Personal questions are strictly a no-no with her now. Stray beyond questions relating to her professional life, and Amrita Singh chides you with, “I thought this was going to be an interview about what I am going to do on TV in a few days.”Well then, what is she going to do? “I will be the mentor of a team in a reality show on 9X called Kaun Jeetega Bollywood Ka Ticket ,” she says promptly. And what does ‘mentoring’ entail?
“I am not sure, exactly. The details have to be worked out between me and the channel. But I presume it’s going to be about encouraging new talent to think out of the box, not to go by the text book and be daring,” she says.
Will that mean she’ll mould them to portray a certain image? After all, the channel has promised that the winning team of this reality show will go on to star in a big budget movie. “I do not know how anyone can mould anyone. What I like, and want to be like, the others may not want to follow. So, at the most, I can be the coach, a sort of teacher – play a supporting role, in filmi parlance. After that, it’s up to the youngsters to show off their talent and win.”
Amrita says she is all for the reality shows one sees in abundance these days. The more, the merrier, she feels. “It is a great platform for youngsters to come forward and display their talent. These shows have shown us that there’s no dearth of talent in our country. We just haven’t been looking for it,” she says.
But hadn’t she decided that there’ll be no more TV for her, after her role as the manipulative mother, Nitya Nanda, in Kkavyanjali , some time back? “I really don’t have an answer for that. I did say that I won’t do TV back then. But that was because daily soaps demand so much of you. It takes over your life. This time, it’s different. I just have to dedicate a small amount of time to it. Plus, the format of any reality show limits its on-air time. It has to converge into a semi-final and a final and then end. It can’t go on and on like a serial.”
But these days, even reality and game shows seem to be failing to interest the audience. In fact, one much-hyped show – Kya Aap Panchvi Se Tez Hain ? – is on the verge of being pulled off air due to lack of TRPs.
So, has she given the format of the show a thought? “I guess the format is okay. I have been in the acting industry for 25 years, so I can understand a format that scouts for fresh acting talent, at least. I have been told that the participants will be given scripts to shoot, and I don’t want to reveal it all, but this show can guarantee some fresh talent to Bollywood.” Guess, for now, we’ll have to take her word for it. Source : Times of India
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