TALKING POINT with sharman joshi

What is your role on the show?
I’m the host of the show and my job is to welcome the participants,explain the rules and generally make them comfortable.

Why did you choose to make your debut with this show?
I’d always thought of flirting with the TV medium. And when the concept of Poker Face was explained to me,I found it very exciting. Also,the show is shot on a short-schedule format — which means,if it starts this Monday,it’ll wind up by the following Sunday. That helped me make up my mind.

Do you think you’ll ever enter the TV industry full-time?
That depends on the kind of offers I get. If it’s exciting,definitely. But right now,I haven’t been offered anything that interests me,besides Poker Face,and I certainly don’t see myself in a daily. I guess if we had the Hollywood tradition,where big stars make one or two episode cameos in TV shows,I’d take that up.

With regard to your movie roles,do you ever feel that you get typecast as a comic actor?
Not at all. I agree that many of my roles have been comic,but I’ve done a few serious role too. For instance,in Rang de Basanti,Life in a Metro and Sorry Bhai!. I admit,the last one didn’t do too well but that had a lot to do with the timing since it released the week of the Mumbai attacks.

You come from a family of performers. Is that partly why you turned to acting as well?
I’m acting because I just love it. It’s my passion and quite frankly,I don’t want to do anything else. I think this is the only job in the world where you are actually paid to have a blast.