Sumona Chakravarti Confirms ‘There Was No Breakup’ With Kapil Sharma After Working For 10 Years, Defends Misogyny In The Show

Sumona Chakravarti is best known for playing Kapil Sharma’s wife on The Kapil Sharma Show. Kapil returned with his show a year later on Netflix India, as The Great Indian Kapil Show and Sumona is missing from it. With Sumona backing out, rumours about their alleged rift wwere rife.Now Sumona has broken her silence on it and reacted to such claims. She even reacted to show’s format and misogyny portrayal of it.

Sumona Chakravarti on misogyny on Kapil Sharma’s show

In a recent conversation with Indian Express, Sumona defended the alleged misogyny on Kapil’s show and addressed rumours of a rift between them. She said, “It’s a show! It’s a scripted show! What I really believe, and I’ve always told whoever has questioned me, first and foremost, it’s just acting. It’s just a TV show. Kapil is not insulting Sumona. There’s a difference. There’s a character Bittu and his wife Manju. It’s literally what’s happening around in your environment. Yes, there’s a responsibility, but that comes to me as an individual in real life. If tomorrow, I get caught shoplifting, of course that sets a terrible example. But you also need to have that little bit of common sense that there’s a line between real and reel.”

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Talking about their fallout, she clarified, “There was no breakup. We had a wonderful run of 10 years across different networks. Most marriages don’t work for 10 years actually (laughs), but our onscreen one did. Every year, we’d take a break around June-July. We finished our season. I really don’t know. The last time we were on Sony, that got done in 2023. Then he went on his US tour. And the next thing I heard was that he was coming on Netflix. So honestly, there has been no conversation about that between him and me. It’s not like we picked up the call,” she said.

On the work front, Sumona was last seen in Rohit Shetty’s stunt-based reality show, Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 14.

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Aakruti Bagla

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