Samay Raina Age, Biography, Girlfriend, Family, Net Worth, Controversy and More

Becoming a comic requires a lot of talent. You need to have the skills which can easily grab the attention of your audience and make them laugh through your one liners. India has become the hub of comic and stand up comedians and currently one of the most popular and controversial comics of India is Samay Raina. With his own sets of ups and downs, Samay has achieved a lot throughout his career. 

In this blog, we are going to talk in detail about Samay Raina Age, his Career as a Comic, his Chess Career, his Relationship, India’s Got Latent, and More. So, let’s start with the blog and learn in detail the personal and professional life of one of the most popular comedians in India.

Samay Raina Biography

Samay Raina is very famous Indian Youtuber and stand-up comedian, and also a chess enthusiast, born on 26 October 1997 in Jammu, India. He hosted “India’s Got Latent” an Indian Hindi-language talent show hosted by Samay Raina on YouTube, he also famous for India’s got latent controversy.

Samay Raina Age

Samay’s date of birth is 26th October 1997 which means that he is 27 years old as of 2025. He has become one of the most talked about personality on the internet in India.

Samay Raina Height, Weight and Physical Appearance

Samay is not that fit as he does not have a lot of focus on his fitness. He do not have any fitness regime but he still looks presentable and it is also really important as him being an internet personality. With a height of 5.6 feet and weighing around 82 kg, Samay appears elegant.

Samay Raina’s Parents and Family

Samay Raina comes from a Kashmiri Hindu family of Jammu & Kashmir, his father Rajesh Raina is a seasoned journalist with over 18 years of experience. His mother Sweeti Raina is a homemaker who chose to leave her job to focus on raising Samay.

Early Life

Samay was born and brought up in a Kashmiri Hindu family of Jammu & Kashmir. Since he was a child, Samay had a skill to make everyone laugh and capture the attention of everyone around him. After spending a major part of his life in Jammu, Samay’s family made the decision of shifting to Maharashtra where Samay got a platform to work on his comic skills.

Samay Rains Educational Qualifications

Samay has been a very bright student in the early days of his education. He completed his early education from the Hyderabad Public School in Begumpet. Many people might not know this about Samay, but he was an engineering student when in college. He got a bachelors degree in engineering but whenever someone asked hima bout how he feels about the degree that he got he would always answer it by saying that it was a complete waste of time. The reason behind this was that he was never interested in having a career as an engineer.

Samay Raina Girlfriend

Fans of Samay have been constantly searching on the internet to know if he has a girlfriend on not. Well, no type of confirmation has been given by Samay or any of his closed ones in this scenario. No type of rumor is also available on the internet which would help us in making a guess. All we can do is wait for any kind of official announcement made from the side of Samay. According to some rumors about Samay Raina and Sahiba Bali are in a relationship, Sahiba Bali is an actress and influencer.

Samay Raina Career As A Comedian

As we have already said that Samay always had a talent for making people laugh with his one liner and many people told him that he would be a perfect comedian. He made this his goal and started to his refine his comic skills. To work on his skills and know the type of audience that he would perform for, Samay used to take part in various open mic proagram in Pune. The response that he got from these shows was not that great but this did not break his moral and made him even more dedicated to work on his skills and make them even better. 

Samay Raina Career As a Youtuber

As Youtube was at its peak in India in 2013, Samay also decided to give a try. It was a really good way of helping your content reach a mass audience and would also help samay in getting the feedback that he needed for his content. On his Youtube channel Samay would post live streams and comic content which was able to receive a lot of love from the audience. As of February 2025, his Youtube channel holds 7.48 million subscribers.

Samay Raina as a Stand Up Comedian

After his joruney as a Youtuber, it was time for Samay to try out professional stand up comedy. For this, he decided to take part in various stand up events and competitions taking place all around Maharashtra. This would help him in knowing where does he stand as a comic. One of the first comic event that Samay took place in which helped him in gaining fame was Comicstaan that was broadcasted on Amazon Prime. Samay was part of the 2nd season of this show and had co contestants like popular comedian Aakash Gupta.

Aakash and Samay were the joint winners of the 2nd season of this show. After this, Samay also took part in the Netflix’s COmedy Premier League as a contestant and was part of the team Lovable Langoors. The team included- Amit Tandon, Aadar Malik, and Rytasha Rathore who are well known comedian themselves. 

Samay Raina as a Chess Live Streamer

A majority of people only know Samay as a stand up comedian, but they don’t know that Samay is also a well known chess player. He is among the top chess player in India. Samay started live streaming chess on his Youtube channel during Covid when no stand up comedy or open mic events were not taking place. He would make one liners on these streams which would go viral on social media. He was also one of the organizer for a charity based chess match which was named “Chess For Charity”. Many big names like Yuzvendra Chahal, Vidit Gujharati, Antonio Radic took art in this. 

Samay Raina India’s Got Latent

The most recent event event organized by Samay which created a lot of controversy and was also loved a lot was India’s Got Latent. The format of the show was simple where contestants would showcase their talents on stage and the one with the best talent would win a prize. Every episode of the show had a different judges panel. The show got insanely viral on social media with various one liners like Maheep Singh’s “Mummy Kaisi Hai” and many others. Various big names like Seedhe Maut, Rakhi Sawant, Yuzvendra Chahal had been part of the shows judges panel. But, the last episode of this got a lot backlash on the internet.

India’s Got Latent Controversy

The last episode of India’s Got Latent became so controversial that it led Samay to delete all the episodes of the show and even led people to file an FIR against him and 30 other. This episode consisted of big names like the social media influencer Apporva “The Rebel Kid”, Ranveer Allhabaidia “Beer Biceps” and more. During a contestant performance, Apporva said something which created a lot of buzz on the internet, but this was not the biggest controversy.

The one statement that made the people question the shows moral was made by Ranveer Allhabadia when he asked a contestant “if your parents are having Sex, will you join it or just watch it…. Many people did not like this statement made by him and even made many people quite angry. You can get the idea of their anger by the fact that people fired FIRs on them and started to cancel them. Many people also said that they should be hanged.

But, as in every case this case also had a lot of supporters. There was a majority of people who supported Ranveer and said that yes what he said might not be correct but there is not need to make such a huge case out of this. People need to focus on the things which needs their attention. They were basically referring to various problems that our nation in facing. Well, everyone have their own perfective on these type of cases. What is your perspective on this, please let us know. 

Samay Raina Net Worth

Many people might think that one cannot build a career as a stand up comedian especially in India. But that is not true and the best example of this is Samay Raina. With his various sources of income, Samay has generated a good amount of wealth. As of 2025, his estimated net worth would be approximately $16.5 million (approx Rs 140 Crore).

Samay Raina Social Media Handles

Social media plays a very crucial role in the life of social media influencers and personalities like Samay. This can help them to stay connected with their fans on social media. These fans can also take the help of his social media handles to provide his fans with new content regularly. Samay’s Instagram handle is @maisamayhoom which currently holds 6 million followers. He also has an account on Facebook with the username @rainasamay which also has around 15k followers. 

The main social media handle of Samay is his Yoututbe channel where he uploads regular content like his stand up videos and also his other content. Here we are providing you with the direct links to Samay’s social media handles where you can follow him and stay updated with his personal and professional life updates:

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