Nayandeep Rakshit (DNA; October 7, 2016)


Ask him if he wants to try out something different and he says, “Bigg Boss, Dus Ka Dum, The Farm... these are shows that are my connect with my people. I don’t think I would love to venture out of this space at the moment.”

What about judging a show? “I will be a very bad judge. I will tell you how horrible I am. When I visit these show’s sets to promote my films, and they ask me to talk about the performances, I get so confused. I can’t pit two people, I can’t pick one over the other. Definitely, that’s a terrible quality as a judge,” he says

But among other shows, he does have a favourite. “Stallone had done a show called The Contender. I loved that. Something like that would be amazing if made the right way in India,” he tells us.

The difference between Bigg Boss and Dus Ka Dum is that DKD had ordinary contestants whereas BB was always about celebrities. This time, the format has changed and Salman is most kicked about it. “I am looking forward to them. This time, on BB, it’s going to be a mix of people. There will be celebrities, film stars and the common man. It will be like rich versus poor. And meri class lagegi iss baar. (Laughs) If I support the celebrities, the other group will say I am doing so because I am an actor myself. If I support the common man, the celebrities will say I have been asked to do it. So either way, I will be blamed but I am definitely excited about it.”

He already has his TV plans in place. He reveals, “After Bigg Boss, I start The Farm which is the same concept as Bigg Boss, but with kheti-baari on a farm. Large space, mitti, animals, plants, vegetables, trees will all be there. That’s something I personally love doing and I had been planning to do the Indian version for quite sometime. This time, Raj (Nayak) and I are definitely making it happen.”