There was a time when Kapil Sharma’s name alone guaranteed massive eyeballs across Indian television screens. But the Netflix version of his comedy empire is now facing a harsh reality. After three seasons on the platform, The Great Indian Kapil Show has once again dropped out of the Global Top 10 Non-English Shows list. This marks the second consecutive week without a presence on the chart, raising fresh questions about the show’s waning international appeal.
The third season opened strong with a Salman Khan episode clocking 1.6 million views and nearly 2 million hours watched. That momentum carried forward to the second episode featuring the cast of Metro In Dino, which pulled in 2 million cumulative views across both weeks. The third episode, a cricket-themed outing with Gautam Gambhir and Yuzvendra Chahal, saw numbers begin to slip. Netflix claimed 1.2 million total views across three episodes, but the independent figures for each weren’t disclosed. Since then, the drop has been sharper. The fourth and fifth episodes, featuring the teams of Son of Sardaar 2 and a star-studded actor lineup including Jaideep Ahlawat and Vijay Varma, have both failed to make the cut globally.
While the show still enjoys a strong Indian viewership, its diminishing presence on the global charts is telling. Netflix’s current tenth-ranked show Better Late Than Single earned 1.4 million views in two weeks, a benchmark Kapil failed to cross in its latest stretch.
What makes this pattern more troubling is that it is not new. Both Season 1 and Season 2 faced similar slumps. In Season 2, the fourth week saw a steep decline, despite having high-profile guests like Kareena Kapoor and Rohit Sharma. Cumulative views dropped to 900k. Season 1 experienced the same dip, with its fourth episode featuring Vicky and Sunny Kaushal barely sustaining its momentum.
All three seasons have followed an identical curve of initial excitement, celebrity-loaded openings, followed by declining traction and eventual exit from the global spotlight.
Despite these challenges, the show continues to innovate with upcoming guest appearances by popular content creators like Raj Shamani, Kamiya Jani, and Saurabh Dwivedi. It’s clear that Kapil Sharma and his team are not giving up. But with streaming metrics becoming increasingly vital in the entertainment landscape, consistency is no longer a luxury. It is a necessity.
The show’s struggle is a reminder that star power may attract initial clicks, but sustained engagement needs fresh energy, format evolution, and sharper pacing. If The Great Indian Kapil Show wants to maintain its place not just in Indian hearts but on global charts, the next few episodes might need more than familiar faces and recycled formats.
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