Anuradha SenGupta: I can't believe this — no hot line dialing, no celebrity guest and here I am on the set of KBC with SRK.
Shah Rukh Khan: We are good to everyone, even news channels.
Anuradha SenGupta: I want to know exactly how good will you get, are you ready
for a role reversal?Shah Rukh Khan: I'm all right, I'm an actor. Whatever role you tell me to do, I'll try and do it to the best of my ability.
Anuradha SenGupta: So, let me live a dream role and play the hostess. There are no lifelines, some multiple choice questions and some essay type questions. The first question — Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the founders of Amazon, Rediff, Google or Yahoo?
Shah Rukh Khan: Is it Amazon?
Anuradha SenGupta: I'll give you a lifeline. You have 50:50. I'm getting rid of Amazon and Yahoo.
Shah Rukh Khan: Then Google.
Anuradha SenGupta: Okay then, this game has started. Shah Rukh is doing KBC because — it's a chance to connect one-on-one with fans; he's glad to be on TV, where he started and so and he's come a full circle; for the money or because 'where AB goes, SRK follows'.
Shah Rukh Khan: Three of the above. I think the money is nice and it gives me a chance to be in touch with the people. I also like the quizzing bit and yes, it gives me a chance to be back on the television too.
Anuradha SenGupta: I saw you hug one of the contestants, I think it was during episode one. For me, that fleeting and yet emotional contact seemed to symbolise what a star or an entertainer manages to do for a fan or a faceless person.
Shah Rukh Khan: The simplest aspect of it is that I'm a pathan and that's how I meet everyone—men and women. I don't like the word fans because it's sort of presumptuous that everybody likes you. But I meet audience and whether they like me or not, I do tend to hug people. In movies, I can't be hugging the villain — it wouldn't look right — so, one plays the character. In real life, I'm like that and when I meet real people, I don't do it with the intention that 'if I do this, it'll be nice'. I hug because I feel good.
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