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Greys Anatomy 'Meredith Voice Over'

3x19: My Favorite Mistake
Original Airdate: 3/22/2007

MVO: Surgeons always have a plan, where to cut, where to clamp, where to stitch. But even with the best plans, complications can arise, things can arise and suddenly you're caught with your pants down.

MVO: The thing about plans is...they don't take into account the unexpected.
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MVO: And sometimes...
MVO: ...what we want...
MVO: ...is exactly...
MVO: ...what we need.
MVO: But sometimes...
MVO: Sometimes what we need is a new plan

3x20: Time After Time
Original Airdate: 4/19/2007

MVO: A patient's history is as important as their symptoms. It's what helps us decide if heartburn's a heart attack, if a headache's a tumor. Sometimes patients will try to rewrite their own histories. They'll claim they don't smoke or forget to mention certain drugs, which in surgery can be the kiss of death.

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MVO: Our history resurfaces time after time after time.
MVO: So we have to remember sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.

3x21: Desire
Original Airdate: 4/26/2007

MVO: As interns we know what we want...to become surgeons. And will do anything to get there...
MVO: Suffer through killer exams, endure 100-hour weeks, stand for hours on end operating rooms. You name it we'll do it.
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MVO: To often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can't have.
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MVO: But as tough as wanting something can be...the people who suffer the most...are those who don't know what they want.

3x22: The Other Side of This Life (Part 1)
Original Airdate: 5/3/2007

MVO: The dream is this: that we'll finally be happy when we reach our goals...
MVO: ...find the guy, finish our internship. That's the dream; then we get there and if we're human, we immediately start dreaming of something else.
MVO: Because if this is the dream then we'd like to wake up...
MVO: ...now please.

Things You Probably Never Knew Or Thought About

1. At least 5 people in this world love you so much they would die for you.
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Meanings Of Your Names

Instructions: What you do is find out what each letter of your name means.

Then connect all the meanings and it describes YOU.
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PS : If you have double or triple letters, just count the meaning once.

For Example : R A H I M

R = You are a social butterfly.
A = You can be very quiet when you have something on your mind.
H = You are not judgmental.
I = You are always smiling and making others smile.
M = Success comes easily to you.

OTHERS LETTERS
A = You can be very quiet when you have something on your mind.
B = You are always cautious when it comes to meeting new people.
C = You definitely have a partier side in you, don't be shy to show it.
D = You have trouble trusting people.
E = You are a very exciting person.
F = Everyone loves you.
G = You have excellent ways of viewing people.
H = You are not judgmental.
I = You are always smiling and making others smile.
J = Jealously
K = You like to try new things.
L = Love is something you deeply believe in.
M = Success comes easily to you.
N = You like to work, but you always want a break.
O = You are very open-minded.
P = You are very friendly and understanding.
Q = You are a hypocrite.
R = You are a social butterfly.
S = You are very broad-minded.
T = You have an attitude, a big one.
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X = You never let people tell you what to do.
Y = You cause a lot of trouble.
Z = You're always fighting with someone

Koffee With Karan 1

Episode 24
May 27, 2005

Shah Rukh: He is a producer, a director, a wannabe costume designer, an awful actor… He is all over the place for no rhyme or reason and thankfully, tonight he is not here on the show. The film fraternity and all of us decided that we have tortured you enough with Karan's presence on this show in the past few months, so we threw him out. And I am here to do the season finale. So where's Karan? Well, let's just say that I put something in his coffee that he does not know about.
Ladies and gentlemen, tonight I am calling upon a guest who has been the greatest inspiration for me in my growing years. I've had the honour of sharing the same cinematic space with him. To millions around the world, he is a living legend. To millions around the world, he is the biggest ever superstar in Hindi cinema. To me, he is Hindi cinema itself. Please put your hands together and welcome Mr Amitabh Bachchan.

Shah Rukh: What did you think of me when you first met me?
Amitabh: My first impression of you was that you spoke fast; you thought even faster, you had lot of energy, that's it.

Shah Rukh: We are going to be rudely interrupted by the person, who is supposed to handle this show.
Amitabh: Can we just get rid of him?
Shah Rukh: No, I think the security is not able to hold him.
Karan: I hope that was not too torturous.
Amitabh: He is doing a marvellous job.
Karan: He is even better then I am?
Amitabh: Yeah.
Karan: Shah Rukh, you have asked everything I wanted to ask.
Shah Rukh: Do you want to go back? (smiles)

Karan: Everyone talks about both of you selling a lot of products. Between the both of you, I think the poor models have just died completely. There is no work left for them. So when this is thrown at you, what do you say, Shah Rukh?
Shah Rukh: I think it's a part of changing times. I also feel who are working in the film industry are being recognised by corporate sector which feels we are good enough to help them market their product. The media has increased so much.

Karan: You have seen Black?
Shah Rukh: Yes, I have.
Karan: What do you think of it?
Shah Rukh: I think it's one of the finest films that I have seen and I was very moved by the technical aspect of the film, cinematic aspect of the film, the directorial touches and also, I think (pointing towards Amitabh), after many years I felt like touching an actor's feet and I went and touched Amitji's feet. I start crying if I talk about it. It was just so beautiful to see him act in a film like that. I think Rani was marvellous. I really feel emotional about the film.
Karan: And I really believe that Mr Bachchan has a huge graph when it comes to his filmography but I think that Black is just on another level altogether. And I think we should ask Sanjay his thoughts on Black and Devdas.

Karan: We were just saying the most beautiful things about Black. How does it feel post Black, Sanjay?
Sanjay Leela Bhansali: It feels very good. It feels satisfying. But there is a big question in my mind - now what? So, I think post Black, my mind is only working on what am I am going to make now. Or am I going to do something better? I don't know. So, I am a little confused right now.

Karan: On record, I think Shah Rukh has said that Devdas is his finest work as an actor. On record again, Mr Bachchan has gone on to say that Black is his most satisfying experience. How does it feel that both of them, two brilliant actors, hold you in such a high regard as a film maker and rate your film as one of their best?
Sanjay Leela Bhansali: I am blessed. I think I am the kind of person who does not believe too much in myself, so for me if they say that, I think it's the time to believe it.

Karan: What was it like working with Amitabh and Shah Rukh? They are from different schools... Sanjay Leela Bhansali: Both of them are similar, I think. I think they are very intelligent actors. They love their work to death. I think, if you take acting out of their lives they would perish. They have a great sense of humour. They are willing to stress themselves to the limit.

Introducing Farhan Akhtar and Farah Khan: Karan: There is a reason Sanjay is still there because we have two more members of our jury who are going to arrive to judge the grand rapid fire round.
We have to now introduce two rocking members of our jury. Both of them are directors. (Pointing towards Amitabh) You've worked with one of them and are going to work with another. The very talented, Farah Khan and the super-talented, Farhan Akhtar.

Karan: Sanjay, your sentiments on being here as a member of this jury?
Sanjay Leela Bhansali: I wish I were not here.
Karan: And you, Farah?
Farah Khan: I want both of them in my next movie, so I will be extremely tactful.
Karan: And you, Farhan?
Farhan Akhtar: Even I want both of them in my next movie!

Introducing Kajol: In this segment, we have someone special who is going to come on. Someone very special to me, someone very special to Shah Rukh, someone who has also worked with Mr Bachchan and has a great equation with him today. One of my closest friends and one of the best actresses Indian cinema has ever seen. She started the show with Shah Rukh and me. She has to be here today at the grand finale. Let's welcome none other than Kajol.

Karan: You know Kajol's coming back after a gap of many years in a film. Now she is working with Aamir. How does it feel, Shah Rukh?
Shah Rukh: Well, it's absolutely all right. I mean, as actors, we all must experiment with different kind of films. Aamir is a fantastic actor and Kunal is a wonderful director and I am sure we will have some great cinema when all of these people come together. Though I wish she would have done our film together.

Karan: Now, I remember calling Kajol when I was casting for the film and Kajol, of course, for domestic reasons...
Amitabh: (to Kajol) I really do admire that you have always placed your home and your child before anything that is commercial or connected with your profession. I think that's very brave.

Introducing Jaya Bachchan: Now we have a guest with us who is extremely special to me. A guest whose pairing with Mr Bachchan is in resulted in tremendous box office success in the past. Well, her 'mother' pairing with Shah Rukh Khan has also resulted in tremendous box office success. More popularly known in the Indian film industry as the First Lady, let's call upon the extremely talented the beautiful Jaya Bachchan.

Karan: If I had to ask you to sum your years with Jaya aunty - the marriage that has been for so many years - what would you say?
Amitabh: She has given me two of the most beautiful and wonderful gifts that I have ever had in my life - Shweta and Abhishek. I think that really sums up my relationship with her and all that she means to me.

Karan: And if I had to ask you how the journey has been being Mrs Amitabh Bachchan all these years, what would you say?
Jaya Bachchan: It has been wonderful sometimes, not so wonderful otherwise, but great fun.

Karan: When you look at the two of them, Shah Rukh, literally, the First Lady and the Lord of the film fraternity, what do you say?
Shah Rukh: I am perhaps too small in every which way to say anything but I think god and everyone around have really blessed them, and the children are the nicest things that can happen to a couple.

Karan: On this very show, we had Gauri Khan and Suzanne Roshan. Both younger star wives and both of them said how they looked up to Jaya aunty, as a star wife who has brought up her children so well. And that's a compliment that I am sure you have received all the time. Abhishek is so loved by every member of the film fraternity and Shwetha is always so well brought-up and always comes across so dignified. When you hear that how do you feel?
Amitabh: We are very proud of the fact that other people think like this about our children. I think it's been a great effort on Jaya's part to sacrifice her film career and spend a lot of time with them.
Jaya: I don't think that it's a sacrifice...
Amitabh: In the sense of time for them, despite the fact that she was acting in movies. I think children are meant to be loved and everybody's child is their favourite and every parent wishes to bring them up in the best possible way.

___________________________________________________________
Episode 23
May 13, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Hema | Introducing Zeenat

Karan: She was perhaps the first Hindi film heroine who wielded real power. She was the reigning superstar for 15 years and completely on her own terms. Her warm smile would light up your hearts and her stare could put anyone in their place. Gorgeous, but no nonsense, a damsel but certainly not in any distress, she is and will always be Indian cinema's only Dream Girl. It is my privilege and pleasure to welcome my first guest tonight, the exceptionally beautiful Hema Malini.

Karan: I have grown up watching yours and Dharamji's films. What is that one moment that made you realise that he was going to be the man in your life because we have seen so much of your romance on celluloid but what was that one moment that when you felt, "I want to spend the rest of my life with him"?
Hema: I think the first time I saw him, I never thought that he is going to be my man. But I thought somebody like him should be…
Karan: First time you set your eyes on him?
Hema: Yes.
Karan: So it was really love at first sight then?
Hema: No, I won't say that (laughs). I just liked him because he was a very handsome man, a very good-looking man. I had never seen anybody so good looking, so I thought he is so wonderful. I thought I would get somebody like him. But he himself came in my life.

Karan: Around the same time that Hemaji reigned supreme, there was another looming presence in cinema that completely revolutionised the way we perceived our leading lady. Her western sophistication was always neck-to-neck in competition with the traditional leading lady of the Indian celluloid. She was bohemian, yet professional; bold, yet revered; rebellious, yet respected. I am exceptionally excited to welcome my next guest tonight, the original oomph girl of Indian cinema, Zeenat Aman.

Karan: I was just telling Hemaji how excited I am today on this show. I am excited because I have grown up watching both your films and it's like a dream come true. I hope you are as happy to be on my show.
Zeenat: Karan, I am delighted to be on your show. I had the opportunity of being in the first film made by your dad and it gives me immense pleasure to be here today as part of Kofee with Karan.

Karan: Today there is so much of all this you know. There is rivalry between actors. There was so much more dignity at that time point of time…
Hema: We were very friendly.
Karan: Was there no rivalry in those days?
Hema: I mean, as an artist, little will come in your mind. But when we meet personally, we find how wonderful she is, as much as Parveen Babi and Rekha.
Zeenat: Karan, you know what happened with Hemaji and myself was our roles were very well defined. I think Hemaji did very classical, traditional roles, and I personally had a very modern role, so we were never slotted for the same roles. The press always compared me with Parveen.
Karan: So was there a Zeenat Aman-Parveen Babi rivalry?
Zeenat: I think it was more hype in the media.

Karan: We all know and I am sure Hemaji will agree - there was no one hotter than you on Indian celluloid and today these girls go on and on about skin show and make a big hype for no reason. You have done it all, been there done that. How does it feel?
Zeenat: Well, I have not really thought about it, but it feels great now to be appreciated. Whatever body of work any creative person has, if you are appreciated, it always feels good.
Karan: But at that point of time do you think you were over sensational when you wore those sexy clothes?
Zeenat: Honestly, my mindset was not attuned to what was happening in Indian cinema, at that time. So I didn't realise, that while I was doing these parts it was a path-breaking situation. I was cast in roles like that.
Karan: Today Bipasha, Lara and Priyanka are compared to you. Does it feel good?
Zeenat: Yes, of course, it feels good.

Karan: You feel when you look back, "God! Why are they comparing me?" Or you take it as a compliment?
Zeenat: I do take it as a compliment, because these girls are lovely and they are doing good work with good filmmakers.
Hema: And they have lovely figures! At that time, only Zeenat had. Nobody else did.
Zeenat: Everybody is into health and fitness right now.

Karan: And what is your take today when you see this whole new brand of cinema, this whole new sensuality…
Hema: I feel sad looking at these girls, because they have to expose.
Karan: You feel it's a requirement today?
Hema: It is a requirement because I find Esha has to struggle with these ideas. I don't want her to expose. I thought I will be bringing her up just like me. But it's not possible now.
Karan: Does it disturb you when you see Esha in a sexy costume, does it bother you as a mother?
Hema: It bothers me but at the same time she has got a very lovely figure and it does not look vulgar. So as long as it is not looking bad, it's fine.
Karan: There has been Dhoom that as been aesthetically shot.
Zeenat: That always makes a difference - who you are working with and who is presenting you - it makes all the difference.
Hema: The right angle has to be taken. (laughs) Directors in those days also used to keep the camera in...
Zeenat: Weird angles! Don't we know about that! (laughs)
Karan: Did that happen to you?
Zeenat: Absolutely
Hema: Today, I think the girls are not at all aware of it. Or they know it and they don't bother about it.

Karan: Everyone thought that Hema Malini is this dream girl, and everyone spoke in great reverence but there was also a section that called you an ice maiden. It was almost like journalists used to be afraid to ask you any questions. There was this big wall. Did you cultivate that whole image for yourself or was it just you?
Hema: It was just myself. I think I was a little reserved. I never used to talk much to people, may be I was very shy at that time. Now at least I am talking to you.
Karan: At that time you would not have done even this?
Hema: At that time I don't think I would have attended this programme.

Karan: Hemaji kept all the controversies at bay because she never opened up to the media. Your controversies, affairs and link ups, on the other hand, were always all over the place.
Zeenat: Well, some that were and some that weren't, were all over the place. Existent and non-existent ones.
Karan: You mean they were made-up stories?
Zeenat: Absolutely.
Karan: Were there alleged link ups at that time with you, Hemaji, that got written about that were completely untrue?
Hema: Hmm, they were true. Only true link ups were there. They were very nice to me, I must say. (laughs)

Karan: What is the other thing you notice today when you are working as opposed to what used to happen earlier? Is there any major difference you notice in the way the fraternity functions today?
Hema: I think, professionally, everything is more organised now. I worked in Bhagban. All the scenes were only with Mr Bachchan, so I do not know anything else, because I was not working with any new artist of today. May be if I work I will know.
Karan: What about you?
Zeenat: Everything now is much larger then it used to be. Everything is done on a bigger scale. Then, there was no cable television, no mobile phones, no Internet. And I think the pay packets today are much more appealing.

Karan: Were there any super brat heroes at that time, heroes who are quite entertaining?
Hema: I think it was Shatrughan Sinha.
Zeenat: I think Shashiji was a lot of fun. He had a great sense of humour.
Karan: No one trying to be over romantic?
Hema: But I think all men have to be that…(smiles)
Zeenat: Absolutely.
Karan: Who said very romantic things?
Hema: Oh, very romantic…
Karan: Really? I want to know one name.
Hema: I don't want to tell anyone's name.
Zeenat: I am not going to say anyone's name, but I will tell you about a wonderful incident. I was in my make-up room once and I got a big cardboard box wrapped up in a ribbon. I opened the ribbon and there was this cardboard box. I looked into it and there was another box. Open that up and there was the third box. Open that up and inside, wrapped up was a tennis ball and there was a little note that said, "The ball is in your court." (laughs)

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Episode 22
May 6, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Esha | Introducing Shahid

Karan: This poor girl was really burdened with heavy expectations. Dharmendra and Hema Malini's daughter had a rough ride till the right ride came along. The bike ride, Dhoom really did it for her. The title song became a national rage and Esha Deol announced her own arrival. What does the future hold for her? Let's call on the dream girl's daughter.

Karan: Was it difficult being Dharmendra and Hema Malini's daughter initially in your career? Esha: People feel star kids get it very easy. In a way, yeah, we do initially. People come and give us offers. But after a point, I realised that it's all in your hands. I mean if your films don't do well no one is going to give you a second look. You have to work hard on your own.

Karan: He truly represents the Gen X of Bollywood. He is what you call a teenage heartthrob. Girls from 6 to 16 absolutely adore him. One girl, a little older than that, adores him as well. Yes, he is Kareena Kapoor's love interest. Let's find out what makes Shahid Kapoor tick.

Karan: You came with a bang. For you, it was easier as there was no initial struggle.
Esha: Star kid!
Karan: Pankaj Kapoor is a great actor. I am sure you are just honoured to share the same life with him. But Ishq Vishk was an immediate success, an immediate connection with the youth and not much of a struggle there. So how did it feel when it all happened?
Shahid: Well, it's quite overwhelming because the whole film was such that it was a lot of new people. It wasn't going to be one the biggest launches of the year and all we knew was that we are going to put in our best. That's how it seems to work. I was just 21 at that time and it's quite overwhelming and I have said that word thrice! (smiles)
Karan: Yes. So we will stop saying overwhelming. I will move on to my next question now. One thing that everyone talks about is your relationship with Kareena. That seems to be the focus. Do you at all feel that it takes away from your personality and your individuality?
Shahid: Initially, when it started off, when people got to know about it, it became public knowledge that we were seeing each other. It was rather blown out of proportion. So it was something that I suddenly realised that things are written more about my personal life. It was uncomfortable because I am a very private person. But both of us, Kareena and I, never felt the need to hide our relationship. But what we realised is that the media never draws a line, and it's up to the individual to draw the line. And somewhere I took that decision about my personal life.

Karan: Are Esha Deol and Kareena Kapoor really friends? So what happened? Big friendship gone sour now…
Esha: Bebo and I are equally honest, very brutal and brash people.
Karan: Ok, you know I have this lie-o-meter. So tell me the truth.
Esha: Bebo and I have known each other from school and ended up in the same career. Initially we used to hang out, spend time and I was not that busy when I started out. Bebo was already full-fledged in it. So I used to go and meet her on her sets. We were very open about our friendship. I guess both of us are slightly off also! We don't know when things go wrong between us! (Laughs)
Karan: So what went wrong?
Esha: Nothing actually went wrong. We just decided to let each other do our own thing for a while.

Karan: Did she talk about Shahid initially when it was happening?
Esha: She told me about him - that she is dating someone. Because Bebo and I were good friends at the age when girls meet guys and that whole thing happens, so we have seen each other go through a lot. She told me that she is seeing Shahid now and said, "Someday, hope you also get a boy who loves you just that way."
Karan: How sweet!

Karan: What happened with Fardeen?
Shahid: What ever it was, it was from his side. I have no issues with him.
Karan: So you feel there was something from his side?
Shahid: I am sure there was. He has spoken about it in quiet a few places. As far as I am concerned, it was a professional relationship with him. If he felt I was rude to him then I really don't know where that came from.
Karan: You don't remember being rude to him.
Shahid: I am never rude to any of my co-stars.

Esha: You know my mom and dad are looking for someone for me right now. I don't find anyone interesting. I don't know what's wrong with me?
Karan: Are you not attracted to any of the young boys in Bollywood?
Esha: All of them are really nice looking and very attractive, but I am very choosy that way.
Karan: You are looking for Mr Right.
Esha: I am not looking for Mr right but if he is there, around the corner, he can come and have coffee with me.

Karan: Has your dad seen Dhoom? Esha: No.
Karan: What do you think his reaction would be?
Esha: I am sure he has seen certain promos but all I can say is everyone is happy no one is complaining.
Karan: Are you scared of him?
Esha: I am very scared of him because I just love him so much. (smiles)

Karan: Your father is a great actor. What is his take on your work?
Shahid: You don't want to know…
Karan: What does he say? Tell me one mean thing he told you.
Shahid: When he saw my first film, he said, "This is not how you should have started."
Karan: Really?
Shahid: He is extremely critical of me, which I think is very important. You always need to have this one person who tells you that you are really bad because that helps you improve and if it comes from your father, especially my dad, who is a good actor himself… Well, he also praises me, but he somewhere keeps me rooted to the ground.

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Episode 21
April 29, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Rishi and Neetu

Karan: Tonight is extremely special for me. This is truly going to be one of my favourite episodes ever. We have with us one of the hottest off-screen and onscreen couple of Indian cinema. He has been the king of romance and she has been the teen queen. Together, theirs' is a love story that fairy tales are made of.
On a personal note, I would like to add that he is one of my favourite actors ever! He gave birth to this entire phenomenon of natural acting. What do we say about her? We are so honoured to have her with us. This is her first appearance on camera after 25 years! So let's welcome the heartthrobs of the '70s for the first time on Indian television, Neetu and Rishi Kapoor.

Karan: It has been 25 years of an association of marriage?
Neetu: And five years before that. So it's 30 years.
Karan: Good marriages are like dinosaurs - they don't exist. So how does it feel? Sir, you tell me.
Rishi: I am a difficult man.
Neetu: Thank god, he has admitted that!
Rishi: Well, we just sailed through I guess! We have had ups and downs…
Neetu: I think, basically, you have to be a good human being.
Rishi: We dated for five years and we knew we could get along well and so it happened. And it happened today, my friend. Today is April 13. We got engaged today, 26 years back.
Karan: This is too much nostalgia happening. That's even more special! Ok, going back, I think millions of people want to know including me, how did this love story start?
Neetu: I was just his friend. I was his confidante; he would fight and argue with me. I was 13 and he used to have his girlfriends, but I was his shoulder to cry on. In the end, he said, "I miss you when you are not around".

Rishi: We were shooting for Kabhi Kabhi in Kashmir and I had to leave for shooting in Paris. We were working quite regularly and one day I was very lonely when I went to a foreign land. So I sent a telegram - Yeh sikhni badi yaad aathi hai!
Neetu: And with that telegram, Karan, I was all over the place.
Karan: You are truly Raj Kapoor's son! Yeh tho sirf film wala likh sakta hai. How did you feel?
Neetu: I am telling you I was just jumping.
Karan: Were you dating someone at that time?
Rishi: Can you ask me this question later on? (Winks)
Neetu: I know all about his girlfriends, he used to call his girlfriend and because he could not call her directly, he used to tell me you call her up, call her on the line and give me the phone, I used to do that for him!

Karan: I also heard you had commitment phobia at that time?
Neetu: He would say, "I would never get married to you. I am dating you".
Rishi: It was my sister who got me engaged today, years ago. I had gone to somebody's marriage. Kehte hain na ke marriages are made in heaven ya marriages are not made in heaven…

Karan: Most heroes have these affairs, but nothing really came up on you.
Rishi: I didn't let it come up (winks).
Neetu: He is very smart.
Karan: So do you think he is hiding something from you?
Rishi: I am an open book!
Karan: And you believe that?
Neetu: I do actually. I can't believe him having an affair. If he will do it, he will do it openly.

Karan: But he has worked with so many young girls. I mean there is a record! You are the only actor who has worked with 23 new heroines.
Neetu: Because nobody suited him. When he was in the movies he was so young, everybody was his senior. There was Hemaji, Rekha, Tina, so I was the only one. I did 11 movies with him.
Karan: So you must have had all kinds of women hitting on you?
Rishi: I am very grateful to all my leading ladies. They have played a very big part in my career as well. In 1973, I worked with a new girl and 1991 also I was working with a new girl.

Karan: And therefore no link up and no affair. A very good boy you have been.
Rishi: This is an irony.
Neetu: He didn't need to have an affair if I was in his life!
Karan: Of course, look at you. Why would any man want to have an affair?

Karan: You are full of amazing things. You are very candid in your interviews. You have even said that booze and food has been Neetu's biggest sauthan! Now, booze I can understand, but why food?
Neetu: Food, because I can't control him! People say fat is genetic but it's a lifestyle disease.
Karan: And what's with the booze then?
Rishi: If there are people seeing this interview it's not a good habit. And probably I will get out of it but it's not a good habit.

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Episode 20
April 22, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Malaika | Introducing Amrita

Karan: When I think of her, the first thought that comes to my mind is "My god! She is gorgeous". In fact, she is the hottest young mother in India today. She has danced around a pole; she has danced on a train and she has danced her way into your hearts. She is a successful model, a successful VJ - a sexy, successful story. Now she has one big thing in common with Jennifer Lopez, but I am not going to tell you that now. You can figure it out yourself. Let's welcome none other than Malaika Arora Khan.

Karan: You have been married to Arbaaz. How long has it been?
Malaika: The seven-year itch is on actually!

Karan: Of course, we have all heard about her. She is hot, she is happening, she represents generation next and she has many a boyfriend and a girlfriend. We will find out when we call her right on. Let's bring on Amrita Arora. I like the visual of these two sisters. It's all leg and everything else!

Karan: Amrita, We will talk about your boyfriends later but you have also had a girlfriend on celluloid. So was that fun?
Amrita: No, it's something that if I could go back and change, I would change. I don't blame anyone for it, but myself. I perceived it to be something else, something progressive. But when my parents saw it, they were really upset with me and they walked out. Everyone was just very uncomfortable. To see them disappointed in me really upset me.

Karan: Malaika, what is Arbaaz's reaction to all your sensuality?
Malaika: I think he is somebody who is very confident of himself. So if that is there in you, it obviously transcends into something else, so things like these don't really bother you. Arbaaz is somebody who is very understanding and very comfortable.

Karan: You had no boyfriends when you were young?
Amrita: I was a lot of telltale sister. Malaika had a lot of male attention and I was a geek. I wanted to become a nun, Karan.
Karan: But darling that's not what you are doing right now…
Malaika: She is doing 'nun' of it. Let's put it that way now.

Karan: Let's not talk in general. Let us be specific. There was a rumoured link up with Fardeen. Now did that happen ever?
Amrita: It was just a friendship that was rumoured…

Karan: Tell us about your new boyfriend. Now, you talk about it Malaika.
Malaika: I don't know Usmaan too well. He plays cricket for the England team. Amrita met him through Arbaaz and me, so now it is in that phase where things are very rosy...
Amrita: To set the records straight, let me just quote Britney spears. "She kissed a lot of frogs to finally know who her prince charming is" and I think with Usmaan the quote lies well. I always thought Arbaaz is the ideal brother and I want qualities of a man like Arbaaz bhai and Usmaan does have those qualities.

Karan: What is great is that there is a certain amount of aesthetic value attached to sensuality now on celluloid and that you agree Malaika we have done a song together you look super hot and it was all very aesthetic.
Amrita: I think people keep pointing fingers at her about wearing clothes that she does but she can give any actress, any model, any socialite a run for their money. No one can look half as good as she looks.
Malaika: I didn't really tutor her. (smiles and kisses Amrita)

Karan: Well, that's wonderful. You guys represent new generation but is there a line you draw? Let's start with you, Malaika. Do you draw lines?
Malaika: Of course, I do. Well, at the end of the day, I know there are people who I care about back home and I have got to keep a lot of things in mind without hurting people's sentiments. I am a mother, I am a daughter-in-law to somebody, daughter to somebody, a wife to somebody and I have to take all these parameters into account but I think I am somebody who knows between right and wrong. I think I can make that differentiation and I don't think anybody can ever point a finger at me.
Karan: What about you, Amrita?
Amrita: I do. I don't think I am sexy and I don't think I can pull of the whole sex appeal and if I am comfortable in a pair of shorts then I wear it. If am absolutely convinced about it then I would go ahead and do it. I will never make my mom watch something and say, "Baby, why do you need to do these films?"

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Episode 19
April 8, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Smriti | Introducing Sakshi

Karan: Tulsi. I am sure you have heard the name before. It is the character in the extremely popular Kyunki Saans Bhi Bahu Thi. Now Tulsi is no longer a name. It's a brand, a brand that symbolises the ideal traditional Indian woman, brand that epitomises the entire Indian value system. Lets find out the inner world of successful politician, homemaker and TV actor Smriti Malhotra Irani.

Karan: The world knows you as Tulsi but today I am going to find out the inner world of Tulsi. So how does it feel?
Smriti: Its quiet a chaotic life actually, trying to juggle between too many things. But then I have always believed that you have one life and I want to live my life to the fullest.

Karan: One can never imagine you when one sees you; the way you are portraying the character, the way you are today that you ever took part in Miss India. I mean it's a big shock.
Smriti: That I could ever be so thin!
Karan: You did a swimsuit round. One cannot imagine…
Smriti: I was fortunate that year there were a lot of organisations and NGos that were opposing the idea of an Indian woman in the swimsuit.

Karan: Ekta tells me that her entire team was against casting you and it was only Ekta who supported that decision.
Smriti: Because I walked into her office in jeans, T-shirt, jhola, chashma and kitaab. She just looked at me and said fine. That's all I heard from her, I thought that was the weirdest meeting ever!
Karan: And she told me that her team was not just supporting her.
Smriti: What is nice about Ekta is she is not bothered whether you think well of her or think bad of her but she is bothered about what is your contribution to the company. But the soft side to her is something she does not want people to know.

Karan: Sakshi Tanwar essays the role of Parvati beautifully on television, now the role of Parvati is someone who is strong and assertive, and very often the solution finder in the family. Now the family is the very popular family that you see every night on television is Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii. But tonight I thought we would find out who the real Parvati is. Lets find out the inner world of Sakshi Tanwar as well.

Karan: Ekta has created icons out of the both of you, Tulsi and Parvati and every woman in India wants to emulate you. How do you react to that euphoria?
Sakshi: Karan I would say that a lot of credibility and a lot of responsibility have been attached to both of us because of the characters we are portraying but to tell you very honestly when this character was offered to me I didn't identify with it at all.

Karan: I heard just like the team turned away Smriti, you turned them down.
Sakshi: Yeah because I didn't identify with the role of Parvati. I thought it was too good to be true and I had lots of arguments over this character and my doing this character and I remember I had said no to Ekta thrice.
Karan: What made you decide?
Sakshi: I think it was just her conviction.

Karan: You play the same role everyday do you get fed up?
Sakshi: Fortunately, Karanl I am a very switch on switch off performer so I leave Parvati Agarwal in the Agarwal house after packup and Sakshi goes home happily satisfied with her days work. As far as being fed up is concerned no I am not and for me it like an exercise to make the same scenes more interesting. It is a challenge.

Karan: So it was not true when I heard or read that there was a breakdown you had once that you just got fed up and they had to give you a break?
Sakshi: (Laughs) No it was not because of the character. It was just a work pressure.

Karan: What about you Smriti? How does it feel to play Tulsi everyday?
Smriti: I think I have been fortunate because the character began from the age of 18 and today she is somewhere close to 50 so its not as if I am playing the same age or the same set of circumstances every year. Ekta keeps it an exciting show to be a part of; the entire cast hits of very well of screen.
Karan: And Ekta keeps it exciting killing the characters and bringing in new ones.
Smriti: You are getting me into trouble again! Once I told Ekta this is too much, how can I keep crying all the time? And she said you have to cry as my TRP goes up when you suffer (grins).
Karan: Oh god! The more you suffer the more people like to watch your show?

Karan: You are living an ironic existence do you go through it a lot? Sakshi: Especially these two characters, they are taken very seriously by all the viewers so many times people come up to me with their real life problems. They feel that…
Karan: So you are an agony aunt then?
Smriti: She often complains that meri shaadi kaise hogi? Mene kaha kyun? Sab mujhe parvati bhabhi kehte hai! (Laughs)

Karan: I had an aunt who was watching the shows and we were chatting and she told me that Tulsi should not lose weight! Is that true that you are keeping your weight on to serve your character?
Smriti: I did try to lose and I started looking younger then my screen son Gautam who is actually a classmate from back school.
Karan: Both serials Kyunki and Kahaani are neck to neck on Indian television. Sometimes Smriti gets the huge chunk of the glory. How do you feel Sakshi?
Sakshi: you are seeing it from the top I am seeing it from the bottom. I still feel that I am much better off then many of the actors who want to be in my shows today. And that's ok I am quiet used to it by now (Smiles).

Smriti: I think Tulsi and Parvati are twins separated at birth and a lot of journalists when they call up say there is some rivalry happening but what mostly transpires between me and Sakshi is we sit together and we crib about everything in the world.

Karan: Sakshi I believe you are a party animal and Ekta said there was one part where you all had to dance and she said you took off and you almost became a Helen.
Sakshi: Yes I love dancing. I remember this incident when in the story my daughter was in jail and there was a garba happening in the house. So the director told me I cannot dance, as I was the only one who knew the truth. And all my co actors knew my urge to dance, they all somehow convinced the director and I just had to do a little bit of dancing but I got carried away!

Karan: I love it that I have hyped my own hamper that it almost appears like a National award or a Film Fare award. We always have big chats on the hamper.
Smriti: We have already split it. And I am most afraid for you to pick up that device!
Karan: The lie-o-meter? No because you both are not the lie-o-meter material!
Smriti: That's a compliment!

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Episode 18
April 1, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Aishwarya | Introducing Sanjay

Karan: Miss World 1994, Aishwarya Rai. She has face that can launch a thousand films.
Aishwarya: I'm always greeted with that line - the most beautiful face in the world. I'm awkward, I still don't know what to say to that.
Karan: So you think it would be a change to be told you're not looking nice today? People say you are not spontaneous, that it's all poised and perfect. You are the bride of India who invites a lot of prejudices.
Aishwarya: (laughs) Initially it hurts, but then when you get to know who said, where it's stemming from and why, it's easier to not take it to heart. As a model, I had the natural body language. I was never trained. If people can't accept your natural graces, they attribute it to being put on.

Sanjay: She didn't want to work in my film, Bajirao Mastani, for different reasons. But it was portrayed as a rift.
Aishwarya: Yes, we discussed it in my house. It was his vision as a director. The cast he saw was ideal for the film. But I could not work with the team he planned. We were amicable about it.
Karan: What circumstances? (smirks)
Aishwarya: Well, I was game to play Mastani, but not to the Bajirao he had in mind. But the press said, Aishwarya "walks out on Bajirao-Mastani". He was obviously hurt by that headline.

Karan: How does it feel to see other directors portray Aishwarya in their films? Because admittedly she looked best in your two films.
Sanjay: I don't think they understand the aura of Aishwarya Rai, her beauty. I think she's struggling in other films, groping from the director. But we share such a great rapport. I think she'll be completely deprived of details from others.
Aishwarya and Sanjay: (laugh)

Karan: How is it working with Rani Mukerjee?
Sanjay: Rani is the girl next door. She's completely mad. I had a wonderful working relationship with her. She may not have the aura of a star like Aishwarya, but she is a fantastic actress.
Karan: And, Aishwarya, how does it feel to see someone else being the lead role in his films?
Aishwarya: Working with him is being with a friend. There is a possessive streak but not so much as to not be able to see him working with anyone else.

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Episode 17
March 25, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Priyanka | Introducing Arjun

Karan: She is the latest 'A' list, mainstream girl. She is sexy, she is earthy and she's got what it takes. She is known for her curves, charisma and her controversies. You praise her onscreen performance and she will accept it in her Andaaz. Say anything about her alleged affairs, there will be an Aitraaz. Let's welcome Miss World 2000, Priyanka Chopra.

Karan: There is a new stand Priyanka is taking - no exposure suddenly?
Priyanka: It's a conscious decision. It's required when you are performing. When I played Aitraaz, it was more of a character that I was playing. I don't want to be known for exposure.
Karan: Are you trying to say that the girls who show skin are not going to ever make it into the big league?
Priyanka: No, I never said that. That's how I started. It happened with me in the beginning. I did do an Andaaz. I did wear a bikini. It's not something I can say I am ashamed of. But it is not something I want to do now. I want to be known more for my performance.
Karan: How many times recently have you refused kissing scenes in films?
Priyanka: I have not done any! (smiles)
Karan: Anyone you want to kiss onscreen?
Priyanka: No, those things I keep for privacy. (laughs)

Karan: My next guest tonight is a super model-turned-actor, Greek-god-gorgeous, has women going weak in the knees as they see him, but not much can happen because he is happily married and intends to keep it that way. That's what he says. So let's call Arjun Rampal.

Karan: 'Good looking' - you have heard that a lot, has it ever frustrated you?
Arjun: It's got nothing to do with me. This is the way I am, they find me good looking and I make money.

Karan: What happens when you have a string of flops? How does it bother you?
Arjun: It does bother you. Because all you want to do is good films and I consciously do want to do it because I am very passionate about films and I want the films to work. I work on every film really hard. But I guess you just got to be strong. Mr Bachchan had 10 to 12 flops before he became Mr Bachchan, so there is a man who has rocked it even after so many flops and disasters and is a great example.

Karan: You have been from the modelling world, when they said there is a casting couch even for men. Have you been subjected to it?
Arjun: (laughs) I don't know. I have not seen it. I have not experienced it. It is not the people from the fraternity but people from outside.

Karan: Have you felt the vibe around you ever, Priyanka?
Priyanka: When it comes to the casting couch, no. I have never had to go through it or been even offered or felt the vibe of it because when I came into the industry I was already Miss World and before that Miss India just happened. So it always started with the media knowing who I was.

Karan: So much talk about the alleged romance with Akshay Kumar, Priyanka.
Priyanka: I am honestly tired of it because there is enough that's been said, speculated, thought of. Opinions of people do not matter to me as they does not matter to my family.
Karan: Does it upset your working relationship with a man?
Priyanka: Of course, it does. I just seem to be crowned as the Controversy Queen and I detest it. I just want to be known for my work.
Karan: Do you want to say anything to the media who go on and on writing about it?
Priyanka: Aren't you tired of it? Let's talk about something interesting and fresh. (laughs)

Karan: Are you seeing anyone?
Priyanka: No
Karan: You are single and ready to mingle?
Priyanka: Pretty much actually. I am sick and tired of this whole thing. I just want to work.
Karan: You are only 21! How could you be sick and tired?
Priyanka: 22! See I am being honest. (laughs)

Karan: You have an international look. You don't look like filmi prototype. Do you think that comes in your way?
Arjun: No, I don't think so. If somebody is just saying, "That's a good-looking guy", how long can you watch him? You have to hold the story. I hope people start looking at me as a good actor.

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Episode 16
March 18, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Konkona | Introducing Rahul

Karan: My first guest tonight is someone who has made her presence felt in a short span of time. Her solid sincerity, natural ease and an unconventional appeal have put her on the cinematic map. Critics and sensibility-driven audiences love her. So if you have seen her in Page 3 or in Mr And Mrs Iyer, you have to say here is an actor to stay. Let's welcome Aparna Sen's daughter and National Award winning actress, Konkona Sen Sharma.

Karan: How does it feel post Page 3? It has met with so much mainstream success.
Konkona: I am surprised and grateful. I am surprised because I have no expectations from any of my movies. I mean, you never know. I enjoyed it. You cannot please people. I am very grateful as I feel it's all luck.

Karan: A film like Mr and Mrs Iyer, which is such a credible film, wins National Awards but does not get the audiences. Then a Page 3 comes your way and you taste mainstream success. Everyone knows who Konkona Sen is today because of Page 3 and not because of Mr and Mrs Iyer.
Konkona: It does not really matter to me either way. They may not like the next movie I make.

Karan: What about your views on accepting mainstream films?
Konkona: Some are so much fun. I enjoy watching them occasionally. I liked Main Hoon Na and Kal Ho Na Ho. They are long but so much fun.
Karan: All our films are long but so much fun. We can't help it.

Karan: You have done some good work with Rahul Bose. You have done Mr and Mrs Iyer and now you are working with him again?
Konkona: Yeah, we are doing another film together. It's called 15 Park Avenue. It has Shabana Azmi, Waheedaji, Shefali Chaya and I play a schizophrenic.
Karan: Are you in anyway close to the character?
Konkona: Oh yeah, I am. (laughs)

Karan: My next guest tonight is someone whose butt shot in English August was a talking point for quite sometime. But that does not take away from this boy's inherent passion for good cinema. He has done an enviable lot of niche audience films that have an indelible mark on the minds of the sensible cine-goers. Let's call the multiplex man himself, Rahul Bose.

Karan: How was the experience on the sets on Mr and Mrs Iyer?
Konkona: It was my best movie ever.
Rahul: It's very rare that you get 5 or 6 factors coinciding beautifully - a great director, a great story, a great role, a great co-actor and socio-politically, something you believe in. It was like the planets aligning once in a million years.

Karan: A big mainstream filmmaker comes to you with a big film, but you don't identify with it. Would you do it for a career upswing?
Konkona: I have never identified with any of the characters I played.
Karan: Would you play the sexy chemistry teacher of Main Hoon Na?
Konkona: If I could, Karan, I would do it in a heartbeat. No chance. I am just Mrs Iyer.

Karan: Rahul, you once said that Jhankar Beats is the only film, which you have done where you think that you didn't identify with the scenario. You felt it was a slightly mainstream cinema?
Rahul: I did Jhankar Beats because there was a perception that I was a very intense actor, and underplayed. So I had to shoot that myth and hopefully, I shot it.
Karan: You did that to prove a point?
Rahul: Yes, I actually believe that films that are gripping in a narrative do not need songs. Am I against musicals? Definitely not. I think they have their own grammar. Stick to the grammar of what you are doing.

Karan: Has there been a vibe between the both of you?
Konkona: A vibe? Yeah, I love him.
Karan: Are you admitting it then?
Konkona: Officially? Will I get a coffee hamper for it?

Karan: To what extent would you go skin showing? Are you a prude?
Konkona: I don't think I am a prude. But I can't show skin. May be if I had a gorgeous body, I would flaunt it.
Karan: I saw you at a party and it looked super hot.
Konkona: I am not comfortable. But I may do a little bit for myself, for fun. The only thing I can do is kissing.

Karan: Have you done a single film that you have been really uncomfortable with?
Rahul: I think that the two films that didn't turn out the way the script was written were Bombay Boys and Mumbai Matinee. I felt these films were a let down from the way I had seen the films in my mind's eye. But I would still do the movies again if I were offered them. I still stand by my performances in the films. I could not do better.

Karan: What happens when your female actor takes the lime light?
Rahul: I feel intensely jealous and hateful and bitter.
Karan: That's the answer I wanted. (smiles)
Rahul: So what I do is I just think very carefully. And I clean my mind of all the hatred. And decide to, at some point, kill them. (laughs)

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Episode 15
March 11, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Abhishek | Introducing Preity

Karan: He is the son of a living legend. He is probably the most eligible bachelor in the country today. Suddenly emerging as the sexiest thing on Indian celluloid, my first guest on this show is back on popular demand because the girls couldn't get enough of baby Bachchan. He is ready to bed, wed and knock you dead. Let's welcome Abhishek Bachchan again on this show.

Karan: How does it feel to come again on the show?
Abhishek: I'm not too happy.
Karan: Why? I just said you were back by popular demand, we got e-Mails and letters and all kinds of phone calls saying bring the junior B back but this time with a girl. Why do you think that happened?
Abhishek: Because they all empathised with the fact that I didn't win the coffee hamper last time. So they wanted to give me an opportunity to win it again.
Karan: Don't tell me you are still sulking?
Abhishek: I am still sulking.

Karan: We will be talking about your single, sexy status. What does it really feel like? I mean you know I am quite shocked because I never ever thought you would be called sexy in my wildest dreams. You were this brat who where part of my childhood. You are sexy! Do you believe it?
Abhishek: (nods)
Karan: You are lying. You have women hitting at you all the time?
Abhishek: No.
Karan: Of course you do. Your father is not here, so come on, talk to me.
Abhishek: No, I really don't.
Karan: Of course, you do. You told me you do, so don't lie. I have a lie-o-meter. Women don't hit on you?
Abhishek: No. (smiles)
Karan: (beeps the lie-o-meter and says) Contemporary heroines don't hit on you?
Abhishek: They hit me, like I said the last time.

Abhishek: Karan's next guest tonight is somebody who I consider to be very special a very good friend. She is Preity Zinta a very talented actor and more importantly a wonderful human being, great fun. I would like to invite on stage Basanti.

Karan: How does it feel to not win for Veer Zaara? It was a major film of the year.
Preity: Well, it's OK. You know, I think what's important is the film did really well. I was appreciated and that was people's choice.
Abhishek: I will translate what she was saying. (grinning) "I can't believe I lost. Rani was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Why couldn't they just give her that? I should have won Best Actress. Just because I didn't show up…"
Preity: (Nods with a surprise)

Karan: Tell me your response for not winning the award for Veer Zaara?
Preity: I won Jodi No1. (smiles)
Karan: With Shah Rukh, of course.

Karan: Preity, have you never been attracted to Abhishek?
Preity: Totally, but he has been ignoring me, Karan.
Karan: Be serious, no attraction?
Preity: No. I found an immediate comfort zone with Abhishek, which was a mad comfort zone.
Abhishek: I think we both were completely normal in front of each other. There was no pretence. She was being just the mad person that she is.
Preity: And he was being madder then I was…

Karan: Did you get calls from families saying, "Are you seeing Abhishek Bachchan?"
Preity: Oh, yeah. But it was great because I am his fan-o-meter. I know how many fans he has as all the women were calling me up.

Karan: Abhishek, they have questioned your performance level, they has questioned your body, they said you had put on weight in this age of being fit and muscular. You were somebody who has gone out of shape, and various other things like about your voice modulation. Did you feel today you want to get back to those detractors or did you learn from their criticism?
Abhishek: No, I don't want to get back. I would like to thank them. This industry makes you grow very faster. Today I realise that I was completely not prepared to be an actor. I had no idea. I was like a child who was given a toy.

Karan: What is the sleaziest pick up line you have heard of?
Abhishek: One lady came up to me and said, "That's a really cute ass." I almost fainted. I thought she was not talking to me and I turned and looked around.
Karan: It's not that terrible. Preity: May be it would be terrible if she had grabbed it and said! (giggles) Sorry, Abhishek.

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Episode 14
March 4, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Sushmita | Introducing Sanjay

Karan: She's the ultimate diva, a total head turner. No wonder she was crowned Miss Universe in the year 1994. The term 'sex appeal' finds a new meaning when it comes to Sushmita Sen. The best part is that she can actually turn you on with just her conversation.

Karan: Call it media terminology or you're stuck with the tag. Do you think you are a diva?
Sushmita: The definition of a diva is not clear to me. A woman who I love and admire is also called a diva - Madonna. If you go by that definition, then thank you so much! (laughs)

Karan: The year you won Miss India… No offences here, but it was a complete shock to everyone in India, including you, because Aishwarya Rai was the touted winner.
Sushmita: I was shocked, Karan because I had taken back my form for the entry of the pageant knowing that Aishwarya Rai was entering the pageant. I thought, "Why bother?" But thanks to my mother who explained to me that there is a thing in life called an upset. And you will never know if you can be that to someone or someone else can be that to you, unless you've given it a shot.
Karan: Why do you think you deserved to win when you compare yourself to Aishwarya?
Sushmita: I don't compare. I think she was fabulous on stage. I think I was my best that evening and that's why I deserved to win. I also think I was lucky that evening and that's important in a competition, not just your hard work. Because there were 20 or 30 girls who put in equal or more amount of hard work (smiles).

Karan: My next guest is also a head turner and also a bed turner from what I've heard. But as somebody put it, in the entire industry, he's the original rock star.
Sanjay: I'm not a bed turner just a head turner. She is more than me (points at Sush) Sushmita: Welcome to the show. (laughs)

Karan: Sanju, it hasn't been easy for you in the industry, with the upswings and downswings in career and also on a personal level. What keeps you going?
Sanjay: One has to be a fighter in life - face a problem instead of running away. I did the running away bit with drugs but that doesn't help. Its only when you are down that you want to climb up.
Karan: Yes, but it does take a lot to combat all those problems. What are your thoughts today?
Sanjay: I have no regrets; these are lessons life has taught. I don't have bad feelings towards anybody. If I were in their situation maybe I would do the same, either when I was in my drug phase or when I was in jail.

Karan: We'll chat relationships now. There have been so many? What's with it - commitment phobia or boredom?
Sushmita: It's not boredom. Sometimes you outgrow relationships and people. Nothing comes with a guarantee. I think relationships are there for you to grow with. Sometimes they last, sometimes they don't. (smiles)

Karan: Sanju, you've had so many relationships too. What keeps you going, in that respect?
Sanjay: Karan, I love to be loved. I like to be held and cuddled. That keeps happening (laughs). I'm more romantic today. Marriage is commitment that you have to respect. I think those days are gone when women had to sacrifice a lot. I think the institution is dead.
Sushmita: Objection, your honor! I don't think the institution is dead. I think the whole concept of marriage has changed. Adjustment issues didn't exist earlier.

Karan: What about fidelity? Is it that much more difficult to be faithful to your spouse today?
Sushmita: Fidelity is something that people have to have their own meaning of. Most people associate fidelity with the physical aspect of it. If a man has another woman on his mind and me beside him, that doesn't mean faithful. For me, it's a mind thing.

Karan: The two of you were linked up once - after a show in London where you bashed someone up. What happened there?
Sushmita: I was being harrowed by this photographer. Sanju came and asked if I needed some help. I said I could handle it. Then the gentleman physically came and held me, and stopped me from going. Sanju just came, pushed him, took his camera off because the photographer was coming on to me. That incident got blown out of proportion, and it was termed an affair. (smiles)

Karan: Now I let you ask each other any questions you want. In case you ever wanted to.
Sushmita: Have you ever regretted being in a relationship?
Sanjay: No. Never.
Sushmita: How many times of all the times you've been in a relationship, have you really truly been in love?
Sanjay: All of them. I love to be in love.
Sushmita: If you are going to love every single woman that you're going to be with, then whom will you marry?
Sanjay: I love these heart attacks. (laughs)
Sushmita: (laughs) Marriage is a heart attack?

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Episode 13
February 18, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Bipasha | Introducing Lara

Karan: She's the ambassadress of sensuality in Hindi cinema. An ex-model, a Bengali beauty and the love of John Abraham's life, let's welcome the super sexy Bipasha Basu. (smiles). I'll ask you a very corny question, Bipasha - What's the raaz of your jism? (laughs)
Bipasha: (groans) Ok, there's a lot of food, good Bengali food, which made me quite healthy in the middle. (smiles) I was working back to back. There was just no time, and with the kind of food the film industry gives you, I became a tubby girl. I didn't realize it. But it's a good jolt. You learn from your mistakes.
Karan: Don't you want to thank John Abraham?
Bipasha: (laughs) John? Yes. He knew I didn't have time to work out, he gifted me a treadmill on my birthday, so now I can just go into the other room and start working out.

Karan: How long have you been seeing John for now?
Bipasha: Almost two and a half years. Karan: Before that you had a long relationship with Dino Morea. How do you look back at that relationship in comparison to what you have with John today?
Bipasha: Firstly, I don't compare them. In life, I'm not the first to have a second boyfriend. It's a part of growing up. When I met Dino, both of us were little children and we grew up to be different individuals. We still have great fun when we meet. Today, with the kind of maturity I've attained, I needed somebody as mature as John. It's not childhood love anymore, it's something deeper.
Karan: Is it easy to balance the equation with your ex?
Bipasha: Yes, we're talked about the most. Just because you move on does not mean you start hating that person.

Karan: My next guest is Miss Universe 2000, another successful crossover from modeling to the world of Indian cinema. Thank you for coming despite a leg injury, Lara.
Lara: (laughs) Despite a torn muscle actually. I'm as glamorous as I can be on crutches. (laughs)
Karan: What did you do?
Lara: This was a gym accident. (smiles) I like going to the gym because I like looking at the men working out. (laughs)

Karan: Do you know each other? Have you been friends? Do you like each other?
Lara: We've known each other as models, even before we got into the film industry.
Bipasha: Yes, we like each other. Don't flash your lie-o-meter at us. (laughs)
Lara: We don't get much opportunity to hang out. And surprisingly, Bipasha and I have known each other's respective other halves, better. (laughs) I knew Dino from Bangalore, since I was 15 years old.
Karan: What a happy foursome! And you've known Kelly, Bipasha?
Bipasha: Yes, I've known Kelly even before Lara did. We're best buddies. We've eaten together, woken up together. I've known Lara through Kelly. And honestly, once we've started acting, we've been very busy and not had time.

Karan: But does it make it your equation awkward? There are rumors even now about John and Lara.
Bipasha: I think the fact that we are here together says that none of us are bothered with it. I'm very happy for Lara and Kelly and I trust my boyfriend, most importantly.
Lara: We live with these kind of rumors. I've done Elaan with John. He's a great co-star. We've got a great chemistry on screen. There are very few co-stars with whom you build that kind of rapport. I think Bipasha and I are both very secure women in our relationships. The rumors are just all in a day's work.
Bipasha: People who talk openly are targeted more than the people who hide.

Karan: Both of you are perceived to be very beautiful, stunning women. Do you think people talk more about your jism than your performances?
Bipasha: I've been called a sex symbol from Day 1. Even in Raaz where I played a housewife. Filmmakers come to me with roles, which are not too sensual, with acting involved. And even if the media perceives me as a sex symbol, it's ok. It works for me. I'm just acting for a few years. I'm not here to create a legend.
Lara: This is what our cinema is about - you're supposed to look beautiful, sexy and glamorous. And as an Hindi actress, you do have a short span where you play the lead actress role, but I hope I can leave a beautiful legacy behind. (smiles)

Karan: Have you always wanted to be an Hindi film actress? I remember I came to chat with the Miss India girls.
Lara: And I was the one right at the back. (grins sheepishly)
Karan: Yes, looking least interested in what I had to say. I was rather shattered. (smiles)
Lara: That's not true. (laughs) Where's my lie-o-meter? (smiles) I've always wanted to act. I've come from Ghaziabad. Coming from a small town, I never knew I'd land up in Bombay. It's so competitive to get into this, and now that I'm here, I'm going give it everything that I've got.

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Episode 12
February 11, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Hrithik | Introducing Farhan

Karan: He came, he saw and boy! He conquered! A lot of people have asked me this - your pet name is Duggu. The origin of the name is?
Hrithik: From, Guddu, that's my dad's name. (Smiles)

Karan: I personally thought you were outstanding in Lakshya. I told you that. But after Lakshya, you haven't signed on a single film! Why is that?
Hrithik: I took my first break after five years. There were the award functions, my world tour for 3 and 1/2 months, and I'm helping my dad with his film.
Karan: Is there a particular reason why you haven't signed on any films. Is the writing or talent not worthy of Hrithik Roshan?
Hrithik: Yes, I've stretched my break too far. I need a break from my break! On a more serious note, no, there is nothing wrong with the industry or the talent. (Smiles) I think I'm at a place where I can have a choice - the film should raise my excitement to a certain level.

Karan: Till I saw Dil Chata Hai, I thought I was the coolest director. Not just me, but every filmmaker thought the traditional way is the only way. But Farhan Akhtar's cinema breaks every conventional norm. Farhan, Hrithik and me were talking about his creative sabbatical and being selective, do you endorse his view? Farhan: Yes, I do. I remember chatting with him, both before and during Lakshya, about focusing one film at a time. Maybe not taking a year and 1/2 as a break.
Karan: The two of you are childhood friends. Did you always know Hrithik would be a great star?
Farhan: It's funny. We all used to hang out at Uday Chopra's house, who had this big home camera. We kept filming each other and Uday would do screen tests. (laughs) We thought Uday would end up being a director, Hrithik, we were convinced would be an actor and they all thought I would be in jail. (laughs)
Karan: Yes, you were this super brat. I didn't, in my wildest dreams, think you would be a director. Did you, Hrithik?
Hrithik: No, I didn't, I thought maybe he'd take up bodybuilding. (laughs)

Hrithik: He's basically a great guy. He's also a damn good dancer. He used to get all the first prizes I used to get the second.
Karan: I remember seeing you people dancing in all these parties, you and Aditya Chopra - dancing and winning.
Hrithik: I just sat and watched. Now I imbibe them.
Farhan: Yes, when I took up dancing is when Hrithik became my disciple. (laughs)

Karan: Farhan, you come from a different world from your dad's. He's been a screenplay writer and a lyricist. Professionally, is it easy having a father like that?
Farhan: Having somebody like that can only be an advantage. He has tremendous talent and is a source of inspiration. He's committed to doing good quality work. He's completely rational and logical. That completes everything that I would want from a peer.
Karan: Has the generation gap never bothered you?
Farhan: I give him a lot more credit. He understands my lot a lot better than I understand his lot. He's evolved over the years to accept the new sensibilities. He's adamant about his view when he knows he's right. (laughs)

Karan: How was it being directed by your father, Hrithik?
Hrithik: It was fun. I was assisting him for six years before I started acting. So, we share the most amazing understanding between an actor and a director.

Karan: Do you think you're a perfectionist, Hrithik? You're very self-critical. You underestimate your own brilliance. You actually don't think you are a good dancer.
Hrithik: I hope you're right. (laughs) But I don't see it like that. It takes a lot out of me. I was really embarrassed on my first day of shooting the dance sequence in Kaho Na… Pyar Hai, so I just keep working hard.

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Episode 11
February 4, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Ekta | Introducing Sunita

Karan: She's truly the first lady of Indian television. Ekta Kapoor and I share a lot in common - we both swear by the letter K, we are extremely superstitious, both of us are fellow Geminis, we're both scared of flying… How does it feel to be a millionaire at 29, Ekta?
Ekta: Money is secondary, honestly. You have a company, which has started a new trend in a completely new industry. I always wanted to make a company but I didn't know if it would be big or small.

Karan: A common thing we have is Sunita Menon.
Ekta: I had a family, I didn't have a Guru. When a lot of things happened in my life, I lost control. Sunita helped me through a very bad phase in my life.

Karan: She's the spiritual advisor, the psychic advisor and the emotional advisor to practically the entire film fraternity. She's Mumbai's favorite clairvoyant. What is your take on the common perception of Sunita Menon?
Sunita: People normally expect an older woman, with gray hair, really fat, peering at something and saying, "Your Saturn is sitting in the 7th house and now this is what'll happen". And there I am in my jeans and t-shirt saying, "Hi, how're you doing?"
Karan: But earlier you were like that, weren't you? You wore a lot of white and pastel shades.
Sunita: I'm glad you brought it up. Two films used my character - odd characters in white, with long hair and candles burning in the background.
Karan: Yes, one of them was Ekta Kapoor's film - Krishna Cottage. (laughs)
Sunita: Certain people also perceived me differently, like I'm not supposed to have a sense of humor, I'm not supposed to know about fashion or art or music. It's thanks to Manish Malhotra who asked me to stop hiding behind those clothes.

Karan: Ekta comes to you often, Sunita. does she do everything you ask her to? Is there something which went wrong?
Sunita: Several! (laughs) She's very naughty and she doesn't listen to me. She'll argue with me and then finally come and say, "Yeah, I should've listened to you." (laughs) I told her to make films only after she's 31, but no, the spoilt kid will not listen and make crappy films. (smiles)
Karan: Yeah, I once heard someone say, "Ekta's making these films to avoid paying taxes." (laughs) But the two of you are so close, so are you and I. Do you think that you lose objectivity with someone because you're so close?
Sunita: Not blinded, but I can't bring myself to say bad things. It hurts me, but that's wrong on my part. I wish for those things to go away. Many times, I just haven't told you people.

Karan: Does she come to you for really small stuff too like I do? (laughs)
Sunita: She comes to me for smaller things too. But it's better than people who come to me and ask me if they'll be invited to a party. I feel sorry for people like that, because if that's your priority, if that's what makes you happy in life, then you have a problem.
Karan: Tell me another really silly question you are asked.
Sunita: When will I lose weight? (laughs)

Karan: There is also the letter K which I was told about after Kuch Kuch Hota Hai - that stick to K. Ekta, your first TV serial Hum Paanch did very well. Do you think it would've been better if it were called Kum Panch? (laughs)
Sunita: (laughs) Well, you see, numbers and alphabets accentuate your success. If you don't work hard, but have a K in your film name that's not going to make it a success.

Karan: Ekta, will you ever leave the alphabet K for anything in the world?
Ekta: No, it's stuck with me. It's my belief now, not my superstition.

Karan: I also hear you are a tyrant at work. (smiles) The whole of Balaji shudders at the mention of you name and presence. Is that true?
Ekta: Yeah! Ten people come together to make one thing. It's teamwork there. When one person messes it up, not as a mistake but because of a casual approach to work, then the show goes off air and I'm answerable to so many people who eat out of the show. We get money from that work, you can't take your work lightly.

Karan: What do you have to say, Ekta, when there are a whole lot of people who call your work regressive - to those critics or those opinions?
Ekta: Anything popular gets run down. (smiles) It's pure cliché. Seeing someone in a saree or a mangalsutra does not mean they are regressive. If people think so, it's their problem. If 80 per cent of the country's watching, they have a mind of their own. We are not teaching them what to watch.

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Episode 10
January 28, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Shabana | Introducing Shobhaa

Karan: She truly is an institution in acting. She's one actor who's looked beyond celluloid and the trappings of a glamorous world. She's taken on social, political and human causes, and devoted herself to them. Shabana Azmi, first thoughts on my show?
Shabana: I've never taken so long to get ready… typical of you. (laughs)

Karan: There's something on my mind, which I've been meaning to ask you. There's this hype and hoopla about the stars from our fraternity making it in Hollywood. You were one of the first to make your foray into that world. What are your thoughts when you read about this?
Shabana: You know, I'm very excited about it, because I think finally Hindi film is being noticed. I've just finished doing a film in Hollywood, it's called Water Born and people don't know about Hindi films in Hollywood. It's a pity, but I think it's on its way. In UK, people do know, but not so much in the US.

Shabana: I think the media hype helps (smiles) because we've had a lot of Indians in the jury in Cannes. When I was in Cannes, I gave away an award. Meera Nair was on the jury, Mrinal Sen was on the jury, but it never created that much hype as when Aishwarya was on the jury because she's from the mainstream cinema, the glamorous world.

Karan: There is also the media prejudice that exists. People in the fraternity believe that the media is nice to you only if you are good to them. Do you agree?
Shabana: Yes, I'm sure that happens. After all, the media are human beings. And human beings have their favorites and prejudices. (smiles)

Karan: Shobhaa De is a successful author, columnist and opinion maker. You can love her opinion, you can hate her opinion, but you certainly can't ignore her opinion. Does it bother you that you are sometimes termed as a socialite and a page 3 figure?
Shobhaa: It goes with the turf. I don't really care much about definitions. I do what I'm good at, what I'm known for, what's taken me 25 years to perfect. (smiles)
Shabana: Is that really true, Shobhaa? I think we are all conscious of the image that we have.
Shobhaa: It's important to know who we are. I see myself as a social commentator, who's chronicled the changing India.
Shabana: (smiling) Nicely put.
Karan: When I'm called a 'candy floss filmmaker', it does bother me.
Shobhaa: Well, Narayan Murthy is on page 3, so is Sachin Tendulkar. I think page 3 is for achievers. It's an occupational hazard; it's a part of what you do. All my life, I've done things I've believed in, dressed the way I wanted to and looked the way god made me.

Karan: What's your take on film journalism?
Shabana: She's the guru, she started it all.
Karan: Yes, you were the editor of Stardust, something that very few people knew about.
Shabana: Oh, are you the one who started calling me 'Bahana'? See, what you did to me!
Shobhaa: (laughs) But that was a different life in a different 'janam' as I say. But anyway, it was magazine whose time had come. It was the first "fanzine" of India. I enjoyed my 10 years very much. Even newspapers now are using Stardust lingo and topics. Politics, sports everything has been 'Stardustized'. (smiles)

Karan: What do you have to say really about the state of commercial cinema?
Shabana: I was talking to Rishi Kapoor this morning and he was saying that this is a fabulous time to be in as every kind of cinema is being made. As an actor of my age, I think there's a lot of scope. Ten years ago, a girl at 28 was old. Now I've got the best roles since the time I turned 40.
Karan: But you're talking about a few movies, not an industry that churns out 400 or 500 films a year.
Shobhaa: Shabana is an exceptional actor, that's why she's getting all these roles. But there are alarmingly young girls getting into the industry. The industry in cruel to age and very cruel to women.
Karan: But the portrayal of films has to come of age now.
Shobhaa: Karan, girls in their late 30s or early 40s are being offered mothers' roles. I find that insulting and frankly ridiculous.
Karan: What do you do when you're offered those mother roles in mainstream films, Shabana? Shabana: I don't do them. (laughs) And I get offered big bucks, Karan. It doesn't interest me.

Karan: What are your thoughts when you read a column where she's criticized a film or an individual?
Shabana: She's a clever and interesting writer. You may not agree with what she says but she's a real masala writer. She can hook you from her first line. As long as it's not turned on me. (laughs)

Karan: Shobhaa, I represent the film fraternity and I've never been at the receiving end of your criticism. If you don't like my film promise me now that you'll never write about it. (laughs)
Shobhaa: Even being a friend is not protection enough, I'm sorry. (laughs) I'm true to what I do and I've built up a track record for 25-30years. My bonding is with my readers. If you make a lousy film and I think it's a dud, I'll call it a dud. (smiles)

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Episode 9
January 21, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Sunny | Introducing Bobby

Karan: He's a super star and still extremely introverted. He likes to maintain a low profile. Many women say that in an industry full of boys, he's the only man. You are media shy and feel awkward giving an interview...
Sunny: Yes, it's true. Right now, I've come over here, but I don't know what I'll be doing. I get so nervous.

Karan: You were wild in your younger days and there were many girlfriends. And so you were packed off to London.
Sunny: Wild? Yes, when you're young, you do a lot of silly and stupid things. Now one looks back and thinks, "Why the hell did I do that?" But it was fun and one misses all that. Actually as everyone says, I'm a shy guy. And I wanted to join films. Being in India, being my dad's son, it was difficult being treated normal. All the time you're either treated over nicely or treated like shit. I just wanted to go somewhere where no one knew me. And that's why I went to London, I wasn't packed off.
Karan: And you did a course in acting in London.
Sunny: Yes, it was in Birmingham. I was in a theater called the Old Web Theater. I was there for a year and a half.
Karan: Do you think that helped at all when you came back, to face the camera in India?
Sunny: Yes, it did. I had rarely been to a studio or shooting with my dad. (laughs) So when I was over there, working on the stage… I slowly broke the ice, started getting more comfortable. And when I came back to Bombay, I was very confident. I look back and see that as the period of time I got educated with my work.

Karan: Very interestingly, your wife today, Pooja, gave you lessons in Shakespeare when you were in London. Is that true? You can't imagine - Sunny, this big action hero, taking lessons in Shakespeare with his wife! (laughs)
Sunny: (smiles) Yes, she used to help me on that because I was not aware of him at that time. I wasn't too sure about the language spoken and she being there was a great help.
Karan: So do you think your wife helped you in your vocation of acting?
Sunny: Yes, she did.

Karan: He's cool, he's sophisticated, he's hip. The youngest Deol is also a Deol who can dance. So do you make your brother and your father dance to your tunes?
Bobby: I did try. Now I'm a father so I know how it feels. (smiles)

Karan: You're the only one who can share Sunny's clothes. Apparently, he's so possessive about them.
Bobby: I remember when I was in my 10th standard I sneaked into his cupboard. At that point, faded jeans in different colours were in. So I got a pair of green jeans, a green shirt and leather tie of his.

Karan: He's also your father figure, someone older that you also have respect for.
Bobby: Definitely. No brother would stop his work and give up what he's doing to launch his brother. I love him so much that I'd do anything for him and he'd do anything for me.
Karan: That is true. Sunny, you put your career on hold when Barsaat got delayed.
Sunny: Yes, I know. But the film was being made the way it had to be made. One doesn't think of all that. That was my goal then, nothing else.
Karan: There was an upswing-downswing with the film. A change in the director and script...
Sunny: Yes, it went through all that. You know, when you try too hard things do get a little difficult.

Karan: It does come across that you're very close but there are differences characteristically. Bobby is more media friendly than you. Is there some kind of an inner war against the media?
Sunny: No, it's not a war or anything. It's just that one doesn't know how to tackle it or go about it. I'd love to be like everybody else - be written about or spoken about. I get more uptight because they're putting you down all the time. I'm the kind of person who'll say, "Forget it" and run away from things.
Karan: And you, Bobby, do you think the media has behaved unfairly with you and your family?
Bobby: I think so too. But that's the way media is. They do it to everybody. I hardly speak to the media myself.

Karan: What's your take on these family dramas as you said. Films that are coming year after year like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge or Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?
Sunny: I don't know much about what they say. But when media picks it up and says just another that kind of a film, it's not right. It's irrelevant whether it is or not. At the end of the day, you go and watch it. Don't review it and make up the minds of people who are going to watch that film.

Karan: You, Bobby, haven't had any spat with filmmakers but had one with the two Kapoor sisters, Karisma and Kareena.
Bobby: (laughs) If anything happened, I'm sure it was quite immature. We were in Singapore and witnessed a lot of things there.
Karan: But does it make it awkward? You belong to a small world really.
Bobby: That's the sad part. I don't like to be not friendly with people.

Karan: There was also the movie London, which eventually became Dillagi. It would've been the first crossover film. Now that Gurinder Chadda is so acclaimed, are there any regrets for not having made that movie.
Sunny: No regrets as such. If I had been a sensible businessman then, I wouldn't have let go of anything. I would've gone ahead and made the film. Even financially, most actors get into production and get out soon. I'm the only one who gets the beating of the financial sector again and again. (laughs) I've got so much vision. I just want to keep making films.

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Episode 8
January 14, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Gauri | Introducing Suzanne

Karan: She is the most envied woman in India today - Mrs Shah Rukh Khan, Gauri Khan. She's cool, confident and extremely glamorous. A proud mother of two children, Aryan and Suhana, she likes to maintain a low profile. At heart, she's still a simple Delhi girl who has her roots and values intact. And she is THE most stabilizing factor in Shah Rukh Khan's life.

Karan: The one thing you're fed up of talking about is your big love story with Shah Rukh. And the thing that's very shocking is you've known him all your life, Gauri! You met him when you were 12?
Gauri: (laughs) 14 or 14 and a half.
Karan: So you've known him for 20 years now. And you've had no other relationship. Tell me, you nearly didn't marry him. There was a time when you ran off, broke off from him. Playing hard to get, from I hear.
Gauri: (smiles) It was just that I was too young. I thought it's too early for us to decide anything about marriage so I took a short break for a year or so. I wanted to do my own thing, be with my friends, go out with people… He was too possessive. I couldn't handle that. That was the only reason I wanted my own space.
Karan: He came running after to you to Bombay. He found you in a beach, after he had looked at all the other beaches. You were very rude. (smiles)
Gauri: (laughs) How I avoided him! It was unbelievable. He was totally possessive. He was curbing my style, whatever I was… Now he's more relaxed about it. Initially, he was hysterical.

Karan: There is another thing common with the two of you. Cultural-religious differences. Gauri, you're a Punjabi girl married to a Khan and Suzanne, you are a Khan married to a Punjabi boy. Tell me how does that play a role in you marriage today?
Gauri: Shah Rukh doesn't have any parents, unfortunately. So, it's me who takes charge of festivals, Diwali or Holi. So the influence of my kids would be a lot with the Hindu part. But the thing is Aryan is so into Shah Rukh, that he would follow his religion, I think. He'll always say, "I'm a Muslim". There is a balance - I respect Shah Rukh's religion, but that doesn't mean that I would convert. I don't believe in that. Everybody is an individual and they should follow their religion. But there should obviously be no disrespect.
Susanne: Honestly, what she's saying is absolutely right. You marry into another religion but what you have been born into and brought up with remains. Let your kids have the best of both worlds. It's a good combination as both religions are very beautiful and very strong. Hrithik too is totally like that. He's not too staunch. He does believe in certain rituals, which we have to carry out which I believe in as well.

Karan: But do these rumors get to you, Susanne? Have you ever felt like, "Oh God! I married an actor, why am I dealing with this?"
Susanne: If there is anyone who gives him the slightest clue that she's attracted to him, he comes home, sits and discuses it with me. (smiles) We talk about it. It's like a friendship thing. I don't think that at any point I've been insecure because of this reason. Insecurity comes when you don't know the truth. But I know the truth.

Karan: What's interesting is that you have different personalities, different temperaments. Lets begin with you, Gauri. You're quite forthright and critical with you're opinion when you see Shah Rukh's films and as opposed to that, Susanne, I think that you like not to hurt him and say what you truly feel. (Susanne smiles)
Gauri: I don't think I'm over critical. If he's bad in a film, it's ok. I don't need to praise him even if he's bad. He has to accept the fact that he was not good. I am audience. If I feel that he's over-acted or if he isn't great, I should tell him. I haven't seen many of his bad films.

Karan: And you know that he gets quite upset when you say things like that…
Gauri: He does. I respect him for his profession, that he's a great actor. Everybody says he's 'King Khan'. But my point is that he knows that. He should know something which he doesn't hear from other people. I should tell him because nobody else is going to tell him.
Karan: And Susanne, I think honey coat it. You're so sweet. That's your personality. Have you told Hrithik ever about a performance? Or are you always hoping that, "No, it's going to be good, it'll be great"?
Susanne: You're right. I always like to see the better side of the performance. I first tell him the good, then tell him the bad. But now, as I'm growing older, I feel that it's right to be what she is - very brutally honest, because it's your spouse and you have to be honest. It's important to give the right feedback. If you can't tell who will.

Karan: Susanne, do you want to tell Gauri about this conversation that Hrithik had with Shah Rukh that got Hrithik so wound up, so touched?
Susanne: It was the day when we found out that he hadn't won the National Award, which took all of us by surprise. He wasn't showing that he was disappointed, but I knew he was. That day, Shah Rukh called up and spoke to Hrithik and told him, "Don't feel bad because in my book, you would've gotten the award. I don't think any other deserved it more than this." And that compliment took him to cloud nine.
Karan: He told me, "It was like I won the National Award. Shah Rukh Khan called me and told me that I deserved the award. I feel I won it."

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Episode 7
January 7, 2005

VIDEOS:
Introducing Amitabh | Introducing Abhishek

Karan: Another word for Indian cinema would be Amitabh Bachchan. At this age, how do you do it? You do the Shava Shava at 60. Where do you get all the energy from?
Amitabh: Circumstances make you do strange things. I had to wake up in the morning and face a lot of problems and issues. But I also enjoy working in cinema. The products whose ads I feature in keep my company going. Our company went under a rough patch, ran up a lot of debts. I had to start working again. But I do enjoy it.

Karan: What is like to see Abhishek on celluloid?
Amitabh: Nothing could be more exciting. To see Abhishek grow up into a young man and in the same fraternity that I have been, to see him gradually working his way up has been very rewarding. There have been accusations that Jaya and me have not given the kind of backing that 'star parents' are expected to. But we are happy that Abhishek is able to stand on his own feet.

Karan: (smiles) I went through an interview of Abhishek's, in which he had said, "I always want to know what my father thinks of me as an actor." Do you think your father is over critical of you, Abhishek?
Abhishek: No. He's been anything but critical. Ma reacts like I'm a child when they see my film. Pa, if I may say so, like a colleague. He's been the one stable factor. He's very honest with a great amount of love and understanding.
Amitabh: I'm critical at times. In Yuva, it was evident the actor is making an effort to sound Bihari. Every aspect, every line should be perfect in a film or it'll stand out.
Karan: You seem to be quite in agreement with what is said against you, Abhishek. (smiles)
Abhishek: When you've got somebody like Pa telling you what he thinks, just as an actor, you'll listen.

Karan: Has it ever happened that you've watched an Amitabh Bachan performance, not liked something and told him about it?
Abhishek: Yes, I didn't like him in Boom. With all due respect to the filmmakers, I didn't like watching the actor who I idolize, to be relegated to a role, which wasn't the main actor in a story. I told him that.
Amitabh: Well, that is the universal opinion. (smiles) But really, Karan, at my age, I don't think it's commercially possible. There has to be a young leading man, and a young leading lady. The whole concept of Boom was very tongue-in-cheek. I don't think the audiences were prepared for it. It's funny, its sarcastic (smiles) and the gorgeous women got me to do the movie.

Karan: How does it feel to have the most eligible bachelor at home? He's looked upon as this really sexy man. He has these link ups: Preity Zinta, Rani Mukerjee, Lara...
Abhishek: I keep saying that I've got good-looking parents. All three women - Preity, Rani, Lara - can beat me up. (smiles)
Amitabh: It's really, really cool. He's my son, after all (laughs). I get to meet a variety of young women. When I read about his alleged link ups, I know they are not true, but it's exciting. If he is seeing someone seriously, he'd come and tell me about it. That hasn't happened, so...

Karan: I read somewhere that you are buddies with your dad and not so much with your mother and your sister.
Abhishek: I'm equally close to my father as I am to my mother. But a mother will remain that - a mother - my sister is my elder sister. I cannot look upon her in any other way. My father plays many different roles - he's also been my best friend, he's been by me, unrelenting.

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Episode 6
December 24, 2004

VIDEOS:
Introducing Gurinder | Introducing Farah

Karan: She's one Indian we are all really proud of. The Indian element in all her movies has put Punjab into every house in Manhattan. They are cross-cultural in theme and represent a certain brand of humour that's typical only of Gurinder. Welcome to my show.
Gurinder: Are you going to be horrible to me? (smiles) The reputation that precedes you and the show says so.

Karan: To start off, congratulations on all your international successes. Bend It Like Beckham made 70 million dollars worldwide?
Gurinder: I made it for the England audience, but I didn't expect the success it was in India and America. What people forget is that we have a very international audience out there, which has its heritage in immigration and migration. My films appeal to those people. The people who have problems with my work are cultural purists.

Karan: People criticize that you are an Indian, but are selling India to the west.
Gurinder: In Britain, I'm a British filmmaker, selling Britain to the world. My husband's American, so I've been adopted by the Hollywood community. I experience all 3 continents. Politicians in India come up to me and say you've made India very proud. At the same time, Tony Blair tells me, "Wow! I love your films. Fly the British flag." I try with my films to bridge the international gap. My films are always British films, from a British Indian perspective.

Karan: Is there a loss of identity at times - a feeling of neither here nor there?
Gurinder: Not at all. It's an affirmation of a new identity and that's what my films are about.

Karan: My next guest tonight is a leading Indian choreographer. She's also a director, who with her first film killed the myth that a woman director makes only films about women and which most often, has an alternate cinema edge to it. Her first film was a man's film all the way. Congratulations on Main Hoon Na. Did you ever believe this would happen to you one day?
Farah: Karan, you've known me. I always knew it would happen. (laughs) I totally believe in commercial cinema. I made it with all my heart and I knew it would be a commercial success.

Karan: Have you found it difficult to be a filmmaker, even in the West?
Gurinder: Only initially, yes. People you go to finances for in the West are not interested in seeing stories from a female point of view. I can make small, arty films, which appeal to the critics, but I'm going for a massive global audience. Just mainstream England is not enough for me. I mix people from different countries and different races. I put Sardars on the map. Bend It Like Beckam was a movie where Sardars were seen as three-dimensional, as human. It's scary to people, as I'm a woman re-writing history and perception as you may see it.
Karan: So you put Punjab on the map. Have you ever felt that, Farah?
Farah: Not until my movie released. Suddenly, men were being threatened by me. They said, "Why has she made this action movie?" They thought just because I'm a woman, I'd make a chick flick or something.

Gurinder: Oh! I've seen her on the sets. She's scary. She's a tyrant. (laughs)
Karan: (laughs) Are you a tyrant too, Gurinder?
Gurinder: No. Actually, I'm quite timid. I go home and make food for my husband. It's about having your own vision. I've had British financers asking me why does this person have to be Indian? It could be a white person. With Bend it Like Beckham, I'm at the forefront of saying that you can make commercial, international movies with people of colour in them.

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Episode 5
December 17, 2004

VIDEOS:
Introducing Fardeen | Introducing Zayed

Karan: He's stylish. He's sophisticated. He's suave. He may not have box office success, but he certainly has the women. You get the women going, don't you, Fardeen?
Fardeen: That's what I've been told. I don't do anything consciously. (laughs) You want me to stop the bullshit?
Karan: Yes, tell us. It must be flattering that women want to do strange things to you. Do you play hard to get?
Fardeen: Yes. It's flattering and a little scary sometimes. I play hard to get every now and then. (laughs)

Karan: I found out that you waited tables when you were a student out of the country.
Fardeen: Yes, when I was in the university, I was on a tight budget. My dad didn't give me too much money. So I worked.
Karan: How was the experience?
Fardeen: I didn't get along with the chef. I took orders as well and when I didn't understand what people asked for, I'd just pretend to know and write something. The chef would come out and yell at me. (laughs)

Karan: I've heard about you doing naughty things in nightclubs. And I mean bashing people up. Is it true?
Zayed: Really? (laughs) Actually I'm very mellow. But if a person rubs me the wrong way once too many times…
Fardeen: Yes, he does have some temper.
Zayed: He shouldn't talk. I learnt it all from him! He just covers his tracks really well (laughs). I'll soon learn hopefully. It was pure self-defense. It was uncalled for. I'm forced into these situations.

Karan: Both of you are westernized and have this 'cool dude' image. Do you think that restricts the roles that come your way, Zayed?
Zayed: The movie business has changed so dramatically. There's a great international market out there that wants to see Indian movies, which make people like me more feasible. I don't think it's stopping me in anyway. I'm not cooler than Bollywood. In my heart of hearts, I'm very Indian, very Bollywood.
Karan: What about you, Fardeen? Do you think you come across alien on screen?
Fardeen: All actors are restricted in some way by their physiology, their looks, demeanor, the whole attitude. You know about casting Karan... I wouldn't play a villager. I would look ridiculous. I would look like Jaadu.
Karan: (laughs)
Fardeen: You got to know your USP. You got to know your strengths, your weaknesses, your limitations, and capitalize on them. I've done contemporary roles, the Gen-X, appealing to both NRIs and city audiences.

Karan: You're in relationship with Malaika, Zayed. I've met her. She's a very sweet girl. There has been controversy with that. There were rumors about you and Esha...
Zayed: Being an actor, this sort of journalism which matches people up, will be there. Esha and me are great friends. We share a great rapport. We're buddies and gestures like putting an arm around each other is read as, "Oh! He's cheating on her!" or "They're going out". We are just good friends. She's part of the troop that I go out and party with.
Karan: (smiles) Ok, turning left now.
Fardeen: (Gets up and pretends to run away)
Karan: (laughs) You can't get away, Fardeen, we have security. Kareena Kapoor - alleged romance. Did you have an affair?
Fardeen: No, we didn't have an affair. (Karan beeps his lie-o-meter and laughs). I would've loved that affair if we did. I find her absolutely stunning. She has a cute, almost perfect, heart-shaped butt.
Karan: (laughs) But do you think that's why Shahid has a problem with you? Because he thinks something happened?
Fardeen: I'm sure that impression could go out. But it's with her and me. We are the way we are.

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Episode 4
December 10, 2004

VIDEOS:
Introducing Aishwarya | Introducing Sanjay

Karan: Miss World 1994, Aishwarya Rai. She has face that can launch a thousand films.
Aishwarya: I'm always greeted with that line - the most beautiful face in the world. I'm awkward, I still don't know what to say to that.
Karan: So you think it would be a change to be told you're not looking nice today? People say you are not spontaneous, that it's all poised and perfect. You are the bride of India who invites a lot of prejudices.
Aishwarya: (laughs) Initially it hurts, but then when you get to know who said, where it's stemming from and why, it's easier to not take it to heart. As a model, I had the natural body language. I was never trained. If people can't accept your natural graces, they attribute it to being put on.

Sanjay: She didn't want to work in my film, Bajirao Mastani, for different reasons. But it was portrayed as a rift.
Aishwarya: Yes, we discussed it in my house. It was his vision as a director. The cast he saw was ideal for the film. But I could not work with the team he planned. We were amicable about it.
Karan: What circumstances? (smirks)
Aishwarya: Well, I was game to play Mastani, but not to the Bajirao he had in mind. But the press said, Aishwarya "walks out on Bajirao-Mastani". He was obviously hurt by that headline.

Karan: How does it feel to see other directors portray Aishwarya in their films? Because admittedly she looked best in your two films.
Sanjay: I don't think they understand the aura of Aishwarya Rai, her beauty. I think she's struggling in other films, groping from the director. But we share such a great rapport. I think she'll be completely deprived of details from others.
Aishwarya and Sanjay: (laugh)

Karan: How is it working with Rani Mukerjee?
Sanjay: Rani is the girl next door. She's completely mad. I had a wonderful working relationship with her. She may not have the aura of a star like Aishwarya, but she is a fantastic actress.
Karan: And, Aishwarya, how does it feel to see someone else being the lead role in his films?
Aishwarya: Working with him is being with a friend. There is a possessive streak but not so much as to not be able to see him working with anyone else.

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Episode 3
December 3, 2004

VIDEOS:
Introducing Preity | Introducing Saif

Karan: Preity Zinta should really have a talk show of her own because she can talk and talk and talk and she doesn't care if you're not listening. Everyone calls her cute but she hates being referred to as bubbly. Why is that?
Preity: I also have my good days and bad days. There are other aspects to my character other than 'bubbly' and 'talkative' (smiles). I can't be bubbly always. Even as a person you know me, I've lots of energy and pep but not ALL THE TIME...

Karan: How do the rumors about Saif Ali Khan, Brett Lee or Brian bother you?
Preity: Uf-Oh! Being single is such a problem. I was just being friendly with these people. And I think I'm pretty honest. If I'm seeing someone, then I say that I'm seeing someone.

Karan: The other day, this huge fan of yours came up to me and asked me if you had a fixation with white men. Is it true that if you're not white, Preity is out of sight?
Preity: (shrieks) You just made that up, didn't you? No, there's no such thing. A, I've to like the person and B, it doesn't matter if you're white, black, gray, pink, orange.
Karan: It's the heart that counts. You're like this Mills & Boon's kind of a girl.
Preity: Yes (gestures) dhak-dhak dhak-dhak dhak-dhak Saif: I think Preity and I share a lot of trust. I've never behaved with her in a manner that's physical.
Karan: But maybe that's not what you give out. When we were in New York, you got a text from Fardeen saying...
Saif: "I heard that you and Preity are at it. Be careful, brother." Just then Amrita called and I told her this is what happened. It creates a certain amount of insecurity when you are in America for 40 days.

Preity: And after that, he ignored me the whole time we were in New York! I'll never get involved with a married man. This rumor is about an alleged romance. And he's my buddy!

Karan: Do you think Preity's attractive as a woman? With or without make up?

Saif: Well, some mornings. (laughs)

Karan: Going back to Kal Ho Na Ho, Saif, you were working in a Shah Rukh Khan domain. How did that make you feel? A little insecure?
Saif: Yeah, well, you'd weep when he performs! But honestly, I did feel insecure very fleetingly. The root of insecurity is not knowing your job really. If you do know what you're doing, then it starts going places. Shah Rukh is not at all selfish as a performer, he's concerned towards the big picture, he's a sort of paternal figure on the sets. It would be infantile to be jealous. He just really loves what he does. I'm basically paranoid. I don't enjoy any movie. I think a good movie is a nightmare. I'd look at Shah Rukh looking a little thoughtful or worried about something and I obviously thought it was me! A persecution complex. But, of course, we talked it out, smoked a cigarette and I realized it wasn't really me.

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Episode 2
November 26, 2004

VIDEOS:
Introducing Rani | Introducing Kareena

Karan: There was a low swing and up swing in your career. There was a lull during your "B" grade films, like Badal, Bichoo etc.
Rani: Yes, but I learnt a lot from those movies. That's the time you realize what you want to do and what you don't want to do. That's how you learn to respect the best. I got to know a lot of actors and directors and I share a great rapport with them.

Karan: Rani and I were chatting about how she's become selective today. I don't think you have become selective yet. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Kareena: No, you're absolutely right. I believe in the strategy of Sridevi, Madhuri and Karisma Kapoor. And banking on one or two films in a year is not what I want to do.
Karan: So you disagree with Rani's theory?
Kareena: Well, the films that she has are bankable. She's working with great directors. But I don't know... A mixed bag works for me.

Karan: Can co-stars really be friends? Are you'll friends? I have a lie-o-meter. So whenever I think someone's lying... (beeping the lie-o-meter)
Rani and Kareena: No, we're friends.
Kareena: Let me correct this, we're not the best of friends. She may have gotten pissed with me, I may have gotten pissed with her, but she has been with me in situations. She has seen me cry and that means a lot to me.

Karan: You've been linked with all sorts of people. Like you and me, Rani, have been allegedly married. You've been linked with Govinda, who is married. Does that make you uncomfortable?
Rani: You and me will be married one day. (They all laugh)
Karan: Oh, my god! is that a proposal? Go down on your knees.
Rani: No, rumours don't make me uncomfortable. I think the press should get a little more responsible. We just need to do our work and ignore these rumours as at the end of the day we come back home and are answerable to our parents.

Karan: So when a film like Kal Ho Na Ho wasn't offered to you, did it bother you?
Rani: To be honest, I didn't get to hear about it first from you, and we're supposed to be friends! So it hurt a little. And I did go and cry in front of Aamir. I'm telling you this on your show!

Karan: One thing you have that Kareena doesn't?
Kareena: I can answer that, Yash Chopra.
Karan: One thing Kareena has that you don't have?
Rani: Shahid.

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Episode 1
November 19, 2004

VIDEOS:
Introducing Kajol | Introducing SRK

Karan: Did you always want to break the rules? Do you always do what is not the obvious thing?
Kajol: No. I do infact what is the obvious thing for me to do. I do what I feel like doing and I do what I feel is right, more than anything else. And I did what I thought was right at every point in time. Which is why I think it worked.

Karan: One thing I'm sure everyone wants to know... what does it feel like to be Shah Rukh Khan?
Shah Rukh: Nothing at all. I've been Shah Rukh Khan now for 38 years, so it's really easy to live with myself.

Kajol: My on-screen chemistry with Shah Rukh never bothered Ajay. People like to believe the worst, so they rumored that he asked me not to work with Shah Rukh which is completely untrue.
Shah Rukh: Ajay would probably only have a problem with me when Aryan wants to ask out Nysa.

Karan: How is it to be parents?
Kajol: I think it's the best feeling in the world. It's the one thing in life that touches you and everything in your life.
Shah Rukh: Everything and everybody has taken a back seat when the kids are concerned.
Kajol: There's nothing else that can take their place, there's nothing else you wanna be except to be a parent.
Shah Rukh: I wouldn't mind walking around in Spiderman tights for the rest of my life just for Aryan.

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