aunty around me. My nanka is from Amritsar. So when you hear Pummy Aunty's total Amritsari Aunty talking and nagging about small, small issues about life, yes. You know, you're a product of social media. We are in a communication conference. I keep reiterating that. And social media is very important in today's scenario both for listening and for dissemination. But, I mean, it's like a double-edged sword. What is your view on social media? And a candid one at that. I'm a by-product of social media now. But very frankly, a somewhat similar question was asked to me by BBC World People came and they asked, what if social media is nowhere now? Or what if they start hiding the likes? They had this thing going on in other countries. I like it. That will be the best thing that can happen. You know, I always thought social media was the platform to showcase your talent or put your view across. But it has become such a big competition now. It's become a show-off like from that. Show-off plus it has become a stress. If today I put a picture with Mr. Anurag Badra, my whole focus, whole day, will be, how many likes I have. I'll give you. Instead of... I'm quite sure I'll give you that. But the whole thing of being in a competition of how many likes I have, I think so that's what the new generation, some of them have become self-acclaimed bloggers who nobody cares about. And they don't know anything about anything. Exactly. So I think so this whole thing has become overhyped. The best thing social media has happened, yes you have a voice, you can put it across wherever, but people are using it very unprofessional way and not good way. And I am totally against that. No. As I started, you know, comedy, communication, change, social messaging. If Pummy aunty had to do something, some of the current issues, can you do a Pummy aunty for us? Example, take on same sex, or cab, or Donald Trump, Boris Johnson. I have talked about these things, but just for instance, I had this take about Khanda Penji da Munda Gaye Haga. So if I may just... What's your name, Khanna ji? So there was this... When section 377... So Khanda Penji was very... Upset. Upset, he is his son Gaye. So my duty from a social message or something, I did like, Khanda Penji, what's up? What? What are you talking about? I want to call you. So Pummy calls Malhotra Penji because she loves to gossip. Malhotra Penji, Khanda Penji da Munda Gaye, Karamayi toot gaye hain. Yes, yes. Penji two days, married the first two days, said Gaye Haga, Penji da Munda Gaye, what do you think? And I know after a long time, Penji, five years ago, I understood that when my son got married to me, I said, Aunty, the diamond da set is very good. Penji, I understood that he is a good son. Penji, he is very good. Nowadays, there is nothing like that. He should be thankful that he is a good son. Tomorrow, he will not come, he will not wear clothes, he will not wear jewelry, he will not be there, he will talk about life. So in a funny way, I actually said that it's totally okay if your son is gay, totally okay. Just embrace it, love your child the way they are. And respect the differences in my personal story. I have a friend in heaven, he is American, he was American, and he died one and a half years back when he was four of cancer. And he was gay. I went to his wedding in Istanbul, and I cried at the wedding and I realized, you know, they have the same feelings for their partner, like we have. So I am more sensitive and respect the differences. What do you have to say on cap? You were listening to the last panel. Well, very frankly, if you ask Sume, as Sume, as Sume, as Sume, as Sume is still very confused with what is happening in the world, I actually posted on social media where people started trolling me for that, which is perfectly when that's part and parcel. Because a lot is being said from various sources and it is actually creating the confusion. But if you ask Pummi aunty, always, she will have a very different take. She will like, she will like, she will like, she will like, she will like, she will like, she will like, she will like, she will like, she will like, she will like, she will like, she will like, She has never asked any切, I will actually ask her that is why she is like she will like, she will like it, there is always a lot of people who think they are being grown up with what they want. All right, she will like, she will like, Sume will like it, Sume will like her, she will like, if that so So many people are there in different countries, but it's okay when your own people are there in different countries sitting illegal, sitting on their tax money, but when it is happening in your country, and when the government wants them to go or something, they are like, it's not like that. So I think so, Pummy has her own take and I still very confused. And my last, what would Pummy aunty say on Donald Trump? Donald Trump and Pummy's daughter are different from each other. So why, can't you enact that for us? Well, okay. Hi, sweet team. I'm also saying that today. Nice. And those of you who know Punjabi, please get a crash course and we'll call him next year. But my last question, we'll get the audience to come in to keep to our time. If there's one message that you'd say to the people running this country, what would that be? And if one message to all the citizens of the country and the people in this audience, what would that be? Since it's a communication concern going on. I'll focus when Mr. Goddard was here, I think to the very right points were taken. Communication is very essence in today's time because lots of information is being misled. Lots of rumors are there. I think to the government, if they would have communicated certain things very clearly without confusion, what might happen, what might not happen, the things would have been totally different. It's all about communication and that's what I say today also if Mr. Narendra Modi or anybody from the party or they come on record and clear things because there is a lot of misinformation going on. I think things will be much different and I trust our whole country that people are there to listen. If there is something wrong, they will totally follow whatever is right for the country. I told you last but I won't ask you, so much negativity. What is positive in the environment? Does Pummy aunty see any positivity in the environment? Frankly, no. Frankly, no. I don't. That's a very candid and honest answer because Pummy aunty is some reflection of his own beliefs having grown up in India. When you have to think twice, when you have to... Again, I'll still blame the social media. There are sometimes days when I don't open my Facebook, I'm at peace. Because the moment you open Facebook, there is a lot happening in the country. So, when you say ignorance is a bliss, this is the situation right now. Nobody in Delhi knows what is happening in the country. When you want to be totally informed, you should know what is happening in the country. But at times it's like, you know what? If I'm a very simple middle class person, trust me, I just want to live my life at peace, get my basic rights, the best air possible if India can provide it. 20 years ago, life was very easy to live in India. That's what every generation thinks, but life is a complicated life. But it can be made simple. On this note, if there are questions in the audience, we can take the two questions. If there are no questions, I will ask one last question and wrap up. Any questions anybody has for Mr. Pasrecha or Pummy aunty? No questions. In school? Okay. There's a gentleman here, I don't know him. Yes, sir. Tell us, give us your name and what do you do? Hi, I'm Siddharth from Tadapar. I'm having communications at Tadapar, Delhi. I have one question for you. Often we have seen people from all walks of life, they enter into politics. What to take on people from the entertainment, especially from the comedy side, to enter into politics? Because I believe that they can… Your voice is not there because I don't know about it. Why are you asking him really, enter politics? I just want to know. So where would you want to be the next Chief Minister of Delhi? Never. Never? I'm very happy as an entertainer. No, Delhi Chief Minister is an entertainer too. No, he is an entertainer. He's a different level entertainer. I'm a very happy spirit right now. But I don't think so. I'm capable enough. I'm very good at pointing what is wrong in the country like we all have. But I think so when you actually get in that job, it is very difficult because there's lots of loopholes going on in the city and the country today. It's easy to say that I'm not Anil Kapoor of the movie who took that oath and became the Chief Minister. But I will not enter politics, though I have been approached by lots of political parties to campaign for that. But I like to stay. I'm very happy in my simple space. Fantastic. Yes sir. Rajiv, Mike to Rajiv Malik. Sir, my question to you is that when we have seen Pammi aunty so fondly but now seeing you in this beard is a bit of a shock. Pammi aunty is also a bit of a shock. But it is not that distinct as this. So how do you live in anonymity? Are you sometimes dressed up like Pammi aunty so that people become like this? Sir, I don't live in anonymity I think. So that was my very first focus from day one when I started Pammi aunty that people should know the man behind Pammi aunty. Is there a neighbor behind Pammi aunty? Yes, the man behind Pammi aunty. So that was very from day one. And I only dress up as Pammi aunty when I see there is something important to be said. Do you think I can ever be Pammi aunty? Trust me, all men are Pammi aunty. Everybody consists in Delhi. Trust me, all men are Pammi aunty. We just deny. I am very upset with you. I am very upset with you. In Punjabi. We will go protest against you. I will hold my protest against you for calling all men Pammi aunty. It would rather be a very peaceful protest. I will not stop you against the protest you can. So yes sir, I only dress up as Pammi aunty when I get a very happy amount. If Mr. Nurag Patra would have said to me, come up, dress up as Pammi. I would have loved to do that. But he asked to meet me. Yes. Any other questions? You can call it today. Last question to my friend there. Tell him what you do and he runs an architecture firm. Wow. He lives in India. He is American. Thank you. My name is Scott and my question is about this comedy. In America we have two programs, The Daily Report, The Daily Show and a few other comedians tell the news. And one of the things I found is you hear more truth in the comedic news than you hear on the regular news. And you have the same thing here. So he is saying we hear more truth on the comedy shows daily than we do on news TV. Is that what you say Scott? Right. Isn't it the best thing? Maybe the news channels are totally governed by the political parties maybe at times. They have fear that their channels might be banned but as a comedian I have nothing to lose, sir. I think so. We all need such people in life, in our country to speak the truth. We had R.K. Lachman in long time. I always find him as my role model. If my small little voice can create a difference well and good. Otherwise I still say my heart in a very light way as far as people understand. By the same corollary, I hope there is some comedy on news channels. I am not referring to any news channels except for your imagination. But there is some comedy on news channels. Like there is some serious news and truth on comedy shows. I think the corollary is true for India in a reverse way. They are really sad with it. But give Mr. Kumar Paspecha a big round of applause. Thank you for communicating the social message you do and entertaining it. God bless you.