Farah Khan: the talk show host

Published September 20, 2009

Motormouth Farah Khan began her Bollywood career as a choreographer. After making a name for herself with her pelvic-pumping jhatkas and matkas she became a director, and has so far made two mega successful films — Main Hoon Na and Om Shanti Om. Subsequently, she got married to a guy who edited one of her movies, and had triplets by him. And if all of it wasn't enough to caress her self-esteem, FK has now come up with a chat show on a private Indian TV channel titled Tere Mere Beech Mein.


To be honest, the show offers nothing new. It has the same mud-slinging-in-a-friendly-fashion feel to it, a la Koffee With Karan.


The first episode featured Salman Khan with his mother (44-year-old mama's boy) and had the same set of Q&A that ostensibly every showbizwallah asks other showbizwallahs, giving the impression to the viewer they couldn't get such private pieces of info from anywhere else.


The show that had Vivek Oberoi as guest was a tad watch-worthy, because the frail-looking lad in that episode admitted to the fact that there was a time when 'Vivek bashing' had become a trend in Bollywood. So, good things do happen in Bollywood!

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