Oh, she was very sweet, ya...

KBC video: Padmaja Limaye

What was it about her that worked so well?

What's happening is, in the first week nobody's seen me perform on television, so we had people who were coming with a (pre-conceived) idea of what KBC is going to be like.

It's quite an over-awesome area where people come and sit on the hot seat and have to answer questions with thousands of people looking at you. I think, after people started seeing me on television, the contestants who are coming are coming prepared with an attitude of having fun also.

I think she was the first among those who came in after having seen the earlier episodes. I remember her saying that 'what I like about your show is that you make everyone smile and laugh and I am going to make sure that I smile and laugh.'

And there are a lot of people now coming prepared with things to say to make it funny. I had one contestant who very sadly said, 'You know, I didn't play well, I don't feel bad about that, but I feel really bad that I could not entertain you because you entertained me so much on KBC.'

I think Padmaja onwards we've had people who've watched the show so they are little more at ease at least as far as their interaction with me is concerned. Her husband was wonderful. I found it very funny that she wanted to buy an elephant. That itself was quite a conversation point.

Her husband was very sweet; he was giving her all the wrong answers from there... that was really cute. An educated, really nice couple. You would like your children to be taught by her.