FLO members had an interactive session with India’s comedy king, Kapil Sharma on Monday at the Hotel Park, Hyderabad.
Kapil Sharma, who was in conversation with Shubhraa Maheshwari, said he never dreamt of becoming a comedian. It happened accidentally. “You can even call me an accidental comedian. Initially, I wanted to become a police officer like my father. Later I wanted to become a singer. When I went to college, I wanted to become a theatre personality. Now I am in front of you as a comedian.” At one stage he wanted to become a fighter pilot too! He was also equally certain that he wanted to pursue music. Punjab to Mumbai, college to stand-up comedian, singer to acting, nothing was planned. It just happened and happened for good for him.
Introducing Kapil Sharma in detail, the chairperson described him as a person dipped in Ganga of humour! The man who brought happiness into every household while he too struggled and his success was not that aasan. He is not only a comedian, he can do serious roles like the one in the upcoming movie ‘Zwigato’ in which he acted as a delivery boy. No one is hurt by his comedy. Once a struggling theatre artist, is the most successful artist. He is self-made! He wears many hats. And he spreads happiness through his laughter, which doesn’t attract GST nor TDS.
“It is difficult to make people laugh especially in this era of social media. A lot of happenings in day-to-day life are inspirational for our laughter. They used to shoot two episodes a day. And we used to shoot for long hours. So the young man was taken in the role of dadi. It worked out well and we continued. That experiment really worked out. Also, when we use men in such a character, we will get some liberty to use some extra dialogues and it works out well. Also, another reason was girls were rare in comedy, except Bharti Singh.”
He explained how his wife, who was his friend, then bailed him out of his depression. “I never heard of depression before. All I knew was sar dard, pet dard. My life’s big heroine is my mother. I couldn’t share my depression with my mother. But, with god’s grace and my wife’s effort I came out of it. Since the lockdown, I gave more time to my family, especially to the children.” He tried his best to converse in English when his attention was drawn to the comedy he makes on his own. “May god grant you the strength to understand my English, British ruled us so we speak English. Had it been ulta and India had ruled the world, the whole world would have known Hindi and I wouldn’t have had to face the problem. Now my English has improved a lot.”
When asked about his message to his participants, he said why people say ‘Aaj Women’s Day hai’. What does that mean? Every day is a women’s day and every day is your day. Women are adbhuth prani, the god had created.
