A Youtube channel that touches every aspect of Indian surroundings and brings in every detail of it with a fabulous script and artist. The Viral Fever Media Labs started this channel and is currently taken over by Contagious Online Media Network Private Limited. The channel was started in 2010 and from its first series gained high popularity and after that never looked back.
The Viral Fever
How the viral fever channel was Started
‘The Viral Fever’ is a Indian youtube channel started by Arunabh Kumar, who is the CEO of the TVF Media Labs. An Electrical Engineer from IIT Kharagpur was assistant director of multiple movies in the production house owned by Shahrukh Khan and was the assistant of the very well known director Farah Khan.
Somewhere Arunabh also had inspiration of writing and he also had a script ready which he wanted to get directed by the top of the directors and get funded by some of the production houses, fortunately or unfortunately you may say his script was rejected by very well know television company know as MTV.
Thereafter Arunabh took a step to start his own channel along with his IIT batch mates and this is how The Viral Fever Channel was launched
First step to success
The very first video released by the channel was a roast of a serial Roadies played by MTV channel, which had a tremendous hit and got overnight success this pushed Arunabh to create a YouTube channel company
After this TVF came up with something unique and creative videos for their audience, the idea was to interview trending people of that time and the interviewer was the duplicate actor who used the copy style of famous news reporter Arnab Goswami(A very well-known know news reported who has his unique way of reading news and questioning in guest), no need to mention but this series also was got huge love from the audience with average view of 5 to 6 million
Top Loved Web Series
- Panchayat
A Comedy Drama based on a passed-out engineer but instead of joining a Private firm he joined as Panchayat secretary in a remote village of Utter Pradesh after qualifying in a competitive exam, He gave competitive exam due to lack of opportunities or opening in his field.
This series was although not released on youtube as it was primarily created for Amazon Prime Video which is an subscription based OTT platform, series was primiered on April 2020 which got very good response from the audience and critics for it’s direction, script and for performance of actors
- Aspirants
A coming-of-age drama Aspirant is all about 3 friends who are UPSC aspirants and are preparing together in Delhi, old Rajinder Nagar. This series gives brief understanding how lakhs of aspirants prepare for UPSC and struggle during this journey.
In all there was 5 episode created for this series and published on The Viral Fever youtube channel on April 2021
- Kota Factory
Another web series which is based on the real-life experience of the students who are preparing for IIT-JEE. The series gives a brief about students’ emotions, their struggles, preparation and also about love life during their preparation for IIT-JEE.
Kota City is an educational hub located in Rajasthan, India known for the famous coaching centers for IIT-JEE, this series gives a complete overview of how a student reaches this city and prepares for this exam
The first season was released on YouTube on April 2019 and the second season was released on Netflix
Making of Stars by The Viral Fever
Many actors are known because of this channel series, actors are also talented, but the story and picturization of these series make the skills of artists more prominent. They’re some of the artists who have become very famous after working with this channel
- Jitendra Kumar
Very first on the list is Jitendra Kumar a talent that was found by TVF, Jitendra has worked with The Viral Factory on multiple projects such as Panchayat, Kota Factory, Pitchers and many more
Working with TVF Jitendra also got his new name as Jitu Bhaiya and every fan of him may recognize him as Jitu Bhaiya only
- Biswapati Sarkar
He is a screenwriter and producer by profession but extending his skills by acting in a series created by TVF. His acting in the web series ‘Barely Speaking with Arnub’ attracted him a lot of attraction and was accepted by the audience
Recently he was also a writed of Fighter movie starring Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone which was huge blockbuster on big cinema
- Naveen Kasturia
He is know for the work he has done in the series TVF Picthers and Aspirants, he started his work in industry as a assistant director and later on started acting.
As an assistant he has also worked with oscar winning director Danis Tavonic for the movie made in india called Tigers
Awards and Recognization
TVF got several awards for the series Panchayat and the awards was given by Flyx Flimfare OTT awards.
The show received awards for
- Best Actor
- Best Comedy Show – Jitendra Kumar
- Best Actor supporting role(Female) – Neena Gupta
- Best Actor supporting role(Male) – Raghubir Yadhav
Controversy around The Viral Fever
The founder of TVF Mr. Anurabh Kumar was blamed by multiple women for sexual harasment, this controversy went viral on through Medium platform, surprisingly there were many women who reported this incident and shared their experience while this controversy was on peak.
For this incident FIR was also registered by Mumbai police as several women approached police station for registering there complaint, in all total 2 FIR was registered against this incident
After this incident Anurabh stepped down from the from the CEO position and thereafter Dhawal Gusain took over the CEO position and after 3 years Anurabh joned back TVF as a Mentor for the organization
Latest trending Shows
Sapne VS Everyone
A story of 2 individual who wants to chase their dream but due to social influence they are struggling to take the decision. Story is about how they case their dream and win over the period of time
Aspirants Season 2
Abhilash who cracked the UPSC exam in season one has started working as magisrate in Rampur and in the same location Sandeep has also joined. There is conflict between them and same results in escalating tension
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