Gajendra Chauhan Responds To Mukesh Khanna Calling Kapil Sharma Show Vulgar, Says He Should Have Mahabharat Too

In September that the entire cast of BR Chopra’s Mahabharat graced The Kapil Sharma Show. The episode was filled with nostalgic tales about the shoot of the iconic TV show. Actors like Nitish Bharadwaj, Gufi Paintal, Gajendra Chauhan, Arjun and Puneet Issar related various anecdotes from the shooting of the serial as well. However, Mukesh Khanna who played Bhishma Pitahmah in Mahabharat was nowhere to be seen. When he was asked about his absence, Mukesh called The Kapil Sharma Show tasteless and vulgar. He stated that the jokes cracked on the show are cheap and had double meanings. He also stated that Archana Puran Singh who is a guest judge on the show fakes her laughter just for the sake of money. 

Mukesh took to his Instagram and wrote in Hindi, "This question that has gone viral is why Bheeshma Pitamah wasn’t a part of the Mahabharat special episode on The Kapil Sharma Show. Some say I wasn’t invited. Some say I refused myself. It is true that Mahabharata is incomplete without Bhishma. It is true that there is no question of not inviting. It is also true that I was the one to reject the invitation. This is also the truth that people would ask me why would I reject a popular show like that. The biggest actors go there. They might go but Mukesh Khanna will not go! Gufi asked me the same question that those people are going to invite us after Ramayan's cast. I said, all of you go, I will not go. I was the one to refuse. The reason is that even though the Kapil Show is popular all over the country, I don’t think there is a worse show than this. This show is 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. They place someone on the throne in the center. Their job is to laugh, even if the laughter is not real. They get money for it. Before this, Siddhu used to sit for this work. Now Archana does it. And what is their job? Just to laugh," mulled the actor. 

And now, Gajendra Chauhan snapped back at the actor during an interview to Dainik Bhaskar. he asked why didn’t Mukesh leave Mahabharat when Arjun too dressed up as a girl and danced if he has a problem with cross-dressing at all, “I think Mukeshji now finds grapes sour because he did not get to eat the grapes. This show has been number one, crores of people watch it and he calls it wahiyat (trashy). He even said that in the show men dress in women’s clothes. He forgot that even in the Mahabharata, Arjun had dressed up as a girl and danced in a scene, should he have left the show too? Why did Mukeshji not leave Mahabharata at that time? I strongly condemn this behaviour of Mukeshji.”