Indian Television actress Sumona Chakravarti who is well known for her role of wife in the Kapil Sharma comedy show has revealed about a joke made by Kapil Sharma related to her lips makes her feel bad. She also said that most of the time people use to question her, “How are you a part of this misogynist show?”
“The initial days were a little challenging because I remember they made fun of my mouth. They tried it in the very first episode to crack a joke on my mouth, and it didn’t work. It fell flat, and not one soul laughed. Then they dropped it, and eventually, in the other shows, it sort of worked. And I remember I felt really bad,” Sumona told The Habit Coach as quoted by Indian Express.
Additionallay, Sumona also revealed how it was Archana Puran Singh who comforted her and 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.'”
Not just this, Archana also told Sumona, ‘If you can laugh at yourself, you will never feel humiliated’.
However, Sumona also clarified that even though Kapil mocks her onstage, he often compliments her about her looks behind the camera. “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,” she concluded.
