Kapil Sharma’s jokes about Sumona Chakravarti’s mouth and lips upset her, Archana Puran Singh had to comfort her: ‘If you can laugh at…’

She added, “I remember Archana sat with me and said ‘why are you upset?’ I said ‘they’ve made fun of my mouth and my lips and everything, and then I didn’t forget the lines he forgot and he said something off script. I’m not a stand-up comedian; I can’t just come up with funny jokes like that. I mean, if I crack a joke, nobody will understand it.’”

 

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Archana told Sumona, “If you can laugh at yourself, you will never feel humiliated. Secondly, about the lip or the mouth part, you have something that women I know, pay money to get.” Sumona said that she was very naïve and explained how she started wearing red lipstick much later in life because she was conscious of her mouth. 

Talking about a celebrity guest whose words have stayed with her, Sumona said, “The only guest ever in 10 years who has always, apart from appreciating the show and Kapil, had said, ‘You know what, Sumona, without you, he doesn’t become the great comedian that he is.’ And that is Ritiesh Deshmukh.”

Sumona said that backstage it is all fun and games with Kapil and the latter even compliments her on her appearance. The actor said that people often ask her about Kapil making fun of her mouth and question her, “How are you a part of this misogynist show?” 

The actor explained, “It’s a script. It’s not that I’m actually the exaggerated version of it. I have now come to terms with it. I am a decent-looking girl, and I have a nice mouth. Also, you have to understand, Kapil is not insulting Sumona. There is a certain banter when two characters are having an argument or they are having a banter with each other, a husband and wife.”