‘The Great Indian Kapil Show’s buzzed-about special on Saturday, starring YouTuber Samay Raina and podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia. Their first team-up comes after the India’s Got Latent backlash triggered lawsuits and career timeouts for both. Kapil Sharma hosted the riot, as the trio roasted each other nonstop. Samay spilled that Kapil warned him via call the day before the mess exploded and dialed him first when it did.
What Kapil Sharma told Samay Raina
Ranveer quizzed Kapil on watching India’s Got Latent episodes, prompting the host to say, “I have watched many episodes. I even called Samay. I called and told him, ‘How is there not a single case against you?’” Samay jumped in: “And I swear, the day my show shut down, sir called me a day before that, he told me something bad is going to happen to you.” Kapil clarified, “I told him that you’re in the limelight now, be careful. I was telling that from experience, I’m not a clairvoyant. You can be famous by saying anything, but once you’re famous, you can’t just say anything.” He highlighted his own brushes with lawsuits from joke content and offhand late-night tweets.
How Samay Raina and Kapil Sharma stayed connected
Last February, Samay Raina and Ranveer Allahbadia’s worlds turned upside down in a flash, hitting them with personal, professional, legal, and money woes from the scandal. Reflecting on the chaos, Samay revealed, “Genuinely, Kapil sir was the first person to call me at that time. I still don’t know whether it was concern or an insult. He said, ‘Samay, just like your good days got over, your bad days will be over soon too’.” He added, “We were waiting for something to happen. Kapil sir also stopped tweeting around then. The first couple of weeks were so quiet. Udit Narayan also stopped kissing people,” which had the crowd roaring with laughter.
What sparked the India’s Got Latent row
On Samay Raina’s show, Ranveer dropped a shocker: asking a contestant if they’d pick daily parental s*x-watching or a one-time join-in to halt it. The raunchy zinger unleashed a firestorm of criticism and lawsuits against everyone on set. Facing FIRs, Samay scrubbed all India’s Got Latent videos from YouTube. Still, they buried the hatchet on The Great Indian Kapil Show, streaming now on Netflix.
