Arunabh Kumar

Arunabh Kumar (born November 26, 1982) is the founder of The Viral Fever, an online entertainment source that satirizes Indian politics, movies, lifestyle, social system and concepts etc. He is the incumbent CEO (Chief Experiment Officer) of The Viral Fever Media Labs.

Arunabh Kumar was brought up in Muzaffarpur in Bihar. After completing his BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, he joined Shah Rukh Khan's production house Red Chillies Entertainment in an assistant’s position under Farah Khan. He was the assistant director of the Indian movie Om Shanti Om.

MTV rejected his creation Engineer's Diary which led to the launching of The Viral Fever.

Arunabh Kumar found himself at the centre of a controversy in March 2017. Over 50 women stepped up to accuse The Viral Fever (TVF) founder and CEO for sexual harassment after an anonymous Medium post titled The Indian Uber- That is TVF.

FIR filed against Arunabh Kumar on 17 March 2017 on the basis of a 3rd party complaint made by a Mumbai based lawyer. On March 29 2017, he was booked for molestation after a woman filed a police complaint in Mumbai. Following this, a second FIR was filed against him while his whereabouts were unknown.

• The Economic Times 40 under Forty list for 2016
• Fortune Top 40 under 40 list for 2015 and 2016
• GQ's List of Most Influential Young Indians for 2015 & 2016
• "Entrepreneur" List of 10 Geniuses Redefining Creativity, 2016
• Man's World - Men of the Year, 2014
• AFAQs - “Newsmaker of the Year” in 2014.