Mostly Sane | Prajakta koli

Mostly Sane 

Prajakta koli aka Mostly Sane

YouTube fan-base in India: The “MostlySane” Prajakta Koli

Biography :

Full name Prajakta Koli

 

Nickname Praju

Date of Birth June 23, 1993

Age 27

Birthplace Mumbai,    Maharashtra, India

Hometown Mumbai,    Maharashtra, India

Profession YouTuber, Social Influencer & Comedian

Boyfriend Vrishank Khanal

Religion Hinduism 

Zodiac sign Cancer

Prajakta Koli is an Indian YouTuber who makes comedy videos. She is well known for her Youtube channel name i.e "MostlySane". Her videos are focused mostly on observational comedy related to daily life situations.

 

At 25, the chirpy girl-next-door from Mumbai, Prajakta Koli, is living a ‘fairy tale’. “I have never been happier. A few years ago, all this was beyond her wildest imagination — her first show as a radio jockey, a dream she had harboured all her life, had failed miserably in 2014-15.

Tuning in

As a child, Koli loved visiting her grandparents in Mulund. They had a clunky, old-fashioned transistor on which they heard FM channels all day long. While her parents and grandparents waited for the songs, Koli couldn’t wait for it to end. 

“I used to love listening to radio jockeys, they spoke so effortlessly, connecting with so many at once, sitting somewhere in a cool office,” she says with a smile.

Although an average student at school, she never missed an opportunity to participate in debates and elocutions. Her teachers at Vasant Vihar High School in Thane picked her to read news and lead the pledge at morning assemblies. Eventually, she was made a school prefect.

By the age of 11, she had chalked out her entire career plan, to become a radio jockey. She went on to pursue Bachelor of Mass Media from V G Vaze College of Arts, Science and Commerce in Mulund, where she got involved in theatre and anchoring.

During her internship, she met many celebrities including Hrithik Roshan, Jackie Shroff and Ayushmann Khurrana. The meeting with Roshan turned out to be a turning point in her life. She was spotted by Sudeep Lahiri who accompanied the actor and later joined One Digital as vice-president content and strategies.

 Impressed by her bubbling energy, he asked Koli to give YouTube a shot. To discuss this he invited her to his office — which Koli initially thought was a job interview. She was undecided but Lahiri persisted for six months, and she finally gave in.

Whole new world

“More than anything else, I have really lucked out in the people department of my life,” says Koli.

Her channel went live in February 2015 with new videos coming out every Thursday. While finding the right content was challenging initially, she made it a point to never miss a deadline, even if the content was bad.

 “Over time, I have learnt that the worst thing to do when facing writer’s block is to take a break from writing.” In June 2015, she had posted a video on hilarious words Delhi people use. It went viral getting her 30,000 new subscribers by August from just 2,000 in June.

Recently, she featured in WhatsApp India’s first ever commercial on fighting fake news. She went on to collaborate with various channels and personalities such as Girliyapa, FilterCopy, Bhuvan Bam, Ashish Chanchlani, Kajol and Khurrana.

 The video with Khurrana is her favourite till date. “He himself got involved in the script, suggested ideas and helped in improvising it further,” she says.

In 2018, as an Indian representative for YouTube ‘Creators for Change’, Koli found herself sitting in a huge hall in the UN watching her video, No Offence being played on an equally big screen. 

 Koli’s story is that of luck, hard work, and determination. She abides by her parents’ teaching: “You can be below average and definitely above average, but never ever settle for being average.”