Parmeet Sethi recently revealed a startling anecdote from his early career: he and his wife, Archana Puran Singh, reportedly intended to charge comedian-actor Kapil Sharma a royalty for making use of a show concept they helped create.

In a conversation with Pinkvilla, Parmeet recalled how he and Archana started a production company and started working on a talk-show format, where Parmeet wrote the scripts and Archana performed stand-up. “Initially, Archana and I owned a production house. We started a talk show, which was quite similar to Kapil Sharma’s show. I used to write scripts, and Archana did stand-ups," he said.

With a grin, Parmeet went on to say that Kapil owed them royalties for profiting from their original idea when he later mentioned him or Archana in his show. The ‘Dilwal

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