Mukesh Khanna recently took to his Instagram account to slam The Kapil Sharma Show for its "vulgar" content and revealed why he refused to join the Mahabharat cast on the popular show. Now, after his remarks, his co-star Gajendra Chauhan defended the show, in a recent interview, and said that Mukesh is simply feeling salty about being left out from the reunion episode.
For the uninformed, Gajendra played Prince Yudhishtir in the 1990s show.
In an Instagram post on Sunday, Mukesh had written that he was not a part of the reunion episode because he found The Kapil Sharma Show to be vulgar and cheap.
In an interview with Dainik Bhaskar, Gajendra said, "I think Mukeshji now finds grapes sour because he did not get to eat the grapes. This show has been number one, crores of people watch it and he calls it wahiyat (bad quality). He even said that in the show men dress in women’s clothes. He forgot that even in the Mahabharata, Arjun had dressed up as a girl and danced in a scene, should he have left the show too? Why did Mukeshji not leave Mahabharata at that time? I strongly condemn this behaviour of Mukeshji."
Mukesh had said that his co-star Gufi Paintal had told him that they would be invited on the show after the cast of Ramayana was called. But he decided not to go. Gajendra said that Gufi is not a casting director of the show to invite anybody. Gufi also said that what Mukesh said about the show was wrong. While the channel did ask him to invite Mukesh, he said he wouldn’t go.