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Now that Pooja Bedi's chat show 'Just Pooja', is off air, it’s dad Kabir's turn to don the telly host’s hat

Mumbai, Jan 7: Suave actor Kabir Bedi will soon be seen in his new telly avtaar - that of host on an upcoming TV show 'Director's Cut' starting on January 20.

In the show, Bedi will grill 13 top ranking directors including Aamir Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Nagesh Kukunoor about their craft.

“It was a challenge for me to probe into the success story of each eminent director and make them reveal the 'true picture'. There were some who knew me so well over the past two decades - like Shekhar Kapur. So the ice was already broken. But some of them were interacting with me for the first time, so I had to build up the comfort level,” discloses Kabir, whose guest on the first show is likely to be actor turned producer-director Aamir Khan.

Talking about grilling Aamir, he says, “It was mentally stimulating when I indulged in a free-wheeling conversation with Aamir. Despite his tight schedules he was in no rush and chatted for two-and-half hours chat with me for a 30-minute show!”

“The conversations are peppered with startling facts and well-researched info. It will also be interspersed with relevant movie-clips and flash-back footage. I realised grilling directors is quite thrilling and I am sure the home audiences will enjoy it too,' insists Kabir.
 
Ask him about his take on beti Pooja's passionate fling with Latin American dancing with 'Jhalak Dikhhlaa Jaa' and the recent 'Nach Baliye', and Kabir anwers “Initially I watched her perform with a sense of disbelief. But now it makes me feel so proud, because being acclaimed Odissi danseuse Protima Bedi's daughter, she has proved that dancing is in her blood.”