Vikas Jayaram Fhatak popularly known as Hindustani Bhau (born 7 August 1983) is an Indian Youtuber, TikTok star, social media influencer and humanitarian who is known his infamous style of nagging people who stand against India or Indian culture. He has 532k followers on Instagram and 1.09M subscribers on YouTube.
Early life
Bhau was born and brought up in Mumbai into a Maharashtrian family in 1983. He attended in St. Andrew’s High School in Mumbai until 7th standard and deliberately left the study to support his family after his father lost the job. He is married and currently lives in Mumbai with his parents, wife Ashwini Fhatak and son.[1]
Career
He started his career at a very young age. After dropping out the school he worked as a ball boy in Khar Gymkhana where he used to earn ₹20 a day and was also selling incense sticks on the train. He started making videos after the Pulwama terror attacks in February 2019 and became popular in the Indian audience after his video "Pehli Fursat Mein Nikal" went viral and was used by many to create dramatic memes.[2] Apart from being a YouTuber, he also works as a News Reporter at "Daksh Police Times", a local newspaper in Mumbai. In 2011, he was also awarded the "Best Chief Crime Reporter" in Mumbai.[3] He also founded "Aditya Yuva Pratishthan" an NGO which is named after his son and also a member of "Sankalp Yuva Pratishthan".[4]
- Bigg Boss 13
Bhau participated Bigg Boss season 13 and entered the house on day 36 as a wildcard contestant and was evicted on the day 78.[5]
References
- ↑ MumbaiNovember 25, Indo-Asian News Service; November 25, 2019UPDATED:; Ist, 2019 12:30. "Bigg Boss 13: Hindustani Bhau's wife files complaint against fake family members". India Today. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
{{cite web}}:|first2=has generic name (help);|first3=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ World, Republic. "Bigg Boss 13: All about Hindustani Bhau; the new entrant in BB house". Republic World. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
- ↑ "Hindustani Bhau कभी वेटर का काम कर चलाते थे घर, आज हर महीने कमा रहे इतनी बड़ी रकम". Jansatta. 4 June 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
- ↑ "Bigg Boss 13: Hindustani Bhau, Keshari Lal and Tehseen Poonawala enter as wild cards". 27 October 2019. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
- ↑ "Hindustani Bhau gets evicted from Bigg Boss 13". 15 December 2019. Retrieved 2021-02-12.