Because the team ate before him

Another daily has mentioned that even Chandan Prabhakar, Ali Asgar have boycotted the show

Much has been written about the Kapil Sharma-Sunil Grover fight on an Air India Melbourne-Delhi-Mumbai flight on last Friday.

A leading daily from India has claimed that it has a minute to minute detail the happening.  It quoted a sources that was on the flight, “Kapil had consumed an entire bottle of Glenfiddich whisky, and was visibly drunk. When the food was being served by the cabin crew, his team ,the crew and cast of Kapil’s TV show, The Kapil Sharma Show, who had gone to Australia for a show) started to eat. This angered Kapil, who was still finishing his drink.

“Jab maine khaana shuru nahi kiya toh tum logo ne kaise le liya khaana?” he shouted, well within the ear shot of co-passengers. The eye-witness has revealed to the daily from India, that Kapil’s co-stars looked so startled that they started returning their half-finished food trays to the crew. At this point, Sunil Grover tried to calm Kapil down, who then started yelling at him. “Kapil got up, took off his shoe, and hit Sunil,” the daily has reported. “He also pulled Sunil’s collar, and repeatedly slapped him.”

In the scuffle that broke out in the aisle, a female crew member of Kapil’s also got hit. “Grover tried to keep his calm and was trying to tell Kapil to not create a scene. By this time, Kapil’s abuses were so loud that he could be heard also where the economy class passengers were sitting. When the cabin crew asked Kapil’s team to calm him down, they refused and said they were scared. Kapil shouted at his team and said, “Tum logon ko maine banaya hai. Sabka career khatam kar dunga. Tum TV waale kya samajhte ho? Sabko nikaal dunga main,”  the daily quoted the source.  To Sunil Grover, he kept repeating, “Gaya tha na tu toh. Aaya na waapas mere hi paas” (in reference to Sunil quitting Kapil’s show, Comedy Nights with Kapil, earlier to start his own on a rival channel, and later returning to the show after failing to get enough TRPs) .

“While yelling, Kapil also kept loudly abusing in Punjabi. At some point, the cabin crew told Kapil that they would have to call security on landing, if he didn’t stop. He, however, kept repeating, “Arrey yeh log samajhte kya hai. In sab ka career meri wajah se hai,” says the source.

Chandan Prabhakar who plays the ‘chaiwalla’ and Ali Asgar who plays the character of ‘nani’, boycotted the shooting for the show recently. According to a report in yet another daily,  Sunil, Chandan and Ali did not turn up for the shooting on Monday. The show was hosting the Naam Shabana team and only Kiku Sharda, Rochelle Rao and Sumona Chakravarti were available for the shoot after which turned the situation tense after which Kapil’s team called up other comedians like Ahsaan Qureshi, Raju Shrivastava and Sunil Pal for the day’s shooting.

Chandan Prabhakar told an entertainment website that he did not show up for the shooting on Tuesday. He said, “Yes, I am not shooting with Kapil today. They called me but I refused. I told them that I am unavailable.” Yet another TV channel from India mentioned that Sunil Grover is unlikely to return the way things are. Ali and Chandan are also staying away from the show. While Navjot Singh Sidhu has said he will stay with the show, how long can he manage with his new political commitments.

Kapil Sharma Show is faced with tough times.