Does the lockdown make you a better artist? If Vir Das' new comedy special is anything to go by, he is certainly a more perceptive comic during the lockdown. There is something poignant about his new special - Inside Out. Laced with a lingering melancholic feeling as we watch him, day after day wearing his headphones to deliver the laughs on Zoom, the show chronicles the lives of people who are craving for a judicious serving of humour. Some of them tune in from the breakfast table, some even from their toilets but Das never ceases to make the most grim times like these funny. It also can be seen as a piece on his reinvention as he delivers his most intimate work so far. We get a peek into his life, his books, his dog Watson makes an appearance and his headspace which is oscillating between hope and despair.

There are a few heartbreaking stories strewn strategically across its 50 minutes' run time - of lovers separated by thousands of kilometres, a young man's dream of studying at a premier American University kept on hold, of a father waiting to dine with his daughter, a nurse after a long shift discussing what her work has been lately. Vir asks everyone the same question, "What's the first thing you're going to do when the world reopens?". The answers evoke plenty of laughs. At one point, a kid says innocently - "He wants some ice cream." The sheer horror of the last 6 months chronicled so simply and beautifully, Vir's special is less about the jabs and more about the overarching feeling (even the theme of this show) as Vir puts it - "That's the thing about the entire world going through the same thing at the same time. I guess it's special."