“I enjoy everything I do. I do that with every role I play. I am enjoying it so much that feel I am on a holiday. But don’t let my passion for cinema fool you, its hard work every step of the way,” says the charming Parsi shopkeeper turned photographer turned stage artist turned actor turned quiz show host. Phew!”

“I am an actor and while I enjoy doing the comedy roles, I am wary not to jump on the gravy train for after a while both the audience and I will get fed up of me doing the same thing over and over. I need to grow with every role I play, I owe it to my audiences to grow.”

Explaining the format of the show, Boman was quick to detail that the 240 participants selected after preliminary rounds were passionate about cinema and had lived it every minute of their lives. “I have always said while a film is made by the director, it is the audience which gives it life or death. And these are the people who have made a film a hit or a flop.”

He cites the instance of an elderly gentleman, coincidentally from Lucknow, who was grievously injured on a shoot but came back directly from hospital, arm in a sling, stitches on two sides of his face, using the famous words, ‘The show must go on!’