This time the house is a mix of celebrities and commoners, but Gaurav has no issues with it. “It doesn’t make any difference to me who the other person is
Chaya Unnikrishnan (DNA; October 19, 2016)

Best known for his roles in Left Right Left and Uttaran Gaurav Chopra, who recently participated in the Georgia edition of Dancing With The Stars, is now inside the Bigg Boss house. The actor confesses that he has an affinity for the number eight so, when he was offered the show for the eighth time, he took it up. “I think they have conned me into it,” he jokes. On a serious note he says, the makers cast aside whatever doubts he had, were okay with the money he asked for and “everything just fell into place.”

This time the house is a mix of celebrities and commoners, but Gaurav has no issues with it. “It doesn’t make any difference to me who the other person is. A person is either good or bad — the background doesn’t matter. I don’t think of myself as a celebrity. I am a regular person in an irregular job,” he quips.

Ask him what he likes about the show and he reveals he hasn’t watched it much. “I am ill-equipped that way, but what I seem to like is the fact that it’s a challenge for you to find out who you are, what you think of yourself and if it’s true or not. All of us have strong perceptions about who we are. Main aisa hoon, this is what I can do, this is my limit, etc. All that will be tested in the show, physically and emotionally — the things that you take for granted, like the technology you use day in and day out. Now, that you don’t have it how you will you cope with that? The show is like a good health check-up,” he says.

About host Salman Khan, Gaurav says, he delivers what he promises. “When you watch a promo of his film or show you know what you will get. He does not deceive the audience. He does not say I am going to give a huge intellectually stimulating product and give a Bollywood mash-up. He says he is giving a Bollywood mash-up thumping his chest and that’s what he delivers.”