# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kanan-gill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:32:33.200Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kanan-gill"
name: "Kanan Gill"
slug: "kanan-gill"
description: "Kanan Singh Gill is an Indian comedian, actor, author and YouTuber. He won the Punch Line Bangalore Competition. He is known for the YouTube series Pretentious Movie Reviews where he reviews campy Bollywood films along with fellow stand-up comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath. He was one of the main personalities behind the YouTube Comedy Hunt and also co-hosted the YouTube FanFest India. In 2017, he released his own one-hour comedy special, Keep It Real on Amazon Prime Video. He made his debut on the big screen with the film Noor, alongside Sonakshi Sinha. In 2018, he was also a judge on Comicstaan, a comedic reality TV show, on Amazon Prime Video. He released his new special Is This It? on YouTube in 2024."
tagline: "Indian stand-up comedian and musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kanan_Gill_trailer_launch_Noor_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "YouTubers"
  slug: "youtubers"
profileType:
  name: "YouTuber"
  slug: "youtuber"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15222076"
birthDate: "1989-12-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           69.05
  momentum:             1.384852487890797
  historical:           5.919489333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  164
  category: 182
totalFollowers: 801000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/kanangill"
    handle:    "kanangill"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/kanangill/"
    handle:    "kanangill"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/kanangill"
    handle:    "kanangill"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8379182/"
    handle:    "nm8379182"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5W8kZaY_u59fwgtjnLrBXA"
    handle:    "@kanan_gill"
    followers: 801000
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a600642b-f9e8-4e19-a996-c29cc2365bb7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "كنان جيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "كنان جيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%B2"
    title: "কানন গীল"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanan_Gill"
    title: "Kanan Gill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanan_Gill"
    title: "Kanan Gill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18686350"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1739926"
    title: "Kanan Gill"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump