Bharti Singh's Lalli Was Discovered By Rajiv Thakur; Kapil Sharma 'Rolled On Floor' After Act: 'Who's This Girl'
Kapil Sharma and Rajiv Thakur, close friends since their career beginnings, mentored Bharti Singh at DAV College. Rajiv discovered Bharti's Lalli character and shared the story on a podcast.
Kapil Sharma and Rajiv Thakur have been close friends ever since they started their careers together. Rajiv, who discovered Bharti Singh’s famous Lalli character, recently shared the story on a podcast with Bharti and Harsh Limbachiya. Rajiv, along with Sudesh Lehri and Kapil Sharma, was one of Bharti’s theatre mentors at DAV College in Amritsar. He talked about how he once challenged Kapil to watch Bharti perform as Lalli, and how Bharti remains grateful for his support.
Rajiv also mentioned a time when he overheard Bharti mimicking an uncle’s voice during a scene. He was impressed by how she did the Lalli voice, even without punchlines. Later, during a zonal contest, his skit placed second, despite tough competition from nearby areas. He recalled, “There was no punch in her lines, it was just the Lalli voice that had a ticklish feeling. Right after that, there was a zonal contest in which my skit scored the second position for the first time. Everyone was disheartened because zonal is between Amritsar and Gurdaspur (in Punjab), while finals will also have Jalandhar competing with us. They thought how will we win there?"
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Rajiv came back inside and asked Bharti, He recalled, “I said, ‘What were you doing’. She was so scared and said, ‘Kuch nahi kar rahi thi (I wasn’t doing anything)’. I swear on my mom, I haven’t done anything. All of them were scared that sir heard everything. I said, ‘Do again whatever you were doing’. She fell on my feet and kept saying, ‘I didn’t do anything, they made me do it’."
He added, “I told her that I liked it, I can get you the first position if you do it. I took half an hour only to write her part again. I kept only Bharti’s act for good five minutes, which was actually supposed to be a minute. Isko naam maine diya Lalli (I gave her the name). I asked her to laugh to deliver the punch, I gave her a laughter before the joke."
Kapil Sharma was also eager to see her perform. Bharti said, “Yes, Kapil bhai said that I am only here from Jalandhar to see your act. I also want to see who is this girl on whom Rajiv is putting so much money. He was actually rolling on the floor laughing by the end of the act," said Rajiv.
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