“It is a celebration of people and their smartness” is how Ravi Dubey, the “Jamai Raja” fame actor, likes to describe his new game show “Sabse Smart Kaun?”, which will soon go on air on Star Plus. The actor-host seems quite confident and excited about hosting his new show and says that it is different from what viewers have seen so far.
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What convinced you to accept this show?
The fact that it is not a run-of-the-mill game show. It’s very different from whatever you have seen so far vis-à-vis a game show. Everything starting from the contestants that are going to come to answer the questions to whatever is going to happen in the show. So the show is not going to judge you on how much you know or your aptitude, but it is going to evaluate your presence of mind and your smartness and a certain amount of alertness. So everyone in this country is eligible to play this game. You can play the game from your homes while the episode is being telecast. So it is more like a play along format where everybody can get together and earn from their smartness.
What according to you is smartness and do you think that smartness of an individual is confined to a certain criterion?
Smartness is something that is infinite. It’s something which is not confined to a particular kind of criterion across your entire life, your entire existence and with whomsoever you meet. So if you have presence of mind and alertness of analysing situations, observing people and then making your decision, you’ll make the right decisions. That’s what the show is also about.
As someone who has been a part of movies, daily soaps and reality shows which do you find the most interesting one?
The one thing that all of these mediums have in common is the camera, being in front of it and performing. So, that is what I find most interesting. It’s not the domain that makes anything more interesting but the fact that you’re performing. And in my case I am performing and I am loving it!
How you are going to be seen on this show?
I think my job is to make everyone who is there to feel warm and positive about what they are feeling and what they are and who they are. The idea is essentially that. So, I am going to be as warm and as familiar to them as possible. I will be their family. If there are two families playing then I will be a part of their family for that one hour.
Over the years, you have done a number of shows be it daily soaps or reality shows. However, which show brought in a massive change in your life
I think every project that I have done has been a game changer for me, be it “Khatron Ke Khiladi” which made me come face-to-face with the hidden areas of my life and gave me an infinite self worth or be it “Rising Star”, which is the only live show in the country which excelled and became the number one show in India. They gave me a lot of good things to reflect on and it changed everything!
You’ve been a Delhi guy. What do you miss the most about the city?
Nostalgia. Even though most of the images that resonate with my nostalgia are no more there. The city has evolved over the years. In another sense, Delhi and I have evolved together. My parents live here. I have a core group of friends from school, just five or six, who live here. I’m always looking forward to meet them.
