'They tarnished a pure character like Shaktimaan': Mukesh Khanna reveals why his anger with Kapil Sharma goes way back

For the past few days, veteran actor Mukesh Khanna has been vocal about slamming Kapil Sharma's show on his Instagram for its content. Mukesh, who played Bhishma Pitamah on Mahabharat, was not a part of a special reunion episode on Kapil's show that featured other actors from BR Chopra’s magnum opus.

After a long clarification on why he skipped the show, now, in a video message, Mukesh has said that his anger with Kapil Sharma goes back a few years. "Kapil had done a little skit on his show featuring Shaktimaan. At the time, Krushna Abhishek also worked with him. Maybe it was in Comedy Circus. Kapil Sharma did a little skit wherein he was in the Shaktimaan costume and a girl was standing some distance away. There was a bed too. It is shown that Shaktimaan moves towards the girl but gets a call, so he flies away. He comes back and the same thing happens again."

He further added that he had called Krushna Abhishek after watching it as he was angry at the skit. 

 

 

 

 

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 Oct 6, 2020 at 3:56am PDT

Mukesh said, "I said, 'What are you doing? You are showing a pure character like Shaktimaan in such a light?' Krushna told me that he was supposed to do the skit but Kapil wanted to do it instead. I said, 'How do you tarnish a character's image like this? Who allows you? Is there no censor to examine the content?' This is the problem. There is neither censorship of ads nor such shows and even films. The new generation which films by copying foreign films, forgetting the fact that their culture is not the same as ours." 

 

 

 

 

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Oct 3, 2020 at 10:14pm PDT

In an earlier post about skipping the special reunion episode, Mukesh had said, "The reason is that even though the Kapil Show is popular all over the country, I do not think there is a worse show than this. This show is full of 'fuhadpana', full of double meaning words, taking a turn towards vulgarity with every moment. In which the men wear women’s clothes, do cheap things and people laugh, holding their stomachs."