Peepingmoon.com recently got in a candid conversation with Shantanu Maheshwari who co-hosted the third season of India's Best Dramebaaz, which recently concluded.

Excerpts from the chat:

Hosting the third season of India's Best Dramebaaz was an amazing experience which will go a long way with me. I got to host my first ever reality show which was fun, lots of learning, meeting and working with an amazing team and such talented children.

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Getting to know and work with such amazingly talented kids was an awesome experience! Yes, I did bond with most of them really well! We would always fool around in between shots, play funny games which they would make up on the spot and enjoy ourselves! The kids really added to the happy environment on set with their innocence and cuteness which made it overall quite a fun experience to work with them! Talking about my favourite kids, well I had quite a  different and unique bond with each of them so I can't really name a favourite as they are all my favourites and always will be!

It was lovely working with such talented names from the fraternity and it was quite an awesome experience sharing the stage with them. Vivek sir was like an elder brother to me, always giving me beneficial advice on a lot of things and guiding me on things I needed help with. Omung sir is extremely professional and through the course of the show, I got to hear so much about his journey and struggles from which there was so much to actually take back!  There was honestly lots to learn from them both! It was also really nice working with Huma Quereshi. She is a very jovial person who always brought the fun element around on set and on the show.

My favourite hosting moment on the show which I will always cherish would be the first time I got on stage for our very first episode to host it! That in itself was a big step for me and I was very nervous, but eventually conquering that nervousness while delivering my first few lines will always be quite special for me!

I am going to miss everything about the show! Our awesome team, interacting with the show judges and my co-host Vignesh, all our backstage talks with the team, the kids, my entire hosting experience which I will always cherish and just the happy feel that our show environment created! Really going to miss it all and hoping to come back soon with another experience similar to this happy show that I was part of!