Sahil Khattar shares an interesting story on World Television Day

83 actor Sahil Khattar says there was a time when he used to enjoy watching Amitabh Bachchan-starrer-Coolie while eating.

“I used to watch Coolie while eating. I also liked Alibaba and Mowgli. I loved watching Cartoon Network, especially Tom and Jerry. There used to be a lot of serials as well like Hip Hip Hooray. Vishal (Malhotra), who acted in it, was a really good friend of mine. I loved to watch all the reality shows such as Popstars and Roadies. At first I wanted to participate in Roadies, but not now. Cable was already there during my time which was a good thing,” he said.

Ahead of World Television Day that is observed on November 21, he recalled the time when a TV set came to his household for the first time.

“This is a fond story that my mother tells me and sometimes she embarasses me by saying it in front of my friends. DD used to have a round logo in red colour. I was in Firozpur, Punjab, the place where I was born. I used to crawl that time and whenever I used to hear that Doordarshan tune, I used to crawl and go into the TV room. I used to love watching that moving round logo. This is my first fondest memory. VCR had come till that time,” he shared.

Now, he doesn’t watch TV daily as most of his content is consumed on the phone.

“Whenever I come back home, I watch TV which is mostly digital. There are some shows related to sports which come on cable that I watch. I guess on an average, I watch TV 7 hours a week. My TV consumption has reduced because of the increase in work,” said the actor, who was last seen in the web film 200.

Sahil loves anchoring, but he doesn’t get to anchor much because of his acting projects.

“But when it comes to television, I would love to do anchoring for all the shows such as Hunarbaaz and India’s Got Talent. I have already anchored for Dance India Dance. There is Nach Baliye, Khatron Ke Khiladi, Bigg Boss etc, so for me when it comes to big TV shows I can anchor anything and everything,” he said.

He would love to do a prank show as pranks are really close to his heart.

“If anchoring also had that much money, fame, and success just like acting, then I would have chosen anchoring. However, the top of the food chain in media industry is acting and that is why I am spending a lot of time on acting,” he said.