The third season of The Great Indian Kapil Show launched with much fanfare on Netflix. Big names were lined up with Salman Khan featured in the opening episode to promote Sikandar. The cast of Metro In Dino came next, followed by a cricket special with Gautam Gambhir, Rishabh Pant, and Yuzvendra Chahal. On paper, it all looked perfect. But reality tells a different story.
The numbers are steadily falling, and even Netflix’s weekly Top 10 list can’t hide the decline. The first episode clocked 1.6 million views, which is respectable, but lower than the 2.4 million views The Great Indian Kapil Show debuted with back in 2024. By the second week, Netflix hadn’t even disclosed the individual viewership for the next episode. Instead, it gave a combined total of 2 million views for both episodes. That silence says a lot.
In the third week, with three episodes now live, the total weekly viewership came down to just 1.2 million. And let’s not forget that these are cumulative numbers. The show is now struggling to hold attention despite being Netflix India’s only entry in the global Top 10 non-English shows.
The problem lies in the humour. The sketches feel outdated. The jokes are recycled. Even Navjot Singh Sidhu’s comeback hasn’t added any real spark. There’s a visible lack of reinvention, and audiences seem to have lost interest in waiting for the laughs to return.
At this point, the show needs more than big celebrities. It needs better writing, fresher formats, and a reason for people to come back. Otherwise, even nostalgia won’t be enough to save it.