Comedian Munawar Faruqi wins Kangana Ranaut's Lock Upp

Comedian Munawar Faruqui won the reality show Lock Upp, hosted by Kangana Ranaut, on Saturday.

Faruqi won Rs 20 lakh and a new car as prizes. The show's finale also featured popular reality show regulars Payal Rohatgi, Anjali Arora, Azma Fallah and Shivam Sharma.

Unlike most reality shows, Lock Upp winner was decided not only on the basis of popular votes, which was topped by Faruqui, but the host, Kangana, had the last word on the subject. It was her seal of approval that finally decided the winner. Payal and Anjali, with whom Faruqui had gotten quite close on the show, were declared the first and second runners up.

Faruqui,before entering Lock Upp, was seeing his shows being cancelled by the Karnataka government. He attracted a lot of sympathy and public goodwill by coming across as this boy from a Dongri chawl who had seen poverty, his mother commit suicide, his marriage break up, and had also been sexually abused as a child.

The comedian was also arrested earlier for "insulting Hindu gods and goddesses", a charge he denies.

(With inputs from IANS)