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Young girls participating in the road show for AXN Xtreme.
AXN channel hosted a road show at Defence Colony in South Delhi today to generate excitement for the premier of "AXN Xtreme" in which Indians and Pakistanis would be battling it out for their country's pride this coming Sunday.
It required a lot of coaxing and prodding by the programme host, Madhukar Malhotra, to persuade university and school-going students to climb the black-coloured AXN truck and perform, if not exactly daredevilry, but some light entertaining stuff.
The acts that the boys and girls performed, though with some reluctance, included rendering the famous dialogue of Bollywood's film-star Shah Rukh Khan from the film "Devdas", holding freezing ice cubes for a minute-and-a-half on a day when it was severely cold, riding a mini-cycle to get onto the back of the truck and hold your breath, eat 30 chillies.
A boy who not only shared the name of yesteryear's superstar Rajesh Khanna but also bore a striking resemblance to him won the first prize for riding the mini-cycle and singing the old Hindi film song "Jab Dil Hi Tut Hi Gaya".
Two Class XII students, Priyanka Gupta and Chandni Verma, were sporting enough to eat nearly three-dozen chillies within the stipulated two-minute time.
Both said that it was the channel's popularity that motivated them to take the plunge.
Then there were some college students who were asked to propose to a girl.
Created in its trademark action-adventure lifestyle, "AXN Xtreme" would show contestants participating in an obstacle race, spending time in a tank full of cockroaches, allow hordes of bees to settle on their bodies and to scale imposing heights. The underlying objective of this programme would be to test the contestants grit, courage and most importantly, mental toughness.
By Madhur Tankha Photo: Rajeev Bhatt
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