‘Gehraiyaan’ director Shakun Batra recently appeared in an episode of ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’ along with cast members Deepika Padukone, Ananya Panday, Siddhant Chaturvedi, and Dhairya Karwa. The troupe played a game and performed skits on the comic talk show.  

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Batra also featured in an episode of Ranveer Allahbadia’s podcast. Sharing his experience of being on ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’, he said, “Honestly, I hadn’t really followed the whole show. I’d heard it was funny, and people were like, ‘It’s lowbrow’ and whatever. But I didn’t care. I had been shooting for the last year-and-a-half, and I had all this weight. I had just delivered the film four days ago and the next day, I was still waking up with the weight of the film. I went there with no expectation and there, I started to just laugh and laugh more. By the end, I realised I had forgotten about my film.”

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“When I left I thought, dude, I would pay to be in the audience to just watch this. When I went home, I slept and I woke up at 10 in the morning, which had not happened for two years. I had been waking up at 6.30-7 with the whole anxiety of making a film,” Batra said.

He added, “I think in some way, he healed me that night with his humour. I genuinely don’t know how funny it would be when it comes out but I just tuned in.” Shakun said that he talked to Deepika and Ananya about how there might have been something in the air at the sets that made them laugh so much.”

On the show, host Kapil Sharma made the film’s cast play Chinese whispers, a popular game. The cast also sat down to discuss the experience of shooting the film. 

 ‘Gehraiyaan’ is Batra’s third film after ‘Ekk Main Aur Ekk Tu’ and ‘Kapoor and Sons’.