Sunil Grover Talks About Virat, Dhoni, Kapil Dev, Gavaskar, Sachin & More
Sunil Grover has returned to regale us- this time on the web and TV both. In an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with SpotboyE.com, he talks about his new cricket show. He also talks about the game and his favourite players...
What kept you away for so long after quitting The Kapil Sharma Show (March
2017)?
Jio Dhan Dhana
Dhan is a light comic show, looks very exciting and fresh. everything is shot
live, it's cricket and it's on mobile where the world is today. And I am not
losing out on TV, because there is a deferred telecast of the Jio Show on
Colors a couple of hours later. So I said, why not?
Sunil Grover From Comedy Nights With Kapil
To answer your
question, well I was somehow not ready to come back on TV for some time. I
wanted to experiment with something new for a while.
Are you telling
me that you won't do comedy shows on TV again?
Nothing like
that. I will comeback to it. But not for now, not so soon.
Dhan Dhana Dhan Show By Sunil Grover
How is Dhan Dhana
Dhan going so far?
I am loving it. It's cricket and it's comedy. For the next two months our
nation will be hooked on cricket (IPL), so why not couple it with laughter?
Sachin Tendulkar
And we are doing
it live on Digital. That's a big challenge. You got to prep up. Plus there's
Kapil Dev who is hilarious and spontaneous. So I ought to react to his
one-liners rather quickly. And there are times when he is speaking seriously on
the game- and I have to keep quiet. It's quite a learning curve for me.
And there's
Virender Sehwag too...
Sehwag will join
us later this week.
Virendra Sehwag And Sunil Grover
How well-versed
are you with cricket?
Not much. I
follow only those matches which have India. But then, my character in Dhan
Dhana Dhan has hardly any knowledge about the game, so it doesn't need me
to deep-dive into the history of the sport.
But you are
speaking slightly similar to how you spoke when you played Dr Mashoor Gulati...
(Laughs) Maybe
because my professor character in Dhan Dhana Dhan is not much aware of cricket
like Dr Gulati was of medicine.
But I played for
my school as a medium-pacer. Let me tell you one interesting incident which
happened while I was playing for my school.
Sunil Grover
Sure...
I had to once face
a deadly fast bowler who was much older to me. I closed my eyes and hit
the ball. Immediately, I started running towards the square-leg umpire assuming
that I was taking a run. Thankfully, the ball crossed the boundary line. Else
who knows, I might have been run out (laughs).
Who are the
actors you have come across who are obsessed with cricket?
Gaurav Kapoor and
Ali Asgar.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni Virat Kholi Kapil Dev And Sunil Gavaskar
Which cricketers
are you fond of?
Tendulkar, Dhoni, Virat,
Kapil Dev, Gavaskar.
Dhoni or Virat?
That's a tough
question. It's like asking a child: Do you like Dad more or Mom? Dhoni has done
so much for the country. Ditto for Virat who is marvellous.
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