Most of Sait's videos have close to 100,000 views on Twitter alone, and are shared across platforms like WhatsApp, YouTube and TikTok In his viral ‘lockdown conversations’ videos, in which he seems to effortlessly channel all our lockdown obsessions and frustrations, comedian Danish Sait uses wildly inappropriate household objects as stand-ins for a mobile phone.
These could be anything from a tissue box to a bottle of rum, a room freshener aerosol can or a paintbrush, and they have now become iconic.
But while these props make the videos “next level" funny (to borrow one of Sait’s favourite phrases) they are also a symbol of lockdown jugaad: they were pushed into service because when Sait started making the videos, soon after the first