The Kapil Sharma Show hosted by comedian Kapil Sharma often invites Bollywood stars to promote their upcoming movies on the show. Almost all popular stars including Salman khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay kumar, Deepika Padukone have been seen on the show doing fun and promote their movies.
However, Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files, which is set to release on March 11, won’t be promoted on the show. When fans took to social media to request Vivek Agnihotri to come on The Kapil Sharma Show to promote The Kashmir Files, the filmmaker claimed that the comedian and the TKSS team refused to get them on the show, as his film did not have popular stars.
The Kashmir Files is based on the lives of Kashmiri Pandits and is inspired by true events. Anupam Kher and Mithun Chakraborty can be seen in the lead roles. When a fan requested Agnihotri to promote the movie on The Kapil Sharma Show, he replied that he is nobody to decide if he can promote the film on the show.
“I don’t get to decide who should be invited on @KapilSharmaK9 show. It’s his and his producer’s choice whom he wants to invite. As far as Bollywood is concerned, I’d say what once Mr. Bachchan was quoted saying about Gandhis: Vo raja hai hum rank (sic),” read his tweet.
Vivek's comments have upset the netizens who are now calling “bycott of Kapil Sharma”. Netizens believe not inviting the movie stars on the show reflects the hypocrisy of the comedian.
Meanwhile, Kapil Sharma has not made any comments about the allegations led by Vivek Agnihotri as of yet.