Anu Menon

At a time when music channels were still cool, there was a character called Lola Kutty - a bespectacled, Kanjeevaram-clad Mallu girl, with jasmine flowers in her hair, who interviewed Bollywood celebrities. If her accent didn't make you laugh, her astute and hilarious observations did. "I think at my stand-up shows, people are either thrilled to know I am nothing like Lola, or very disappointed. They come up to me, and looking puzzled say, 'you are really pretty', or they say, 'I really like Lola, but you are good too'," laughs comedienne Anu Menon, who has got used to living in the shadow of her character.