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Not for the heck of it!
By: Shaheen Parkar
Date: 2008-07-23
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Mumbai:
Though Akshay Kumar is in Los Angeles shooting for Sajid Nadiadwala's Kambakht Ishq, he is keen to gauge the audience reaction to his television show, Fear Factor Khatron Ke Khiladi, which premiered on Monday.
The actor made his small screen debut as anchor of the reality series that also marked the launch of the channel, Colors.
Just the way I am
Says Akshay, "I received a lot of appreciative SMSes from people. They tell me that they enjoyed a new, fresh TV show with a format people can connect and relate to, rather than a celebrity just filling up air time for the sake of it. It bought something to their screens something they never experienced emotionally or physically before."
B-Town's Khiladi adds, "People have been saying that Fear Factor brings out my personality just the way it is, so it really works on that level."
Apart from the numerous congratulatory messages, Akki is kicked about the fact that people realise that the show provides a reason for a celebrity and format to come together and not something that is done for the heck of it.
The celeb participants include Pooja Bedi, Aditi Govitrikar, Anjana Sukhani, Tapur and Tupur Chatterjee, Vidya Malvade, Yana Gupta, Anita Hasanandani, Urvashi Sharma, Meghna Naidu, Sonali Kulkarni, Nethra Raghuraman and Dipannita Sharma.
Go girls!
The first episode, which saw Sonali's ouster, had the contestants jumping off a helicopter into a particular portion in a water body. Later they had to shove their faces in a tank full of snakes and plums and pick up the fruit with their mouths. The winner fetched a cash prize of Rs 50 lakh.
The show also has armymen as partners of the contestants each of them harbouring a dream to fulfill with the cash prize.
Khiladi Kumar, who does not bat an eyelid when it comes to stunts, goads the girls to do their tasks well besides offering his shoulders to cry on as well as lifting the cry babies up in his arms as he did with Vidya Malvade.
Akki returns to Mumbai on August 5 just prior to the release of his film, Vipul Shah's Singh Is Kinng.
Fear Factor ends on August 17 and will be replaced by Bigg Boss. http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2008/jul/230708bolly2.htm
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| Making a point: Akshay Kumar |
The actor made his small screen debut as anchor of the reality series that also marked the launch of the channel, Colors.
Just the way I am
Says Akshay, "I received a lot of appreciative SMSes from people. They tell me that they enjoyed a new, fresh TV show with a format people can connect and relate to, rather than a celebrity just filling up air time for the sake of it. It bought something to their screens something they never experienced emotionally or physically before."
B-Town's Khiladi adds, "People have been saying that Fear Factor brings out my personality just the way it is, so it really works on that level."
Apart from the numerous congratulatory messages, Akki is kicked about the fact that people realise that the show provides a reason for a celebrity and format to come together and not something that is done for the heck of it.
The celeb participants include Pooja Bedi, Aditi Govitrikar, Anjana Sukhani, Tapur and Tupur Chatterjee, Vidya Malvade, Yana Gupta, Anita Hasanandani, Urvashi Sharma, Meghna Naidu, Sonali Kulkarni, Nethra Raghuraman and Dipannita Sharma.
Go girls!
The first episode, which saw Sonali's ouster, had the contestants jumping off a helicopter into a particular portion in a water body. Later they had to shove their faces in a tank full of snakes and plums and pick up the fruit with their mouths. The winner fetched a cash prize of Rs 50 lakh.
The show also has armymen as partners of the contestants each of them harbouring a dream to fulfill with the cash prize.
Khiladi Kumar, who does not bat an eyelid when it comes to stunts, goads the girls to do their tasks well besides offering his shoulders to cry on as well as lifting the cry babies up in his arms as he did with Vidya Malvade.
Akki returns to Mumbai on August 5 just prior to the release of his film, Vipul Shah's Singh Is Kinng.
Fear Factor ends on August 17 and will be replaced by Bigg Boss. http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2008/jul/230708bolly2.htm
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