Radio One's Rakesh wonders if he is searching, in vain, for Bollywood Badshah because he still has pots of money to handout!
Radio One's Rakesh wonders if he is searching, in vain, for Bollywood Badshah because he still has pots of money to handout!What do you do when you want to load someone with cash for answering a question like who is the hero of the film Chandni Chowk to China, and the person blinks at you?
What if you want to give a cheque to someone who has to answer a question like what is the next line of the song Zara zara touch me, touch me, touch me, and the dude goes mute on you?
You would want to tear your hair and demolish everything around you. Trust me, that's exactly what Prithvi and I are going through (Prithvi settles for the demolishing bit because he has no hair left on his head to pull out) in Season II of Bollywood Badshah, which is easily Hindustan ka No. 1 Bollywood game show.
How lucrative can it get! It's like my grandfather's ambassador-size fortune drops into your lap, and that too for answering some jujubi Bollywood questions, which are born peanuts!
It's Week 2 of Bollywood Badshah on our show (Bengalooru Fatafat Monday to Friday between 8am and 10am) and our bank balance says we've still got loads of cash to give out.
But what can we do when the potential takers are so hopelessly clueless? One of our participants did not know of a single song picturised on Kareena Kapoor. (Even Prithvi could answer that, without my help. As a matter of fact, Prithvi is feeling rather proud of his Bollywood gyaan!) So what follows is a series of slaps, punches, kicks and the works on the show.
In spite of all this, we still make such specimens win some money before they leave our studios. For crying out loud, Bengalooruu2026wakkkkke uppppppu2026! Will the real Bollywood Badshah stand up? We've got one more week of qualifiers. If you think you have Bollywood in your blood, come let's have a face off playing this live in our studios.
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And the boy in the picture is certainly not SRK. It's one of our sales managers who posed for us, only because he believes he looks like SRK. With the recession hitting us, we could only afford a duplicate badshah.
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The writer is producer/ presenter on Radio One FM 94.3, Bangalore.
