Mathures Paul

Harsha Bhogle shifts focus from cricket to travelling. A new show on BBC World News takes him across India. On the run he meets Mathures Paul Taking a break from cricket, Harsha Bhogle recently travelled across India to shoot for a six-part travel show ~ Travel India ~ with a difference for BBC World News. He met strangers, whose lifestyle he had no clue about, whose language he could barely understand. Bhogle started his journey from the desolate Rann of Kutch in Gujarat and then made his way to Bikaner. Moving on, he reached the Golden Temple in Amritsar before travelling to Kashmir where visited Wagah. Moving to a different part of India, he visited Delhi and the holy city of Benares. Without stopping, he headed towards Bihar and then to West Bengal to meet the tribes of the Sunderbans, before travelling to Hyderabad and Nashik (to take a crash course in winemaking). Harsha Bhogle speaks to The Statesman. This is the first time you are hosting a travel show, a pleasant break from cr...

Sushmita Sen finds out cricketers can dance and they are talented enough to land roles in Bollywood. Over to Mathures Paul Wasim Akram came through as a thorough gentleman on Ek Khiladi Ek Hasina, the popular dance reality show on Colors. The show brings together two of India’s biggest passions ~ cricket and glamour, besides showcasing another side to Wasim Akram and Sushmita Sen, the judges. The show features Sreesanth (with Surveen Chawla), Harbhajan (with Mona Singh), Irfan Pathan (with Ashima Bhalla), Dinesh Karthik (with Nigar Khan), Nikhil Chopra (with Barkha Bisht) and Vinod Kambli (with Shama Sikander). Sushmita Sen speaks to The Statesman. Dance and cricket don’t go hand in hand. Having been in the industry for long, how difficult is it for individuals with two left feet to pick up dance steps? It’s hardly ever about getting the steps right. It’s more about the pressure one puts on his/her eyes watching somebody dance; it makes one petrified about dancing. The instant one lear...