Arhaan-Pooja in 'Nachle Ve' on Diwali

The stars promise all things bright and beautiful this Diwali. At least on television. What with most of Bollywood's top stars descending on the small screen to host various shows or promote their films on reality song and dance and even cooking shows now, for those who like to spend Diwali in front of their TV sets, it is Bollywood bonanza time. From film promotion episodes to Sreesanth and the CWG gold medalists, celebs of all shapes and sizes will be celebrating Diwali on the tube with viewers.

General entertainment channels are all geared up to make Diwali an entertaining experience. As viewership picks up during festive season which also coincides with the Diwali vacation, channels are making every effort to woo viewers with special episodes of daily soaps, crossovers and celebrity specials in reality shows. In fact, it's literally going to be a battle for eyeballs between channels at prime time from October 31 to November 7.

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Master Chef host Akshay Kumar will throw a challenge to his contestants to make a special Diwali sweet this Sunday. He will give them a whole host of ingredients and ask them to make a sweet by choosing only one fruit, flower and leaf each.

The following Sunday, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will be seen on Master Chef promoting her film Action Replayy.

On the fiction front, viewers of daily soaps will get to see special Diwali episodes of Sasural Genda Phool and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai on Star Plus.

While on Diwali day in Ram Milaayi Jodi on Zee, Mona's pallu will catch fire and Anukalp will save her heroically which will bring them closer to each other. The channel has also lined up a mega special episode of its talent hunt Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.

On the other hand, starting Monday, Sony has lined up four celebrity special episodes on KBC featuring film, sports and television celebrities. While Akshay and his Action Replayy co-stars and director Vipul Shah will feature in the first episode, the second episode will have cricketer Sreesanth, Leander Paes, and Commonwealth Games gold medalists Jwala Gutta, Manoj Kumar, Sushil Kumar and Ashwini Ponappa.

Tbe conniving and extra sweet bahus of soaps who will play the crorepati game include Suhana, Dayaben, Tania, Bharti and Pratigya. The final episode on Thursday will have the Golmaal 3 gang on the hot seat. Sony will also telecast a crossover episode by merging three soaps, Baat Hamari Pakki Hai, Saas Bina Sasural and Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle Ka Nata Koi. While Imagine too will have one or two special episodes of its dailies, Saroj Khan and Terence Lewis will celebrate Diwali the Nachle Ve style with popular pairs of TV which include Alisha Khan and Sudeep Sahir of Behnein, Ashish Sharma and Tanvi Bhatia of Gunahon Ka Devta, Pooja Gor and Arhaan Behl of Pratigya and real life couples Gaurav Chopra-Mouni Roy and Sanjeeda Sheikh-Aamir Ali.

Besides special episodes of most of its fiction shows, Colors will present a special marathon celebration Dilwalon Ki Diwali on November 7 from 12 noon to 8 pm. Joining the celebration will be the lead actors of its popular dailies and cast of Golmaal 3 ? Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor and Shreyas Talpade. There will also be a Diwali special bonanza on Bigg Boss. Host Salman Khan will be locked up in the Bigg Boss house for a day, which will be a big surprise for the housemates. The channel will also telecast the Abhay Deol-Sonam Kapoor starrer Aisha on October 31. Besides all the lights, these stars promise to make our Diwali a bit brighter by coming into our homes.