How Kapil Sharma turned his sorrows, controversies into jokes: From struggling in Mumbai, battle with depression, and drunk tweets to PM Modi

 

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It has been a constant struggle for Kapil Sharma to maintain his stardom, but he has always found a way to dig his feet in. In the Netflix special, I am Not Done Yet, Kapil spoke about his depression, and brought in humorous angles to it, without taking away the seriousness of it. He recalled the time when people had written him off, and he was fighting with high-profile people on Twitter. Kapil said that he had locked himself in his room, with his retired police dog Zanjeer and watched only Narcos. Remembering the situation, he joked about he made his dog suffer along with him. He also spoke about depression and the lack of awareness in India about the illness. “I didn’t even know I was depressed, I read it in the papers,” he said. He recalled how he went to the therapist, who told him, “You’ve made everyone laugh for all these years, I don’t believe it.” Kapil made a sharp attack saying that he told her, “Maam aap bhi bahut khoobsoorat hain, aap bhi mujhe acche nahin lag rahe (You’re beautiful, but I am not enjoying your presence).” He said that is when she took him seriously.

Kapil even daringly made a joke out of his drunk tweet to PM Narendra Modi, that cost him an expensive escape to the Maldives. He remembered how OB vans had lined up outside his house and he asked his cook, “Is there a fire?” His cook answered, “You set fire to Twitter last night.” Kapil explained his escape to the Maldives to get away from controversy. “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 Rs 9 lakhs, which I didn’t even spend on my education. That one line costed me that much,” he revealed, adding, “I want to sue Twitter.”

 

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He said the microblogging site should have warned his followers that it is a “drunk tweet.” He concluded by mentioning that while some of the tweets are his responsibility, others are results of liquor brands. He also said that he didn’t ‘understand’ the system of the country — if he said something at night, then the person should reply then and there, why carry it on till the next morning? “In the morning, my ideology is different!”

Kapil continues to find ways to entertain—to make people laugh, by showing them that he has just about the same problems as anyone else. And, he gets by, by bringing a touch of humour to it.