Do and Dare

Host of the show,actor Akshay Kumar,promised to take stunts to a whole new level of difficulty. “All the participants were blindfolded and were made to stand in a queue when Akshay came in,” he says.

Seth’s partner throughout the show was model Alesia Raut. “All the stunts were to be performed as a team,” he says. “In our first stunt,one of my legs was tied to a horse and the other to Alesia,who had to hit as many cones as she could while the horse dragged us along. This is when reality hit me. I had to compete with the other contestants,but the most difficult thing was the competition between my body and my mind. My body was in agony,as it was being dragged by the horse,but I had to concentrate on allowing Alesia to hit the cones,” he describes.

Seth also had a fall out with one of the participants on the show. “During the head-on stunt,another contestant,Saurabh Roy,and I were supposed to jump on cars and collect five flags each,in the second episode. Saurabh caught my leg and dragged me down when I was about to grab my last flag. We got disqualified because both of us had grabbed only four flags. Akshay (Kumar) had to intervene,as Saurabh and I had a heated argument. During the second do-or-die stunt,I won over Saurabh and he was asked to go home,” reveals Seth.

Seth is happy because people have started noticing him more after the broadcast of the initial episodes. “A dhobi who comes to the building next to mine came to me one morning and told me that he saw me on the first two episodes of the show. He was confused to see me near my home,since he had seen me on television the previous night. I had to explain to him that the show is not a live broadcast,” he says. Seth is also looking forward to making his debut in Bollywood soon. “Khatron ke Khiladi is one of the biggest reality shows on TV. I don’t want to go on a reality show spree now. I am waiting for bigger opportunities,” he says with hope.