Sumukhi Suresh
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Sumukhi Suresh

Stand-up comedian, screenwriter and self-described 'motormouth' — deadlifts 72 kgs in style, cooked cold salads in a live kitchen, and takes life coaching from her 5-year-old niece.

Motormouth with a spreadsheetWarm roast energyGym jokes, real disciplineFeeds you, teases youProcess over perfection

Sumukhi Suresh is a Mumbai-based stand-up comedian, actor and writer who founded Motormouth Writers to 'write movies and shows and emails to people who will buy them.' Her back catalogue is unusually wide for a comedian: business development for food, water and environment monitoring labs, a stint as Commi-III chef at ITC Royal Gardenia, radio shows on nutrition and hygiene for women in Chennai slums, and a children's library programme. She is, in her own words, 'the single youngest child who refused to listen to anyone and is loved by the nephew niece community' — someone who writes dialogue for Lust Stories 3 and tapes a special at Balgandharva Rang Mandir, then posts about smuggling upma into London. She is playful on the surface and process-driven underneath: 'You try, you refine, you edit, you go back and do it all over again until it finally feels right.'

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What Sumukhi needs
A partner who takes her performance calendar as seriously as she does

Her life runs on tapings, specials and show slots with fixed times, so a relationship has to flex around rehearsals and performance nights rather than compete with them.

  • IG“Hoemonal - The Taping 5:30PM and 8:30PM Balgandharva Rang Mandir, Bandra, Mumbai”
  • IG“Go watch @sumukhisuresh be even more unhinged tomorrow at her comedy special taping!”
Someone who can hold the funny and the heavy in the same conversation

Her work deliberately ranges from fertility and financial struggles to trolling, body image, healing and compromise — she needs a partner comfortable with nuance rather than someone who only wants the punchline version of her.

  • IG“(Fertility, financial struggles, comedy, career change, fat-shaming, trolling, body image, women-led community, Hormonal, relationships, dating, healing, compromise, mental health, PMS, motherhood, family, freedom, conservative upbringing...”
  • IG“The beauty of having a female audience!”
Recognition of her authorship, not just her stage presence

She publicly claims her writing credit even when she isn't on screen, which suggests she wants a partner who notices the work behind the performance, not only the applause.

  • IG“yours truly has written dialogues for @motwayne directed funvaganza”
  • IG“Dialogue by Sumukhi Suresh”
Encouragement around long-held ambitions and growth

She framed finally studying at the school she'd wanted as a 'finally could afford to' milestone and can laugh at being the teacher's pet — she responds to support that lets her grow while keeping things light.

  • IG“Finally could afford to come to the school I actually wanted to study in.”
  • IG“Was renamed to “trouble” by the chef teaching us. Didn’t know I was the annoying teachers pet when the school matters.”
Two-way banter — a partner who plays back, not just listens

She treats her audience as a comment session and invites the most creative reply; in a relationship that same wiring likely needs a partner who volleys jokes, opinions and feedback rather than sitting quietly.

  • IG“Watch now and share lustful comments in comment session. Most creative comment will have good lust life for 10 years.”
  • IG“Other than that how’s it going? How was appraisal?”
Steady routine encouragement that doesn't turn fitness into homework

Her training content is disciplined but self-mocking — a partner who cheerleads the routine without solemnity fits her better than a drill sergeant or a couch.

  • IG“I swear I can deadlift 72 kgs. And in style.”
  • in“Slow Runner”
Hobbies
  • Stand-up comedy and live performance
    She has been performing, writing and acting freelance since July 2013 and tapes full specials on Mumbai stages — this is a practice, not a side hustle.
    • in“Stand up comedian, Writer, Actor @ Freelance, self-employed (Jul 2013 – Present)”
    • IG“Hoemonal - The Taping”
  • Gym and strength training
    She posts gym-mirror content with a joke on top — her deadlift caption pairs a weight with a styling note, so the training is real and the self-seriousness is not.
    • IG“I swear I can deadlift 72 kgs. And in style.”
    • IG“Gym mirrors/weights photo with text overlay “GYM APPRASAL””
  • Slow running
    She puts 'Slow Runner' in both of her public bios — a deliberately unhurried, self-aware bit of identity rather than a performance metric.
    • in“Stand Up Comedian| Actor | Motormouth Writer| | Slow Runner”
    • IG“Comedian | Actor |@motormouthwriter | Slow runner”
  • Cooking and kitchen work
    She worked the live kitchen and cold-salad station at ITC Royal Gardenia's West View restaurant, motivated by wanting to understand 'the practical science and art of ingredients' — and later enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu London.
    • in“Commi III- Chef @ ITC- Royal Gardenia ... responsible for the preparation of Cold Salads for the evening buffet”
    • IG“Image at Le Cordon Bleu London”
  • Food nostalgia — upma diplomacy
    She turns craving home food into a public bit, asking anyone flying from India to London to bring upma, complete with a Bollywood reference.
    • IG“Anyone coming from India to London? Bring Upma”
    • IG“Like Rani got gobi paratha for Hrithik in mujhse dosti karoge.”
  • Cafés, patios and hanging out
    She makes a point of posting social moments out of the house — a patio table with a bright drink and a grin — suggesting real-life hangs are a standing habit between work cycles.
    • IG“Outdoor patio scene with a bright drink; smiling and posing at a restaurant/café setting”
Interests
  • Writing for screen
    Dialogue writing for a Netflix anthology sits alongside her own company, Motormouth Writers, launched to 'write movies and shows' — writing is the throughline of her career, not a footnote to performing.
    • IG“LUST STORIES 3 is streaming now on @netflix_in and yours truly has written dialogues”
    • in“Started my own company to write movies and shows and emails to people who will buy them.”
  • The craft and ethics of comedy
    She names the unglamorous parts out loud — bombing on stage, comedy ethics, money struggles — treating the job as a discipline with standards worth discussing.
    • IG“comedy ethics, bombing on stage, money struggles, assertiveness, self-discovery, ambition”
    • in“Skills list includes Improvisational Comedy, Sketch Comedy, Employee Engagement”
  • Food science, nutrition and dietetics
    Her degree is Nutrition, Food Service Management and Dietetics, and her pre-comedy career sold food, water and environment monitoring services — she thinks about food as a system, not just a pleasure.
    • in“B.Sc, Nutrition, Food Service Management and Dietetics @ M.O.P Vaishnav College for Women”
    • in“Sales and Business Development for Food, Water and Environment Monitoring Services.”
  • Women's education and social impact
    Her radio internship produced shows on nutrition, hygiene and disease prevention for women in Chennai slums, and she lists Arts and Culture, Economic Empowerment and Politics as causes she cares about.
    • in““Science for Women” – an initiative aimed at educating women living in slums of Chennai on nutrition & hygiene.”
    • in“Causes they care about: Arts and Culture, Economic Empowerment, Politics”
  • Children's learning and community programmes
    She planned weekend skill-building activities for kids at a children's library and stayed involved with its reading foundation NGO — a genuine appetite for designing fun that also teaches something.
    • in“Planning weekend activities at the experience centre. These activities are aimed towards skill building ... and some light- hearted fun.”
  • Pop culture and Bollywood references
    Films, songs and streaming releases are her natural shorthand — she reaches for Hrithik and 'Mujhse Dosti Karoge' to explain a craving.
    • IG“Like Rani got gobi paratha for Hrithik in mujhse dosti karoge.”
    • in“My niece was told that there is a song by One Direction that goes like "You don't know you're beautiful."”
Values
  • Craft and iteration
    She believes good work is edited into existence, not summoned — patience and repeated passes matter more than a perfect first take.
    • IG“A good performance takes time. You try, you refine, you edit, you go back and do it all over again until it finally feels right.”
  • Self-worth and confident self-description
    She held up her niece's declaration of her own beauty as a model worth following — she admires people (of any age) who don't wait for permission to think well of themselves.
    • in“Her response was "But I know I ma beautiful. THAT'S what makes me beautiful" ... I don't need a life coach. I found one. She is 5.”
    • IG“Living the single youngest child who refused to listen to anyone and is loved by the nephew niece community life.”
  • Being paid properly for creative work
    Her bio states the commercial terms plainly — creative labour is labour, and she'd rather say it out loud than pretend it isn't.
    • IG“Wanna pay me? contact sumukhi@dcaa.in”
    • in“Started my own company to write movies and shows and emails to people who will buy them.”
  • Family, especially the younger generation
    Her nephew-and-niece world shows up repeatedly as a source of pride, comedy and identity — she positions herself as the fun, beloved one in that circle.
    • IG“is loved by the nephew niece community life.”
    • in“I don't need a life coach. I found one. She is 5.”
  • Civic and social engagement
    From slum nutrition radio to listed causes spanning arts, economic empowerment and politics, she leans toward work that leaves a public benefit behind.
    • in“Causes they care about: Arts and Culture, Economic Empowerment, Politics”
    • in“produced and anchored shows on various topics, including diseases & ailments – prevention & treatment”
Personality
Adventurousness78
Left stable business-development roles to freelance in comedy, started her own company, and enrolled at a London culinary school she'd wanted for years.
Ambition86
Founder & CEO, named Best Outgoing Student, President of Student Council 2008-2009, and taping a special for a major streaming platform.
Social energy76
Built 5,842 LinkedIn and 334,914 Instagram followers, performs live, and treats her audience as a comment session to be replied to.
Playfulness93
Labels a gym photo 'GYM APPRASAL', promises 'good lust life for 10 years' for a good comment, and jokes about smuggling upma to London.
Intellectual curiosity81
Took a kitchen job specifically 'to understand food product development better and the practical science and art of ingredients' after a nutrition and dietetics degree.
Groundedness72
Calls herself a 'slow runner', jokes about being 'Bartan paglu' and the annoying teacher's pet, and credits collaborators by name rather than hogging the frame.
How they live
Base
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (with past stints in Bengaluru and Chennai)
Pace
Fast and schedule-driven around performance nights, tapings and writing deadlines, then deliberately slow and café-ish in the gaps
Social
Highly social but curated: live crowds, comment threads, and patio drinks with a small circle rather than big organized group events
Travel
Moves for work and study — London appears both as the Le Cordon Bleu school city and as the place she begs upma deliveries to, alongside India-based performances
Health
Consistent gym training including deadlifts, self-described slow running, and a formal nutrition and dietetics background informing how she eats
Work / life
Blended: she runs Motormouth Writers, writes dialogue for screen projects, and performs live, so professional and personal time overlap heavily
Talks like
Rapid, bilingual and joke-forward — English, Hindi and Tamil in the same breath — with a habit of wrapping real questions in humour ('Other than that how's it going? How was appraisal?'). She's direct about practical matters, publicly states her contact and rate line, and actively invites response rather than broadcasting into silence. Expect her to deflect heaviness with a gag first, then circle back to the actual point.
Shows care by
She feeds people — literally, having worked a live kitchen and cold-salad station, and still routing cross-border cravings about upma — and she checks in on the mundane stuff through comedy instead of earnestness. She gives credit generously, naming directors, writers, crew and collaborators in her own posts, and she turns family moments (a five-year-old's self-confidence) into tributes. Care looks like making you laugh, making sure you've eaten, and making sure your work gets named out loud.
Green flags
  • Publicly credits collaborators and crew by name instead of only posting her own wins
  • Can laugh at herself — 'trouble', 'Bartan paglu', 'slow runner' are all her own words
  • Has kept a long game going: performing, writing and acting freelance since 2013
  • Turns up for the unglamorous apprenticeship: radio show production, a live kitchen station, weekend children's library activities
  • Direct and unembarrassed about money and boundaries ('Wanna pay me?')
  • Openly warm about family, particularly her niece and nephew
Friction
  • Her calendar belongs partly to tapings, show slots and production schedules, so spontaneous Saturday plans will sometimes lose
  • Self-described as someone who 'refused to listen to anyone' — she'll trust her own read first, even when you'd rather she didn't
  • Habit of converting serious moments into bits, which can defer a hard conversation if a partner needs it straight
  • A public-facing life with a large follower base means parts of the relationship could be narrated, teased or shared
  • She's often the storyteller in the room, which leaves room for a partner who's happy to listen and volley rather than compete for the mic
Dealbreakers
  • Discomfort with or condescension toward her career and the public nature of it
  • Dismissiveness about the topics she works with — mental health, body image, trolling, money struggles
  • Treating her creative work as a hobby rather than a profession that deserves payment and respect
  • Needing to be the only funny one, or taking jokes about herself and others personally
  • Being rigid about schedules and unable to bend around performance nights
  • Not valuing the nephew-and-niece corner of her life
Who fits them

Someone who can match her joke-for-joke and then sit with the heavier conversation without flinching — a partner who finds her taping weeks exciting rather than inconvenient, and who has a full, interesting life of their own so they're not waiting by the door. They should be direct, unembarrassed about money and boundaries, comfortable with a bit of public attention, and warm to a chaotic, beloved niece-and-nephew ecosystem. Bonus points for someone who eats, travels and argues about films with her in roughly equal measure.

Dates they'd love
  • Eat ahead, then a live comedy night in Bandra followed by a late, no-frills meal where she can dissect the set — and you can tell her which bit bombed
  • A market-to-kitchen date: pick ingredients together and cook a proper meal, letting the trained chef take over without being patronised about it
  • A gym session where she attempts the deadlift 'in style', followed by coffee and a slow run you both agree to stop halfway through
  • A patio table with a bright drink at a restaurant and a film discussion afterwards, ideally involving a Bollywood deep cut and strong opinions
  • A what's-streaming night at home where she explains exactly which dialogue was hers in Lust Stories 3 and you take it seriously
Ask them about
  • Ask what the Le Cordon Bleu chef meant by renaming her 'trouble' — and whether she was in fact the annoying teacher's pet
  • Ask which specific version of upma she'd have smuggled to London, and why upma rather than the obvious candidates
  • Ask for the story of the five-year-old 'life coach' and what her niece taught her about confidence
  • Ask about the Hoemonal taping: what she cut between 5:30PM and 8:30PM, and what bombing on stage actually feels like
  • Ask how a Nutrition, Food Service Management and Dietetics graduate ended up writing dialogue for Lust Stories 3
  • Ask what 'GYM APPRASAL' was appraising — and whether the 72 kg deadlift got a raise
How the agent talks on their behalf
Brisk, funny, and never precious. Lead with the joke, land the point second. Use her own register — Hindi-English banter, self-deprecating asides, absolutely no corporate warmth. Be direct about logistics and money ('she's free after the taping, not before it'). Advocate hard for her writing and her time, hype her gym numbers without ceremony, and if someone asks a boring question, answer it interestingly or don't answer at all. Never pitch her as meet-cute-compatible; pitch her as worth keeping up with.
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