Open a newspaper. Check the markets. Read about another war. Open your inbox and discover that AI can apparently do your job now. 2026 has been a lot. So FilterCopy Comedy has decided to do the only sensible thing left: laugh at it.
Hahakaar, a new two-day comedy festival from FilterCopy, takes over Mumbai’s Mukesh Mills on December 12–13, 2026, bringing together 30+ comedians, three comedy stages, games, food, pop-ups, experiences, a sea-facing hangout and an afterparty. Tickets are live on District.
The comedian may be why you buy the ticket. At Hahakaar, they are only the beginning.
The lineup includes Harsh Gujral, Munawar Farooqui, Aakash Gupta, Biswa Kalyan Rath, Manhar Seth, Atul Khatri, Aadar Malik, Rohit Shah, Prashasti Singh, Shreeja Chaturvedi, Sapan Verma, Urooj Ashfaq, Gurleen Pannu, Onkar Yadav and Shreya Priyam Roy, alongside emerging comedians and surprise appearances.
But Hahakaar is deliberately not built like a conventional stand-up show.
Every year seems to find increasingly inventive ways of giving people bad news. Markets fall. Wars start. Jobs disappear. Technology tells us it can replace us. Phones make sure we know about all of it before breakfast.
Most of that is beyond anyone’s control. Being able to laugh at it isn’t.
For one weekend, that is the proposition of Hahakaar: if everything is going to descend into chaos anyway, we may as well organise some of it.
The entire Mukesh Mills becomes the festival.
Grand Stand is home to the headline acts. Sucky Naka moves comedy indoors with intimate sets, surprise performances and live internet formats. Nahi-Mann Point brings improv, open mics, emerging comics, conversations and surprise drops into the mix.
Away from the stages, Marine Dine offers a sea-facing space to eat and drink, Get-Away-of-India brings games into the festival, while Chor Bizarre, Crawfood Market and MalaBAR Chill add pop-ups, installations, food and places to hang out.
And on Saturday night, the festival keeps going with Chowparty, Hahakaar’s official afterparty.
Siddharth Anand Kumar, Executive Vice President – Films & Events, Saregama, said, “Comedy is often experienced as a sit-down experience in an auditorium as individual artist shows. With Hahakaar, we wanted to make the comedian the starting point, not the entire experience. The idea was to build a celebration around comedy, where audiences can discover new acts, explore different formats, play, eat, and keep experiencing the festival beyond the main stage.”
Across eight zones and two days, Hahakaar brings together big-stage comedy, emerging talent, internet culture, games, food, nightlife and the peculiar madness of Mukesh Mills.
