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Kapil Sharma - who is known for his humour and his talent to make the audience laugh - has also had his fair share of controversies. The comedian has had many controversies in his life but some of them stood out the most and even made headlines. The actor-turned-standup comedian's disagreements with numerous well-known public figures caused a rift on social media.
Let’s dive into some of his biggest controversies that make it to the headline. In 2016, Kapil Sharma, had posted a tweet tagging Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official handle, he wrote, “I am paying ₹15 cr income tax from last 5 years n still I have to pay 5 lacs bribe to BMC office for making my office @narendramodi.” After the tweet went viral, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis responded to Kapil and assured him that those responsible will be held accountable.
However, he faced criticism for questioning the PM instead of reaching out to BMC or the anti-corruption bureau. On his Netflix comedy special show, Kapil joked about his ‘drunk tweets’ and said, “I left for the Maldives instantly, I lived there for 8-9 days. The moment I reached Maldives, I asked them for a room with no internet.
They asked, ‘Have you got married?’ I replied, ‘No, I just tweeted.’ My stay costed me ₹9 lakhs, which I didn’t even spend on my education. That one line costed me that much.
hai to//- He said Twitter should have warned his followers that it is a “drunk tweet. In another controversy with Sunil Grove, he and Sunil, publicly brawling on a flight gave enough batter to rumour mills. Kapil denied getting into a physical fight with Sunil or Chandan Prabhakar.
At an event, News 18 quoted him as saying, When you move with such a huge team, you have to manage a lot of things and I am really bad at it, I will say that much. Touchwood, we have been working together for many years and I would like to repeat it one more time, I didn't actually fight with Sunil Grover at all. It didn't happen.
Akshay Kumar's conversation with one of the 'famous personalities' about whether he likes eating mangoes was cited by Kapil. The comedian was making reference to the latter's meeting with Prime Minister Modi in 2019 before the Lok Sabha elections. On the show, Akshay had reacted by demanding that he identify the individual.
Despite a number of rumors claiming that Akshay declined to promote his movie Bachchan Pandey on Kapil's show, the two put their differences aside and joined the comedic talk show. In the release of the film The Kashmir Files, Vivek Agnihotri had tweeted, “They refused to call us on their show because we don’t have big commercial star.” However, later Anupam Kher clarified that Kapil Sharma had invited him on the show but he declined as it was a serious subject and unsuitable for a comedy show.
As reported by ETimes, in one of Kapil’s standups, he said that going on a pothole-riddled road can help a poor pregnant woman deliver her baby. A complaint was filed against the comedian by an NGO who reached out to the Maharashtra State Commission for Women..
