I've never been nervous doing my job. It's like saying, when the first three scenes of my film run, I seem nervous and the rest (of the film) is okay.

I guess everyone very clearly, pointedly wanted to look at it (KBC). Even right now, KBC has not gone out of scrutiny (laughs); people are still scrutinising it. If you are going to scrutinise things, you are going to see what you believe is the reality.

I think a lot of people wanted to believe I was going to be nervous. That I was going to be disturbed about being compared, I'm going to be... it goes on and on and on. I think whoever felt I would be nervous found me nervous. Whoever thinks I am over the top will find me over the top. Whoever thinks I am sweet and nice will find me sweet and nice.

I'll tell you honestly, when you do a film or an enactment or a performance, the way a viewer sees it is, somewhere down the line, a projection of what the person feels. People sometimes want to be like the star. Sometimes, people feel the star is just like me.

I guess KBC was something which, of course, had been built up by the media as a case in point where I'll be nervous and I'll try to match up with the previous host or I will try to outdo... I get to hear people say they don't like me hugging; I get people who say they like me hugging.

The truth is -- I do what I enjoy doing on that show. It's very impromptu and it's very natural. Maybe in the 50th episode, I'll be nervous again (laughs). But I don't know... it will depend on how people see it.

Overall, most of the people have told me I smile a lot, so I think they are seeing the smile.

I wasn't nervous. Of course, there is always the stress of doing something new, whether it is a film or a television show or a live show. In the first few shows, you try to even out the rough edges. That's a professional thing. It's like what I do as an actor. And those edges and the technicalities, I think I will smoothen out.

I think I have been doing the job long enough not really to be a nervous wreck.