Stand-up mom | In a conversation on her new book ‘This American Woman’ with comedian Zarna Garg

Comedian Zarna Garg gargs her new book, ‘This American Woman: One-in-Billion Memorial’

I am very American now, I have not only opinions, I mash them! “In the recent episode of Talk Show, Comedian Zarna Garg announces, Late night with Seth MayorsGarg’s observation about Indian immigrant life in the US is setting up a unique brand of comedy social media ablass. From the jokes of Indian mother -in -law to carrying hot, a kurta with a belt and matching salwar, Garg, 50, never misses a beet in his statement from her statement from jokes to the parenting hot.

“When I am on stage, people call me a joke machine gun,” she tells me on a zoom call. It is close to midnight in America, but Garg is going away, about the start of Hollywood last year, its upcoming show, and most especially, his recent memoir, This American woman (Published by Penguin Random House).

The title, she says, both in their family are an indication for a moving joke, where he was often labeled as ‘American’ to speak his mind, as well as a bid to be reliable to an international audience. In addition, she takes a pinch, “I do not actually join with the titles that a lot of Indian writers write,” saying that there is no dear mango tree or courtyard since her childhood that she could refer to in the title. “I have never seen a guava tree [growing up]I have no idea that if guava grows on a tree. ,

Dating tips and marriage

The book reflects Garg’s personality; It is an easy read read packed with anecdotes from the writer’s life and is recited in a converted tone. Garg says that she was for the book “to feel that you are interacting with a friend”.

Each chapter takes a part of Garg’s journey – from growing up in a rich house in India to leaving home at the age of 14 when her mother faced the possibility of marriage after untimely death, to go to America at the age of 17 to start life. After getting married and living in a three -year -old house, Garg attacked Gold at the age of 44 as a standup comic. “There was a whole story chap in every chapter. The way this book is written, no one chapter can be a TV show, a film,” Garg said, which is also associated with a family-operated podcast, where he connects everything, which he joins with everything.

There is a part of the memoir that has gone viral where Garg shared how he posted an advertisement online (when the Internet was starting to rule our lives) to find a life partner. And her request for possible suits to include “her most recent tax returns and medical records”, captured the look of 27 -year -old husband Shalabh.

Ask him what she advises to single people at the age of dating apps, and Garg is in a hurry to say that he should have a list of three main beliefs and no more. In his own case, Garg says, “If things do not work with my husband … then I am going in search of a billionaire with a heart disease.”

Is India stuck in the past?

On the work front, Garg’s second comedy special, Practical people winIn July, Hulu and Gehotstar will be out. His first, One of one billionAmazon is available on Prime and has been reviewed, although a part of the audience complains that its comedy dissects an India “which has moved forward”. Garg begs to separate. “I think modern Indians have moved forward. But India is a bigger country than 5-10% of urban India.” She says, “In my estimate, no country has changed so much. It is not just India, even America, if anything, can be a little less in the last few years.”

Zarna Garg still with actor Harish Patel (left) from the film ‘A. Nice Indian Boy’.

Last year, she played a mother in an Indian immigrant family in director Roshan Sethi’s romantic comedy A good Indian boyWhich was a premiere in the south by the Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. The film appreciated his heartfelt performance of its lead, in which Garg was called “A. Delight”. Above is based on his life, built by Mindy Kalinga and Kevin Heart.

But Garg, who says that she grew up on a stable literary diet of Anid Belleton, Jeffrey Archer and Sydney Sheldon, is also in the process of keeping a motivational title together with her second book – mom twist, “because a lot of inspiration books in Bookstore are very businessman … and I think Mommy is very inspired every day. There is no debate with that argument, whether in India or America

The author is a Delhi -based literary critic and research scholar.