SCOOP: Baba Siddiqui does it again; Kapil Sharma and Sunil Grover bonded at his Iftaar Party in 2023

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In December 2023, Netflix released a quirky video announcing a new show featuring Kapil Sharma, Sunil Grover, Archana Puran Singh and others. The video became a talking point not just for its fun quotient but also because it meant Kapil Sharma and Sunil Grover reuniting after a hiatus. Both used to work together on the much-loved comic TV series ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’. In March 2017, they fought on a flight. Kapil was allegedly drunk when he hit Sunil, which led to the latter quitting the show. As a result, their reunion is significant. And Bollywood Hungama has learned that Baba Siddiqui, the politician who ended Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan’s fight, was in a way also responsible for Kapil Sharma and Sunil Grover’s joint comeback.

A source told Bollywood Hungama, “In 2013, history was made at Baba Siddiqui’s Iftaar party. Shah Rukh and Salman were not on talking terms for nearly five years. But on that fateful day, they came together and hugged, leading to jubilation in the industry and among fans. Ten years later, history repeated at his 2023 Iftaar party where Kapil Sharma and Sunil Grover met and bonded really well. 6 months later, the announcement of their Netflix show dropped.”

Interestingly, the Netflix video also hints at their mid-air fracas. Kapil Sharma tells viewers that “(Sunil and I) are going to be in more than 190 countries (through our new show).” At this, Sunil Grover, “Except for Australia,” since the flight was returning to Mumbai from Down Under when the fight occurred. Sunil even jokes, “We won’t go by air. We’ll go by road!” A similar joke is cracked by Sunil in the recently released announcement video, ‘The Great Indian Kapil Show’ of the same show.

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