Tarun Mohanbhai first began his comedy career at school entertaining his classmates, but it wasn't until 1996, that he first performed live at Kitty O'Brien's comedy evenings.

His career took off from there and in 1998 he had his first festival show, Driving Mr. Daisy with Mike Loder for which he won the Quest of the Fest competition. It was also in this year that he made his first trip to London where he performed at The Comedy Café and to Canada where he was onstage at Lafflines, Yuk Yuks and the Urban Well. He went on to start his own company That Indian Guy which went on to produce the comedy shows “Curry and Rice”, Curry Muncher” and the first season of D'arranged Marriage.

In 1999, after the success of their Comedy festival show Three, Mohanbhai with Chris Brain and Terry Frisby joined with Rhys Darby to form Brat Pack and enjoyed a sellout tour through the South Island and performed regularly at the Classic Comedy Club. Since then he has gone from strength to strength, performing at every New Zealand International Comedy Festival.

In 2001 Tarun wrote, directed, and acted in, Night Groovers; a Rad for TV 4 which remained on high rotation for the duration of the network.

In 2002 he devised D'arranged Marriage, for which he was nominated for a Billy T Award. The show was a sellout success and was picked up by Mollisons in Australia on an international contract. He also traveled to England and appeared at many successful comedy venues including Jongleurs, Mirth Control and was the winner of the Comedy Café Open Mic night. In 2003 he toured extensively with D'arranged Marriage both nationally and internationally.

In 2003 he was a core founding member of the Untouchables Collective, New Zealand's first South-Asian theatre company which premiered its first production at the Wellington Fringe Festival to great acclaim.

Tarun's television credits include Pulp Comedy (multiple series), Mercy Peak, Australia's Comedy channels' Forum Gala 2003 and the 2002 Billy T Awards broadcast. In 2004, he appeared on Asia Down Under in a monthly comedy sketch and with Pio in the new series of, Some of my Best Friends Are Indian. He has appeared in Havoc, sketch writing and acting in the Mike King show and is a co-writer and performer in the new comedy series “Last Laugh” for TVNZ which aired late 2006. He can also be seen in the feature film “Tyrannical Love”. His advertisement credits include TSB (Taranaki Savings Bank ) and Maggi .

Mohanbhai and Varma's commercial for the Auckland Dewali festival won widespread acclaim within the South Asian community when it was screened regularly on Auckland's Triangle Television. Those Indian Guys can also been seen in King Kong: Don't Mess with the Monkey, a short film that is dedicated to Peter Jackson's and can be seen at www.kongmovie.com.

Tarun is an established MC and if often called on to MC the annual Dewali festival for the Auckland and Wellington Councils along with the annual Auckland Cultural festival. He has performed in most centers throughout New Zealand as a solo artist also with Those Indian Guys.

Tarun spent 2005 performing his new work From India with Love which opened at the 2005 New Zealand International Comedy Festival, then toured to Malaysia South Africa and a sell out return season in Auckland. Along with this he also was performing at the Durban International Comedy Festival in South Africa in 2005. Earlier in 2006 he performed in Sydney at various venues organized by A-list entertainment along with an opportunity to perform at the Sydney Comedy Store. In 2006 Tarun performed at the Masala!Mehndi!Masti in Toronto and in November of that year traveled to Singapore to perform D'arranged Marriage. In 2007 Tarun shot a pilot A Thousand Apologies which went on to be commissioned for a series for TV 3 and was asked to be a co- writer for the series. Also in that year was a core cast member in a new TV 3 show The Millen Baird show which is yet to go to air. Alongside all this he created a new stand up show for the 2007 NZ International Comedy Festival. In January 2008 Tarun worked alongside 11 other performers to take part in a live sketch show for CBS in Los Angeles. In early 2008 Cornershop Confessions was performed at the Hamilton Gardens. Also in 2008 A Thousand Apologies the series was shot and in can.

Tarun Mohanbhai is a New Zealand born Gujarati Indian.

Tarun was born in 1972 to a grocer in a migrant Indian family who migrated to NZ in the 1940's. Born into the caste Katchia which comes from the Gujarat state in town called Navsari.

Brought up in white suburban Pakuranga, Tarun was a bit of a funny bloke in the playground which eventually evolved into standup comedy.

Tarun first hit the comedy stage in 1996 and since then has produced, written and stared in 4 sellout New Zealand comedy festival shows.”

His current TV credits included featured performances on the top rating Billy T Awards, PULP Comedy, Last Laugh, New Zealand’s award winning drama Mercy Peak and the feature Tyrannical Love. Tarun can also been seen on the upcoming shows A Thousand Apologies and The Millen Baird show.