Bollywood actor Anupam Kher recently posted a cryptic message on a micro-blogging site during an interview after the release of the film ‘The Kashmir Files’. The matter was settled in exactly two tweets, but it left some questions unanswered. So, wasn’t Vivek Agnihotri’s team invited to promote the film on a popular comedy show because of the sensitive content related to the ‘genocide’ of Kashmiri Pandits?
Like many netizens, as we ponder over the same query, our thoughts run for the image of the person mentioned in Kher’s tweet. From becoming a household name with his laugh therapy to crossing over to ‘Hope’, comedian Kapil Sharma has had his share of rise and fall. and still, “he hasn’t done it yetBut is it over for Kapil Sharma fans?
Sharma, who entered the world of Hindi television with ‘The Great Indian Laughter Challenge’, broke the popularity charts after six years in 2013 with ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 6’.
The comedian had been doing several shows over the years including hosting ‘Comedy Circus’ and ‘Chhote Miyan’. Taking forward her passion for singing, she also participated in a singing reality show ‘Star Ya Rockstar’. But his partnership with Maniesh Paul made him an instant hit, expanding his fan base.
From pulling the legs of the contestants to imagining the guests in various roles (one day Sharma deployed singer Shaan as a jawan on the border), the details made the audiences roll on the floor.
A still from Jhalak Dikhla Jaa. Season 6
Months later, he expanded his gimmick with his own production. The chat show ‘Comedy Nights With Kapil’ broke all records. But there was also a section that thought her gigs were frivolous because it morphed into body-shaming and insult comedy.
However, the criticism bothered neither Sharma nor the makers as the show became India’s highest-rated scripted TV programme. Apart from his usual fan base, he had now found a place in the conversation of actors and politicians.
In 2014, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi mocked Rahul Gandhi in one of his election speeches. PM Modi had then suggested that the Congress leader’s mistakes should be telecast on TV instead of comedian Kapil Sharma’s show.
“I think the TV serial of Kapil Sharma (Comedy Nights With Kapil) will be shut down in a few days. TV people should collect and show this Rahul Gandhi (YouTube) video and all election fatigue will go away. You don’t have to do anything else for entertainment,” Modi said at a rally in support of then-candidate Uma Bharti in UP’s Jhansi.
After becoming the PM, he nominated the comedian for ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ to spread awareness among people about cleanliness and other sanitation related social issues. But Sharma’s days of fame began to fade, the day he tweeted PM Modi.
Kapil Sharma the child of controversies?
“Yeh hai aapke din? @narendramodi (sic)” and “I am paying income tax of Rs 15 crore for last 5 years and still I have to pay Rs 5 lakh to BMC office to make my office @narendramodi (sic)” Bribery has to be paid,” Sharma wrote in his tweet, the Prime Minister.
In another incident, activists did not like the comedian’s jokes on women. Taking a jibe at the potholes in the country, Sharma had said that the condition of the roads is such that women can deliver at any time on a pothole-filled road. Due to this, a woman activist lodged a complaint against him with the Maharashtra State Commission for Women.
One incident that made headlines for a long time was an on-air brawl with Sharma’s co-star Sunil Grover. Sharma allegedly abused and hit his co-star in a state of intoxication. Reports stated that holding Grover by the collar, Sharma told him, “Tu mera servant hai, tera show flop tha… (You are my servant, your show was a flop). However, the comedian denied these reports. has done.
This time again he has created controversy due to which the hashtag ‘#BycottKapilSharmaShow’ has started trending on Twitter. ‘The Kashmir Files’ director Vivek Agnihotri had alleged that he was not invited to ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’ as the film did not have a ‘commercial star-cast’. There was an almost verbal war between Anupam Kher and Sharma on Twitter.
“Modiji promoted #TheKashmirFiles, we don’t need Bollywood gang bootliker @KapilSharmaK9 for promotion, so to hell with his show. I condemn the Bollywood gang for not supporting the truth #BycottKapilSharmaShow’, wrote a Twitter user.
This is not the first time that there have been sharp reactions on Twitter. Some people, who got a chance to watch ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’ live, wrote on Quora that people are told to “laugh on the sets”. Since we haven’t been to any of the shows, we can’t confirm it. Also, it is an accepted fact that there is a difference between reel and real.
I’m not done yet, says Kapil Sharma. But what do the audience think?
Sharma also knows that he has been in the newspapers many times for the wrong reasons and why. But this is where his talent comes in handy. Making his Netflix debut, the comedian turned some of these controversies into a comedy script. This is where he stands out – picking up a random daily task or mistake and turning it into a story.
He is, or maybe was (we’re divided here), sometimes quite relatable. Who could forget them when describing the benefits of a toothbrush for a middle-class family – from cleaning teeth to being retired as a wire-pulling tool for pajamas? And the difficulty faced by a middle-class family before throwing away a toothpaste tube – one uses the edge of a toothbrush to apply extra pressure to remove some or even cut the tube to use the last pea-sized piece of paste. gives.
Well, middle class issues always sell. That’s why politicians talk about them before the elections and every year during the Union Budget there is such suspense on the relief for the middle class.
There is enough material in the market, just need to know how to make it. While Kapil Sharma’s stand-up act, ‘I’m Not Done Still’ on Netflix cracked us into the relevant bits, it didn’t generate much interest in the end as it turned into a tribute to his father, which was more like a KJo drama.
Maybe ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’ still generates high numbers considering it gets repeated on weekends. But we are still not sure whether the repeated acts will keep the audience tickling or it plays in the background with the desire for more and with the hope that ‘Kapil Sharma is not done yet’.
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