Mudasir Farooq
| Mudasir Farooq | |
|---|---|
 Mudasir Farooq | |
| Born | March 25, 1993 Mudasir Farooq |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
| Other names | Mudasir Farooq |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | Indian |
| 💼 Occupation | Youtuber |
| 📆 Years active | 2021 |
| 🏡 Home town | Sopore, Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
| Height | 5.5 ft (170 cm) |
| Title | Youtuber |
Mudasir Farooq is known as a YouTuber; he was born in 1993. He is a 29-year-old who comes from a middle-class family. Mudasir Farooq, also known as Koshur Kalakar, is a Kashmiri YouTube sensation who is garnering praise and acclaim across Kashmir for his video sketches.
In the age of content creators, where many people present their talent and creativity through social media, Mudasir Farooq is one such content creator and social media influencer from the Kashmir Valley who presents social issues with infotainment.
Early life and Education
Mudasir Farooq is also known as an Indian famous YouTuber. He is an influencer in social media.
Career
After completing studies in Mass Communication and Journalism from Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar, 29-year-old Mudasir Farooq was selected by a US-based multinational photo and video editing company - Pixopal – as a project manager in Pune in 2016.
In 2018, when he visited Kashmir for vacation, an incident happened at a barber shop which prompted him to make videos and upload them on social media.
Recalling the incident at the barber shop, he said, “Two persons screamed at each other while discussing a cricket match, and people thought they would never talk to each other because of the exchange of indecent words. But after a few minutes, a funny video played on a phone by another person in the shop made everyone laugh, and they started talking again, surprising everyone.”
“I felt that there was some positive result from this funny video content, and I understood comedy is a very powerful tool. This event inspired me to create content on social media,” he said.
After this incident, Farooq started researching the various aspects of content creation. In 2018, he uploaded his first video content on Facebook, for which he received 100,000 views, which encouraged him to continue, and his journey of content creation began.
“Later, in March 2019, I started uploading video content on YouTube, and now I am active on both social networking sites,” he said, adding, “I have around 79 million views of my videos on Facebook and around 51 million views on YouTube to date.”
Kashur Kalakaar is making content with a focus on social issues like late marriages, deforestation, pollution, neighbourhood issues, and the drugs menace.
“For a drug awareness campaign, we sponsored one local cricket team from Sopore named 11 Willows. The main focus is to encourage more people to indulge in sports,” he said.
Farooq says that giving some message through comedy is an art, and now they only focus on discussion of social issues.
He says that those who want to become content creators should learn the techniques first and then only start uploading content on the internet.
About his upcoming videos, he said, “I have written four web series that I will release soon when I feel the audience is ready. I have written web series on college life, drugs, and other topics. It will be a long-format web series.”
When asked about his favourite YouTuber, he said, “Salil Jamdhar is my favourite, whom I follow the most because his way of presentation is different and full of creativity.”
The equipment Farooq uses while making videos is the Canon 5D camera with 24-105 and 50mm lenses, a gimbal, rig, tripod, and monopod, a dual-channel wireless mic, a chroma key, and lights, a stand, reflector, diffuser, and other equipment.
While sharing his struggle, he said that no one helped him in the beginning of his content creation journey.
