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Cyrus Sahukar on how he fits into the “Hole in the Wall”
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Photo: K. Murali Kumar
Thumbs up! Cyrus Sahukar
If one needs to explain assembly line production to a youngster, the current state of reality shows on Indian television is a fine example. So when Cyrus Sahukar, who is hosting a new reality show Hole in the Wall for Pogo picked u
p the phone, one was expecting another routine but it was surprising to note that he was also bored of clones. “For long I haven’t seen a reality show where participants are not sobbing or cribbing about the judges. This one is going to be different.”
No pressure
A Japanese format, the show will have two teams of three people facing a moving wall. As the moving barrier speeds towards the waiting teams, the participants must quickly contort themselves to fit through the weird and whacky cut out shapes in the wall — or be swept into the pool below. “Here if you lose, you get dunked in a pool. So there is no pressure. The wall is light as a feather and the pool is only four feet deep. So the element of fear is also ruled out.” Is it for kids? “No the participants’ age ranges from 18 to 40. There are interesting contests with shocking results, like the one between the overweight and the thin ones. And you know, the overweight ones won it.” So what’s the trick? “Sharp coordination, something I lack! The game requires fast thinking, dexterity and clever teamwork to keep dry. After a while I managed to fit into a few.”
On a serious note, he adds, “The way a team of women in their late 30s broke into a crazy dance in the pool after the contest made it clear that most of us have stopped enjoying simple joys of life and keep yearning for the childhood days.”
A product of Delhi’s St. Columba’s School, Cyrus says he was a lazy bum. “Had there been an Olympic sport which required sitting on the grass for a long time, I would have been a champ,” he quips.
Known for his spoofs on Simi Grewal and Navjot Singh Sidhu, Cyrus says his parents were excited when he made it to television as a veejay. “But when they saw what I am doing on MTV, they realised that I am still a lafanga. Gradually they learnt to live with it.”
Of late, the look of MTV has changed. It is also full of reality shows where youngsters are allowed to use four letter words freely. And the situation has reached such a level that there is a beep sound every other minute. “True, the channel is fast turning into a beep channel. The idea was to show without much editing how youngsters react in a pressure situation. We had little idea that the vocabulary has changed so much. We are looking into it.”
ANUJ KUMAR
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