Summer blues!

Summer brings along awaited vacations for some, while sweaty working days for the others. And to top it all, for our tellydom its not only the scorching sunlight but also the strong shooting lights. We ask the telly stars to give a brief on their working conditions and how do they beat the heat!

Riya V Anandwala finds out!

Jeetendra Dixit, correspondent, Star News -"It's worst when I am covering riots"

Mumbai is comparatively okay, when it comes to extensive heat. When I go to other places like Vadodara, it's really difficult to beat the heat as the temperature is very high. It's worst when I am covering riots and cross fires. During summers, I am mostly on liquid diets, so that the body stays cool. Normally we get a weekly off, but now days with so many events happening around, we don't get that too.

Arjun Punjj, currently working on Woh Rehne Wali...-" I sweat like a pig"

It's crazy! Summers are bad, especially for a person like me who can't just bear heat. I can certainly bear winters, to whatever extent, but summer, never! I literally sweat like a pig, and its do difficult to work, and if we have outdoors, then I am literally dead! I will be going to Mauritius very soon, and it's extremely hot there. Had it not been an official trip, I would have opted for a very nice location for a holiday.

Mandira Bedi-" One should learn to bear heat!"

It's very hard to survive under the scorching heat. But one can't do much about it. Fortunately since past three years I have been doing shows that don't require outdoors and revolve around studios, so that way I have been lucky! A few days back I shot for something, and it was terrible. People say that, in summers, you should keep going back to the vans in the breaks, but I think, that even worse. I think one should just learn to bear it!

Deepshika-"I have locked myself in the room"
Don't ask me! I am sick because of that. It's really difficult to handle this. My shoot has been cancelled, and I am very happy about that. I have locked myself in the room; I just go out in the evenings. And places where there is no sign of an AC, is worse. I am on juices, as one doesn't feel like eating.

Sanjit Bedi, Kya Hoga Nimmo Ka-"I carry loads of cold drinks with me"
It's hot like hell! And with the shooting lights, it's getting worse. But one gets used to it. Well, fortunately some of our sets are air conditioned, and the one's which are not, we suffer like hell. To beat the heat, I drink lots and lots of water, nearly eight to nine litres. I also carry many healthy cold drinks with me. I am a tough boy, I don't get drained out that easily, rather the Punjabi blood helps me battling all through.