I thought Rashami Desai is the kachcha limbo of the lot: Rohit Shetty

Mumbai: Rohit Shetty is back as host on ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi: Darr Ka Blockbuster Returns’. Speaking to us at the launch of the show Rohit revealed that the audience can expect a lot of Rohit’s trademark action this season too. He says, “People always want to know whether I blew up some cars, so that’s the reason we put that as the first shot in the promo, this season. Another stunt we had planned was similar to something Aamir Khan did in Dhoom 3, which was climbing down a building and collecting flags on the way.”

Speaking about the contestants Rohit reveals that the participants were quite brave this time around. “After a point Ashish Chowdry would emotionally blackmail me, by acting that he is scared. But nobody was scared; instead I used to get scared every time Sana (Khan) did a stunt. My worry was that if she doesn’t do the stunt at all, what will we show on TV? I thought Rashami (Desai) is the kachcha limbo of the lot because I have always seen her crying on TV, the only time I saw her laughing was when we did Comedy Circus together. So I had thought she may get eliminated in the first week itself but to my surprise she performed well. Rakesh Kumar (The Indian Kabbadi team Capitan) is a rooted guy. He’s an Arjuna award winner but the most simple guy in the show. I went on the show to make the contestants perform stunt but the biggest stunt for me was getting Sana to perform any of her stunts. I used to get nervous that we spent so many months designing these stunts, will Sana perform it or not?”

Shetty is all praise for actress Asha Negi and her never say die attitude. “Asha (Negi) hurt herself on the bone of her nose and she was bleeding but she didn’t stop doing the stunt. I had to go and get her to stop. Even after that she says, “Sir continue karte hai stunt, aap mujhe eliminate toh nahi karoge?” She’s a very tough girl.”

Among the funny anecdotes of the show, that Shetty shared was an embarrassing secret about Rashami Desai. “Rashami has a peculiar habit that you guys won’t see in the show, so I have to share the torture I went through. Before the stunt we used to have a procedure to decide who would do what stunt. So we had made olive oil extract and Rashami was told she will have to drink it. She straightaway said, “No sir I can’t drink this because I eat very less, I drink only half a glass of water daily, I can’t have this.” So I said okay don’t do it. After that for 40 days whenever I saw her she either had fafda or dhokla or chips in her mouth. Once her husband Nandish was injured, and while checking the injury too she was munching on something. We had to pay extra cargo change for her khakhra and theplas.”