Kapil Sharma skips The Great Indian Laughter Challenge shoot. Here’s why

Shared a source with indianexpress.com, “Kapil gave a go ahead last night and the shoot was planned for today. The team waited for a while but seeing no trace of Kapil started the acts in the hope that he could join later on. His team later in the afternoon informed that Kapil wasn’t keeping well and it won’t be possible for him to join the shoot. Though the team has been left disappointed, knowing Kapil’s health concerns, we wish he recovers soon.”

At the trailer launch of Firangi, Kapil had spoken his heart out on how difficult life had turned out to be in recent times for him. He had also shared that he was depressed and got suicidal and his friends finally managed to pull him out of it. Talking on how panic attacks got his work to suffer, he told media, “I could not step on the stage to perform and would cancel the shoot. I suffered from anxiety and drank myself silly. I would stay locked up in the office with my pet dog. People stopped coming on the show and I went off the radar.”

The comedy star was recently seen on Bigg Boss 11 where he had a gala time interacting with the contestants and host Salman Khan. He has also shot for a special episode of Super Dancer 2 which will air soon. Firangi, that also stars Ishita Dutta, Monica Gill, Edward Sonnenblick, Rajesh Sharma, Inaamulhaq, Aanjjan Srivastav among others is slated to release on November 24.