Mallika Dua (born 18 July 1989) is an Indian comedian, actress and writer. The comedian shot to fame with the viral video of Shit People Say: Sarojini Nagar Edition, which was written, styled and enacted by Dua herself. She is the daughter of Padma Shri recipient Indian journalist Vinod Dua.
Early life
Dua was schooled at the Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi. She is half-Saraiki and half-Tamil. The inspiration for her short videos on social media are from Delhi. She is also a theater major from Franklin and Marshall College in the US. Her advertising career started as a trainee at McCain Erickson and later at Contract Advertising. She said that studying was never her cup of tea. She has always been funny and notorious since childhood.
She was exposed to media early since her father, Vinod Dua is a veteran journalist and a consulting editor at The Wire. Her father insisted that she and her sister should train in classical music and she started her music lessons when she was four. But she also said that she never imagined music as her career.