The Kapil Sharma Show.

Premise

The format is largely identical of Sharma's former show Comedy Nights with Kapil. The kapil sharma Show revolves around Kapil Sharma and his team of comedians, including Sumona Chakravarti, Kiku Sharda, Chandan Prabhakar, Krushna Abhishek, Bharti Singh and Rochelle Rao, who play residents of the Shantivan Non-cooperative Housing Society. Normally every episode unfolds in two parts with the first part being a comic skit enacted by the actors of the show and the second part being the celebrity interview where popular personalities from various fields indulge in a light-hearted interaction with karma. Navjot Singh Sidhu was the permanent guest of the show but was later replaced by Archana Puran Singh after 16 February 2019.

Cast

Season 1

Kapil Sharma as Himself (Host) / Kappu Sharma / Inspector Shamsher Singh / Chappu / Rajesh Arora / Gapu / Tapu / Khatrughan Sinha (Shatrughan Sinha's mimic) / Navjot Sidhu's mimic

Sunil Grover as Dr. Mashoor Gulati / Rinku Devi /Amitabh Bachchan's mimic / Dharmendra Singh's mimic/ Navjot Sidhu's mimic

Ali Asgar as Nani / Begum Luchi / Amitabh Bachchan's mimic / Mr. Gulati (Mashoor's father)

Kiku Sharda as Bumper Lottery (Nurse in 50-50 Hospital) / Santosh (Rinku's sister-in-law) / Inspector Damodar Ishwarlal Gaitonde / Bachcha Yadhav (Milkman) / Achcha Yadhav (Bachcha's twin brother) / Sunny Deol's mimic

Bharti Singh as Babli Mausi / Lalli

Chandan Prabhakar as Chandu (CEO of Dubai tea stall) / Shah Rukh Khan's mimic

Sumona Chakravarti as Sarla Gulati (Mashoor's daughter; Kappu's childhood friend and Chandu's love interest)

Navjot Singh Sidhu as Guest

Naseem Vicky as Chiku (Twinkle's husband and Film Producer)

Paresh Ganatra as an auto driver and various characters

Rajiv Thakur as a policeman and various characters

Upasana Singh as Twinkle (Kappu's neighbour and old friend of Dr. Mashoor Gulati)

Sanket Bhosale as Baba (Sanjay Dutt's mimic)

Siddharth Sagar as Omerian Khurana (Khajoor's School Principal)

Season 2, 3

Kapil Sharma as Himself (Host) / Kappu Sharma (Owner of Sharma Bandhu Salah-Center) / Rajesh Arora / Shatrughan Sinha's mimic / Chappu Sharma / Inspector Shamsher Singh / Navjot Singh Sidhu's mimic

Kiku Sharda as Bachcha Yadhav (Milkman; father of 11 children) / Achcha Yadhav (Bachcha's twin brother) / Sunny Deol's mimic (Funny Deol) / Dhaniram

Sumona Chakravarti as Bhoori (Titli's sister; Chandu's love interest)

Chandan Prabhakar as Chandu (Advisor at Sharma's Salah Center) / Keerthi Laal / Bimla Devi / Shakal / Chandni (Chandu's mother)

Krushna Abhishek as Himself / Sapna Laal Sharma (Owner of Sapna Beauty Parlor; Kapil's sister) / Akshay Kumar's, Amitabh Bachchan's, Jackie Shroff's, Sanjay Dutt's, Archana Puran Singh's, Jeetendra's, Dharmendra's mimic (Dharam Singh Nakli/Garam Paaji) / Ramlal / Mitti Mouse (a spoof of Mickey Mouse)

Bharti Singh as Titli Yadav (Bachcha's wife; mother of 11 children) / Guddu (Bachcha and Titli's eldest son) / Kammo Bhua (Kappu's aunt) / Archana Puran Singh's mimic

Rochelle Rao as Chingaari (Robert's sister)

Edward Sonnenblick as Robert Paswan (Chingaari's brother)

Navjot Singh Sidhu as Previous Permanent Guest

Archana Puran Singh as Permanent Guest (current)

Harbhajan Singh in a guest appearance for two episodes

Rajiv Thakur as Thakur and various characters

Karishma Sharma as various characters

Season 4

Kapil Sharma as Himself (Host) / Kappu Sharma / Rajesh Arora / Shatrughan Sinha mimic / Chappu Sharma / Inspector Shamsher Singh / Navjot Singh Sidhu's mimic / Chedulal Ji

Kiku Sharda as Sunny Deol mimic / Dhaniram / Advocate Mr. Damodar / Achcha Yadav

Sudesh Lehri as Chacha (Kappu's uncle) / Arijit Singh mimic

Bharti Singh as Herself / Chachi (Chacha's wife)

Sumona Chakravarti as Bhoori (Owner of Hotel Chill Palace)

Chandan Prabhakar as Chandu (Owner of 10 Star General Store) / Keerthi Laal / Bimla Devi / Shakal / Chandni (Chandu's mother)

Krushna Abhishek as Himself / Sapna Laal Sharma (Owner of Sapna Beauty Parlor; Kappu's sister) / Akshay Kumar mimic / Amitabh Bachchan mimic / Jackie Shroff mimic / Sanjay Dutt mimic / Dharmendra mimic (Dharam Singh Nakli) / Archana Puran Singh mimic / Jeetendra mimic / Lalit / Mitti Mouse (a spoof of Mickey Mouse) / Ramlal

Archana Puran Singh as Permanent Guest

Rajiv Thakur as Thakur and various characters

Rochelle Rao as Mr. Damodar's assistant

Jamie Lever as Various characters

Season 5

Kapil Sharma as Kappu Sharma / Himself (Host)

Kiku Sharda as Gudiya Laundrywali / Badshah Akbar / Baccha Yadav / Advocate Mr. Damodar / Funny Deol (Sunny Deol mimic)

Archana Puran Singh as Permanent Guest

Sumona Chakravarti as Bindu Sharma, Kappu's wife

Krushna Abhishek as Himself / Sapna Laal / Jackie Shroff mimic / Jeetendra mimic / Garam Paaji (Dharmendra mimic) / Mithun Chakrabharti (Mithun Chakraborty) mimic

Manju Brijnandan Sharma as Bindu's mother

Atul Parchure as Bindu's father

Srishty Rode as Ghazal

Gaurav Dubey as various characters

Rajiv Thakur as Raju

Rehman Khan as Salim

Ketan Singh as Churan / Pankaj Tripathi mimic

Jayvijay Sachan as Various characters

Karishma Sharma as Shanti Devi, Bindu's childhood friend

Kangna Sharma as Herself

Siddharth Sagar as Ustaad Gharchhod Das / Ranveer Singh mimic

Ishtiyak Khan as Kapil's father in law

Chandan Prabhakar as Chandu

Srikant Maski as Maski

Series overview

Controversy

On 31 August 2017, the spokesperson of Sony Entertainment Television announced that Kapil Sharma and the channel have mutually agreed to give the show a short break as the shooting of several episodes had to be cancelled in the past few days due to Sharma's poor health. The show started losing TRP post Sharma's mid-air altercation with co-star Sunil Grover. After that, his health started deteriorating which made him skip the show for a couple of episodes. After the controversy, Grover left the show along with Chandan Prabhakar, Ali Asgar and some other cast members. Prabhakar returned to the show along with Bharti Singh appearing in recurring episodes. The show went off air in 2017. The second season took to the telecast in December 2018. Singh and Krushna Abhishek joined the show as new cast.

The show was also in controversy when film director Vivek Agnihotri said that the star cast of his movie The Kashmir Files was not invited to the show because the film does not have a commercial star cast. Later, film actor Anupam Kher, who starred in the film, denied allegations of Vivek Agnihotri.

Reception

The Kapil Sharma Show's first season received a mixed reception from critics and audiences. Namrata Thakker of Rediff.com gave it 2.5 stars out of 5 stars, liking the characters of Sunil Grover and Ali Asgar but saying that "the series has big shoes to fill considering how successful their earlier show Comedy Nights With Kapil was." Chaya Unnikrishnan of Daily News and Analysis gave the series two stars out of five but said, "Kapil Sharma's wit and funny one-liners bring a laugh". Although she praised part of the show ("In fact, the 10 minutes or so where [Sharma] has a monologue is the best part of the show"), Unnikrishnan called it "dull and disappointing". In her 1.5-star review, Letty Mariam Abraham of Mid-Day said: "The whole look and feel of the new set is interesting, even if the jokes are old". However, "Kapil brings nothing new to the plate and it seems like a waste of the prime time slot." The season 2 of the show got a favourable opening according Broadcast Audience Research Council ratings, with 8.1 million impressions.

Viewer response

According to the reports published by the Broadcast Audience Research Council, the show's first episode of the show generated 8,943 responses. Although, some viewers were happy to see the same contestants back after watching Comedy Nights with Kapil, others were disappointed with the show's repetitive humour and chaos. The series' 16th episode, featuring the Sairat team and airing on 12 June 2016, had better ratings in the non-fiction category.