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Over the weekend, the 10 celebrity contestants of Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao were air dropped into the Taman Negara jungles in Malaysia one of the oldest rain forests in the world so that they remain clueless about any entry/exit routes. The desi version of international show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here airs on Sony from tonight. The person who survives till the end, wins a cool crore.

On Thursday, the participants met each other for the first time at the Carcosa Seri Negara in Kuala Lumpur. Chandigarh women Fiza and Palak have already bonded big time.

Providing last-minute touches to the cooking area

The Toilet

An open-air bathing spot

and a covered area for those who don't wanna bathe in the open

How they will live
For the next two months, they will sleep in the open on makeshift haversacks with jungle creatures for company. They will have to cook with firewood, wash and clean in running streams and have an open-air bath or fill tubs of water to bathe in a makeshift wooden bathroom and toilet. They will only be provided rice and soya beans everyday and will have to do physically enduring tasks to win a variety of food rations. This includes a Junglee Dinner that involves sticking your head into a bowl of leeches or scorpions to gather food rations.

What they will reveal
Sooner or later, the past catches up with you. So apart from tasks and their daily chores, they will gossip the highpoint of any reality show. So will Marc Robinson talk about ex flame Preity Zinta and Akashhdeep Saigal about Farah Khan? There is also the Aman Verma and the Ruchi reporter episode. Meanwhile Shweta, Palak and Fiza have their own stories to reveal.

Voice of reason
When emotionally or physically hurt, the participants can enter the Jungle Daak Ghar to air their grievances in front of the camera which will help them overcome their situation.

Work in progress
From the past several months, the channel has been putting big bucks into the show that is produced by the format owners ITV/Silverback along with the Alva Brothers' Miditech Productions. Though the Malaysian authorities had plans of developing the place, it gave up its plans halfway. Now the spot is a beehive of activity with makeshift production offices, over a 100 crewmembers from several countries as well as miles of cables for the several hidden cameras.

Most of the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here series have been shot in the Australia outback, this is the first time it is being shot in Malaysia. As soon as the Indian show is over, the Swedish version will also be filmed there.

Call of the wild

PALAK: I want people to see the real me unlike what was shown in Roadies that wasn't me.

Marc Robinson: This is alien turf for me. I had my apprehensions but I'm game for it... to add to my experiences in life.

Fiza: I was the last-minute entry to the show. Initially, I was a bit hesitant as all the rest are from the showbiz world. Hopefully, I will last for a week or so! In the past few months, I have been under the media scanner due to my ex-hubby Chand Mohammed. I wonder what will be said now!

Shweta Tiwari: People have seen me in soaps playing a character all this while, now here is a chance to see the asli Shweta. Also man survived the jungle years ago, let's see if I can.

Chetan Hansraj: Though I have taken part in an earlier Fear Factor series and even won it, this was an opportunity to test my endurance levels again.

AkashHdeep Saigal: I have done a reality show earlier that involved dancing, now I will do a rumble in the jungle.

Aman Yatan Verma: I played several roles on television, now the audience can see Aman as he is, without mouthing any pre-written dialogues.

Mona Vasu: People tell me that I was born a junglee, so going back to it was a logical step! Moreover, I want to buy a house of my own in Mumbai and I need big bucks for it.

Anaida: Simply for the singularly unique experience I have never ever done reality shows.

Ishq Bector: I want to get into the hearts and homes of the people and what better way than through their television sets?

Ishq Bector, rose to fame with his first indi-hiphop song Aye Hip Hopper. This was followed by the fairly popular Daaku Daddy. Just when we though he had faded into oblivion he showed up in the jungles of Malaysia on Sony Entertainment Television's Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao. But sadly his stint was quite short-lived. Read on for more of Ishq…


Tell us about your experience in Iss Jungle.

I had a wonderful time. It was a chance of a lifetime to go back to the basics. You know, how our ancestors lived in the jungle, cooking your food on a bonfire, living in a small community and struggling to survive.

You got eliminated so early. Even the tasks that you completed did not get aired.

Yes, you are right that I got eliminated even before the task I had completed, that too with all ten stars, did not even get aired. I'm from Canada and I'm here in India to try to make a living, a career and just in a span of three days I was expected to impress the audience. To top it all I had to compete with people like Aakash, Chetan and Shweta who already have such a huge fan base. I'm a rising star, I'm on my way up… so I'm just feeling a little regret that even before people could get to know me properly and maybe get to like me, I got eliminated.

Your views about Palak and Fiza.

Well, what can I say? Palak is still a small kid. She's innocent and all she knows is that she's got to get famous anyhow. And she is trying to get famous by creating controversies. You have to accept the fact that if you don't have talent enough then you need to catch hold of something else to climb up the ladder of fame.

You were the complete opposite of Palak and Fiza. You were calm, composed and basically spreading love in the jungle. Still you got eliminated so soon…

You know controversies have the power to attract public. It stimulates them to get more engrossed in the show. But I think there will be a point when they will get tired of all the catfights and controversies. Then they will get attracted to the bonding that's happening between other contestants of the show. I mean eventually love will win over war.

What would you like to tell us about your camaraderie with Mona?

Mona and I are very alike. She is like the female me. There was a very special bond developing between us. This is one of the reasons why I feel I should have gotten more time in the jungle. Then I'm sure I would have developed even a stronger bond between the both of us.

Among the male contenders who would you call you good friend?

All of us males were like a band of brothers. That's because our work ethics were the same. We never used to think before doing work. The minute we were assigned we used to get on with our chores. The same mentality was displayed when someone needed our help. The brotherhood was that strong! And that is why I wish I could go back to the jungle. I'm sooo wishing for a wild card entry.

According to you who should win this show?

I'll give you my list of people who should make it to the top three. That's Akash, Mona and me, if you let me back.

Palak has commented a lot on Shweta's dressings too…

I think Palak has no right to criticize anybody's personal choice on dresses or anything else for that matter. Shweta is a gem of a person. She was ready to do any work in the show. She is also very brave. Palak has to be asked ten times for any work but Shweta was never like that, one word and she was on to it. Shweta toh hamari desh ki bahu hai!

What would you like to tell your fans?

I would like to thank everyone who has voted for me. I hope that all your support gets me a wild card entry back in the jungle and I can entertain you in many more ways.

We wish all the luck to Ishq for his wildcard entry!

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