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Rajdeep Sardesai’s brawl on the streets of New York City might have earned him a lot of criticism, but it has also won him an invitation to return to his alma-mater, NDTV, and host their long-running show, The Big Fight.
“People absolutely loved Rajdeep a decade ago when he hosted The Big Fight with so much conviction and charisma. Rajdeep became a star of news television because of that show. The show has never been the same ever since, with Vikram Chandra being as gentle as a feather and actually facilitating rational debate in these times of fish markets. The times have changed significantly now and unless we have Rajdeep back on, our dream of beating The Newshour in TRPs will remain a dream forever,” NDTV chief Dr.Prannoy Roy told The UnReal Times.
“In his new avatar, we expect Rajdeep to raise his hands and start beating up participants who offer views contrary to his. The ideal scenario would be Rajdeep talking about ethics, class, decency and then going on to hurl abuse at a panelist, the panelist returning the abuse and then Rajdeep charging ahead to beat the sh*t outta the panelist. With such a model, we plan to relaunch NDTV’s The Big Fight as ‘The Biggest Fight’ and effortlessly beat not just The Newshour, but also Roadies and Bigg Boss in terms of action,” Dr.Roy added.
India Today chief Aroon Purie has apparently mentioned that Rajdeep’s move again, this time from the IT group back to NDTV, won’t affect them as much. “Look yaar, I don’t care where he is, as long as he’s employed with some news channel and is doing journalism. No one would want the torment of Rajdeep publicizing his book and constantly spamming Twitter feeds with secondly updates on it all over again,” Purie is supposed to have said.
Unconfirmed reports also suggested that Viacom18 Motion Pictures are planning to release a sequel to Mary Kom with a mighty, powerful and punch-landing Rajdeep as the villain. “I am not going back to Network18 again! I am in talks with Sylvester Stallone to star in the next installment of The Expendables series and will likely take it up,” Rajdeep apparently said.