Kapil Sharma, the Laughter King, an Incredible Journey from One Meal a Day to a Global Megastar
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This interview was conducted in Punjabi, please see the transcript below if you would like to follow along in English.
In this episode of Feel It In Your Soul Podcast Angelee sits down with global megastar, and her cousin, Kapil Sharma.
They talk about Kapil’s humble upbringing and how he strove to become the superstar he is today. Kapil opens up about his moments of doubt, but ultimately the belief he had in himself to become the King of Comedy.
Kapil had a true make-or-break moment when he could either afford to return home or meet with a television studio. Kapil talks about passion, drive, and trusting yourself - this is truly a story about what it means to Feel It In Your Soul.
In this episode you will hear:
- Kapil’s early life trying to make it as a singer
- What Kapil did when he realised he could only afford the train fare home
- How Kapil convinced a TV studio to greenlight his show
- The time Angelee met Shah Rukh Khan
- How Kapil Sharma became a household name
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Feel In Your Soul is a melting pot of amazing conversations and in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs, celebrities, actors, sporting icons, DJs and movie stars. Host Angelee Sidar sits down with her illustrious guests to delve into the true stories and anecdotes of those who have attained impressive levels of success to discover their journey and the key moments where their souls directed them towards their destiny.
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Angelee Sidar
So welcome to fill in your soul. Everyone who. So today I have a very special guest, someone very close to my heart introducing multi-award-winning comedian, presenter, actor, producer, amazing singer and a wonderful father, a loving husband, doting son, and honestly, a truly inspiring and loving brother. Welcome Kappu (Kapil) Sharma everyone.
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Kapil Sharma
Thank you. Angelee, for having me on your beautiful show. So let me tell our audience the one thing, that she's my cousin's sister. So in between the show, I will call her Dibi. So don't be that shocked.
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Angelee Sidar
I think everybody will start calling me Didi.
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Kapil Sharma
No, no, no.
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Angelee Sidar
So couple I want to say, first of all, a big, big. Thank you. Thank you. When I called you up and I said couple, I've got this idea in my mind that I want to do. And you said, Of course to do. Of course you can do it. So thank you for giving me the opportunity.
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Kapil Sharma
I'm so proud of you. Oh.
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Angelee Sidar
It came. It came in my mind, actually, over lockdown. I really start to think about just from my own personal journey, how things had changed at pivotal times in my life. And I thought, I really want to do a podcast which finds those moments where we listen to our soul and then we go and act on it and we can really change the trajectory of our life.
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Angelee Sidar
And the first person that came in my mind was you. So thank you for saying that. Honestly, thank you for. So I want to start with short a couple little Nicole couple running around them. Reza. What were you like when you were younger?
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Kapil Sharma
Both daughter? Well, I mean, to see.
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Angelee Sidar
Him develop and jump, people.
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Kapil Sharma
Would love to speak in Tamil in a moment ago on and I'm ready to oh so now I'm ready to is in the actually. So man you better when I'm bored but I mean yeah he madcap us and Carter or Kuki your article district give them a whole you know just regular time. That be three charities immediately be social media that whatever PBB what do you see you got immediately you know so many hospitals get grandma TV the acne to the meaning in the I'm in of my own sure arena yeah so how my generation going to do it peacefully so I'm I had the at a minor party no not the domain assembly itself
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Kapil Sharma
I just see someone the TV they can not tell it to the batsman may gunning on tell it, others will not tell it. Other uh Bucky Bucky Malcolm But I'm going to make Kappa Mudgee Bert Gay Film School. My school mate Mike. You know, Peak time it up a little bit now, which we didn't tell you but excited for this opportunity that normally that's a but to do so many father comedy you may act as dictator mission one was your brother of promote the but I support bigoted Aggie big school Meghan and Alia a college MC which college maj up to college middle academy The graduation letter on that you submitted the met function?
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Kapil Sharma
Yep. Kageyama There you go. But don't get too many other should do that so but here you to literally she's a girl but only got mama Angelique and jellyfish over bones get.
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Angelee Sidar
A thank you cover but I. I remember like also when that came out Fiji my three Punjabi very Hindi is like fluently Hindi like you see.
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Kapil Sharma
Another good looking.
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Angelee Sidar
Guy like you see like with my c g She loves singing. Do you think you got your musicality from her?
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Kapil Sharma
Actually guess. I mean, actually my media up and I had a musical Elder Sean Garner Yeah, all the cats he goes here for the Richie guys I'm in Punjabi, not for mommy. He got to listen. Give me.
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Angelee Sidar
The.
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Kapil Sharma
Leverage.
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Angelee Sidar
Yeah.
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Kapil Sharma
They meaning bus men, women will take on this one now at the one given a TV show which I'll get on, but I met him Monday That show minimum producer Mike for Google and digital magic. But bunch of my minions need to go in agony because I that the the lead the monumental video on the show Ogunlesi minute on.
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Angelee Sidar
Both Sony.
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Kapil Sharma
And Lala the met to look at a cute lead the new Lionel Mitchell two things are different that Bella what could you me now so I think huh you're not to to question whichever key key or the men on Netflix takes that look what is it you're mad is it going to get this lucky giraffe dreams he got him artist But now you share the miracle little dream music.
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Kapil Sharma
I made a father dream dreams ago. You know, all Mad men, no matter the quality, whichever don't have an opinion which photographs the Kenya. Yeah. Which all black identity. Oh, you go to measure the result of father we are to stay that the luggage of the refugees coming and call it a bit of songs by disparate guitar human folk from I admire the question Lindsay nitty to Sammy did the he played the piano I play the cake and give it articulate analogy they play they key to fail me and get with them.
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Kapil Sharma
Every artist here, maybe two.
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Angelee Sidar
Or.
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Kapil Sharma
All dream.
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Angelee Sidar
No, that's.
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Kapil Sharma
All fear all I think or dream or not obviously. Go get the nugget, the mirror, he said. Jockey. So momentum going back long cigar mamu dirty and a lot of them that much but opposite in a lot of this ego to me facilitating invisibility give anything like this a little bit good to have somebody the man bring it on and it cannot be made a shoulder which would be a surgical midwife did not so marital comedy to make it been Mary Mahbubani Joe the opening I me I think the undemanding massively the all good then I get the Mario shoulder which it to be another on the give you the necessary just study upbringings are
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Kapil Sharma
be we did this early Jeremy Jose all the.
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Angelee Sidar
And g.
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Kapil Sharma
Subdue personality duties on the any it's also figures of the whole community gone but younger or maybe mom and father of Bush oxycodone. But the artist shared how obviously being near there huh so.
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Angelee Sidar
No no no, absolutely not. In fact many other I remember when I first came to India.
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Kapil Sharma
It was, you know, the airport, the tricky to figure to either go to America really believes it straight. I was there.
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Angelee Sidar
Let's see. The London Open Job by Mary Bailey like experience was not in a city, Delhi or Mumbai. It was straight to Punjab, right? So to the my eyes, my first time in India, first time meeting my family. Right. And one thing that I really remember was the love. There was so much love there, even though I met for the first time when I was 24, when we other like Pooja, had a picture of me when I was a teenager.
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Angelee Sidar
I think my nanny Ma brought it and she had it in a room. She goes into the day, I have got your picture and we know and none of the jerk, even though was so appalled. Yeah, we live thousands of miles away. Still yours when the air. You think that's my family there? The other thing I remember is that we stayed at your house for a bit, and then we stayed in a hotel.
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Angelee Sidar
And I remember that you said, I'm going to bring some of my friends and we were going to with your band and you came with your bond and you were so good. Honestly, I mean, Sita, we sat there and went, Oh my God, so good, right? And then you said, Did you know somebody in London or what? You asked my mum What?
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Angelee Sidar
You don't look at that sun. But, but I could see that you had this thing in your I get I'll knock on as many doors as I need to, but I'm so like, laser focused, like this is what I want. Where did that come from? Where did that feeling come from, that or that kind of mindset that you're so focused?
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Kapil Sharma
Do the actor up on the If you do, we got too much on the map and if father on the job they were police the job any tank less job it agreed official shooting you know not even Sunday or even Diwali. Wow But mentally that could have been a bit of a joke. Family dinner. From there, we can see Bardem there.
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Kapil Sharma
Many other guys are definitely there which could be jump this thing Ibaka because I love Yahoo data, but the actual team is really good. Okay, Google dating year we're going to but then in that you got island off etc. so a minute ago key Monoshock so you're gonna feed Colette your community traditional to the middle of Gujarat.
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Angelee Sidar
You.
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Kapil Sharma
Get the delays we didn't come to deliver you we can let you do otherwise couldn't couldn't come was only as in ghetto so iqoo shark. This is a good jiggle to see. But your focus.
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Angelee Sidar
Yeah.
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Kapil Sharma
Keep Diana so I think Merkel option going easy. Gilkey There you got him. And you've got the North Korean city government, your military village of mislabeling, cholera and now competition. I mean, population is elegant region for me, no, but that's a good business to handle. And he did temper but I got to give you compared to the a nerve which we're not going to give you the broom but thanks every time that option is and you did a really job and I think we should be the one holding the Yeah.
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Kapil Sharma
The memory is you in like Italy. Erdogan I get one minute but I think I'm a little put you do we got a numbers up he got an hour You know the fear bus bomb which are funny those unable to remember the AC in Bombay on AC Milan in Bombay again. So when I first came to me I was 22, 21 to get ready to the minute actually killed because I had only 1200 rupees get a miracle to his he Oh my God, Those are the DNA, the phenomena that gave it.
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Kapil Sharma
He can do time. Colonel Carla nicknamed the timing of the bomb, which offered up on me. Which, Yes, alluded to keylogger going on. They didn't. She said if we do cornea it, go to the colony. Good job in colony. The time as I started with would you passing But Merkel had cut this up the other medical staff before put out us the fantasy instead of 3%.
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Kapil Sharma
But here and research on the bus.
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Angelee Sidar
While.
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Kapil Sharma
On the road it can get cold.
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Angelee Sidar
To see.
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Kapil Sharma
And yeah, it quickly got to see little get in the freezer to come grab Fritzi Charming Nero cash I telling you about the mummy Mary had on high Merriman didn't kill again so people could put the log out evil they but anyways at least you keep on this year could another one Nancy got the news or stop looking which additionally Brittany sure does.
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Kapil Sharma
Yeah yeah so audition we fear mineral to select guitar you remember by at a minimum integrity.
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Angelee Sidar
Oh wow.
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Kapil Sharma
So he's the same producer.
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Angelee Sidar
That the first time when going on a plane.
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