Model-actor Karishma Kotak, who hosted many pre-match shows at cricket matches, has revealed about how has been for women at such tournaments. Remembering the time she started hosting, Karishma said that in the start, the attention was for women to look stunning and ask a few questions. Karishma added that she 'was very scared that I shouldn’t look like a bimbo'. 

Karishma participated in the reality show Bigg Boss season 6 as a contender in 2012. She has hosted the television show called Extraaa Innings T20, a post-match analysis of Indian Premier League in 2013. She also presented the 2019 Cricket World Cup.

Speaking with a media person, Karishma said, “I feel that now it’s much better than when I started initially in 2011-12. But Mandira (Bedi) started before me. Shonali (Nagrani) started before me. So I felt like a few women had kind of set the way. They were there so it wasn’t new for another girl to be taken as an IPL host, but I think when I started it was just like, ‘Glamorous dikho, chaar sawal karo or nikal jaao (Look glamorous; ask a few questions and leave).’ For example, ‘What’s happening in the changing room?’ ‘How do you feel that you are playing with Dhoni?’ It used to be those basic questions and I was very scared that I shouldn’t look like a bimbo."

She also added, “I think women get stereotyped quite fast and I think it happens even in workplaces that we have to work extra hard to be like, ‘Oh, I’m not just a fine face. I know what I’m doing and I know what I’m speaking.’ So when I did feel that way a little bit, that is when I sat down in the commentator's box and I would listen to them commentating because that’s the way you learn. You get the inside details because you’re sitting down you’re seeing and what you see as a viewer and what you see as a commentator are two diverse things and I would just listen and I still do. So I think it’s much fine now. I did feel that way, which is why I felt I need to up my game and now it’s been about 10-11 years and 100 tournaments after."

Recently, Karishma is awaiting the release of her film IRaH, produced by Sam Bhattacharjee. The movie also features Rohit Roy, Ameet Chana, Fagun Thakrar and Rajesh Sharma and is based on the story of artificial intelligence.

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