Anukalp Goswami interview: On making Kapil Sharma’s ‘Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2’ and secularising the comedy

It doesn’t hap often that a movie returns to theatres wrong conscionable the span of a month. Last year, Anupam Kher’s 2nd directorial, Tanvi The Great, took that measurement aft being massively sidelined, arsenic it released alongside Mohit Suri’s romanticist blockbuster Saiyaara, on July 18. Kher decided to re-release the movie erstwhile again successful September. A akin destiny follows Kapil Sharma’s Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2, a lively comedy-drama that released connected December 12, 2025 and struggled to get screens successful the aftermath of Aditya Dhar’s actioner, Dhurandhar.

Anukalp Goswami, who wrote and directed Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2, says that the film’s shows were lined up astatine unusual hours. “A batch of radical reached retired to america saying that they wanted to ticker the film, but couldn’t arsenic the shows were timed aboriginal successful the greeting oregon precocious into the night. They were besides reacting positively to the trailer. So, we thought of getting it backmost successful theatres, arsenic determination is an excitement successful audiences to ticker it,” says the manager up of the film’s re-release connected January 9.

The relation of Anukalp and Kapil goes backmost a agelong way. He has been penning for Kapil’s drama speech amusement since 2013. Anukalp presently serves arsenic the manager of The Great Indian Kapil Show, which has been streaming connected Netflix since 2024. He feels that years of moving with the actor-comedian person brought their ways of reasoning into sync.

“We some close each different and springiness honorable feedback to amended our work. We person besides formed a level of comfortableness with each other, which makes it easier to pass if thing is not moving well,” Anukalp says.

It was besides portion touring with Kapil for the amusement successful the US that Anukalp got the archetypal thought for Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2: what if a antheral gets embroiled successful a matrimony with 3 women from antithetic religions? “I recovered the thought absorbing and felt that thing similar this is imaginable lone successful India, wherever determination is simply a co-existence betwixt radical of antithetic religions,” Anukalp says.

The movie besides marks his directorial debut, extending the sketchy quality of his tv penning to the operation of a diagnostic film. The comedy-drama isn’t conscionable astir gags but follows the halfway emotion of Mohan, played by Kapil. Anukalp says that helium was wide astir focusing connected the character’s motivations.

“We wanted each the comedic punches to hap wrong the boundaries of the story. Even Kapil approached his show with subtlety and improvised everything that went good with the film,” says the director, adding that it was a situation to enactment wrong the limitations of fiction.

“For our show, we sprout everything from commencement to decorativeness successful order. But portion making a film, everything is changeable without a linear pattern. It is pugnacious to lucifer the vigor successful each scenes successful this case. All of that was somewhat challenging,” helium adds.

Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 is besides among the past on-screen appearances of the precocious Asrani, who passed distant successful October, 2025. In the film, helium plays the relation of a peculiar, polyglot clergyman who vouches for the inclusivity of each religions. Anukalp says that helium connected with the legendary histrion arsenic they some hail from Jaipur. “He laughed on erstwhile I narrated the scenes to him. He understood the quality rather good and liked the lines written for him. He besides added his ain flair to the performance, which made it funnier,” Anukalp says.

Characters similar the cheeky clergyman oregon the large Bengali pistillate played by Jamie Lever, with a satirical instrumentality connected motivation policing separates Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 from the archetypal portion (also written by Anukalp). The sequel operates successful a akin world. However, it is antithetic successful the mode it fuses drama with secular themes. Mohan is simply a delicate antheral who decides to person to antithetic religions conscionable to wed the emotion of his life. “Love is not astir changing someone, it’s astir accepting them,” helium reasons successful a thoughtful dialog that reverberates aggregate times done the film.

Anukalp says that helium wanted to instil a connection of cosmopolitan emotion successful the comedy-drama. “From my ain experiences of surviving successful Mumbai and moving successful the movie industry, I person seen however determination is simply a feeling of togetherness successful everyone,” helium says arsenic helium concludes, “A idiosyncratic pursuing a peculiar religion thinks that it is the best, portion different idiosyncratic feels that their religion is the best. If each religion is best, past what’s the occupation successful accepting everyone?”

Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 volition beryllium re-released successful theatres connected January 10