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Akshay with 13 Hot Girls
Vomiting up milk, suffocating under water and trying to free your head from a box full of cockroaches. And seeing models without their make-up! Reality TV seriously doesn’t get better than this.
After Rakhi Ka Swayamwar and an upcoming show called Lux Perfect Bride, it seemed Indian reality TV shows could not be redeemed. Until, that is, the second season of Akshay Kumar’s Khatron Ke Khiladi started airing on Colors this week.
When the show was first launched over a year ago, it was a hit. I was glued to it every weeknight, watching female models and actors, and their partners perform stunts to try and win the grand prize. Even though it was nowhere close to the original Fear Factor when it came to insect and other creepy crawly consumption, it was like nothing we had seen on Indian TV before.
This one promises to be as riveting, with models/actors/singers such as, Sushama Reddy, Jesse Randhawa, Carol Gracias, Bruna Abdullah, Mandira Bedi, Nauheed Cyrusi, Rosa Catalano, Pia Trivedi, Rupali Ganguly, Shonali Nagrani, Shweta Salve and Anushkha Manchanda. And there’s Sonika Kaliraman, a pro wrestler.
The show is quite a revalation into the personalities of these models. Last season, Pooja Bedi wouldn’t stop talking, but you had to admire her guts when it came to doing the stunts. Vidya Malvade was so cowardly that one wondered, as did Akshay on many occasions, why she had taken part in an adventure show at all. 