'I wish SRK luck for Paanchvi Pass'
After SRK, is the Big B planning to return to the small screen? CNN-IBN's Entertainment Editor Rajeev Masand finds out in this exclusive chat with Amitabh Bachchan
Rajeev Masand: You have a commitment with Star TV to do something with television. What is the nature of the shows that you are discussing? I ask this specifically because after Kaun Banega Crorepati the game show format seems a little redundant now.
Amitabh Bachchan: This is exactly what I have been telling all the television channels who have approached me. There is a balance amount left over with Star TV and we are looking into how we can accommodate that. But yes, it is time to think of something new and normal.
I have spoken to several channel heads and they are battling with new ideas but if nothing comes up then I will go back to the tried and tested formula of game shows or question-and-answer shows.
Rajeev Masand: Shah Rukh Khan's new show Kya aap Paanchvi Paas se tez hain? is also a quiz show. It is perhaps filling in the void that KBC left. Have you had a chance to see it?
Amitabh Bachchan: I haven't seen it. But I saw the master, the original. It was put up to me as one of the options that I would do. But it has gone to Shah Rukh now and I wish him all the best for it.
Rajeev Masand: Are you looking at other formats like acting on television?
Amitabh Bachchan: I don't think so. But you never know, circumstances maybe such in life that you may finally end up acting on television.
Mr. Masand... Its not big b planning to return to small screen after srk... Rather it was srk who joined back television after the super success of kaun banega crorepati (mr. Bachchan hosted the first two seasons...)
Amitabh is the shahenshah of shahenshah of indian cinema. He is the god of acting