For people without any backing in the film industry, reality shows offer the best shot at Bollywood. Little wonder, then, that thousands of starry-eyed men and women, many of them from small towns, queue up for a chance to showcase their talent and make it big.

Sooraj Barjatya does the ‘clap’ for the mahurat shot of the movie Pyar hai To Kehdo Yes, with Piyush and the female winner Sabina Sheema, shortly after the show ended in 2007. The judges of the show that season were Anupam Kher, Madhur Bhandarkar and Pooja Bhatt