Firangi: When Kapil Sharma became Akshay Kumar to lose weight

Mumbai : Days before the release of his Netflix special "Kapil Sharma: I’m Not Done Yet", the comedian had a chit chat session with stand-up comedian Anubhav Singh Bassi.

In the video, Anubhav Singh asks Kapil Sharma about his inspiration to start his career in comedy. Kapil said that he first performed during an inter-college festival and after seeing the audience’s response, he thought he might have a future in comedy.

The actor-comedian added, “My teachers used to call me nikamma. I said kuch to hai, ye karna hai aage chal ke” (My teachers thought I was useless, but I knew what I wanted. I wanted to do comedy).

They also discussed about Kapil Sharma's healthy lifestyle phase during the movie "Firangi".

“I had become Akshay Kumar. I was 72 kgs then. Again I have become 92, you know, because my film flopped,” Kapil mentioned.

In the concluding comments, Kapil Sharma said, "Jab tak duniya hai comedy hoti rahegi (As long as there’s this world, we will always have comedy). I have learnt some embroidery work too incase comedy doesn’t work out."