'I hope to become the first wild card entry to win Bigg Boss'

Actress Nigaar Khan, elder sister of last year's Bigg Boss winner Gauahar Khan, is all set to enter the reality show as a wild-card entry.

Right before her grand entrance in the house, Nigaar said, "I am aware how hard it will be considering my sister won last season. I wish people wouldn't compare the two of us though. We are very close but Gauahar and I are different individuals. I might do things differently inside the Bigg Boss house."

The starlet says her arrival as a wild-card entry was very sudden.

"Until Monday last week I had no idea I'd be going in. I had just collected a trophy for my performance in my latest serial and had gone off for an extended holiday in Greece, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. When I got a call from the Bigg Boss people, I was in no mood to return to work."

It was the challenge of doing something unexplored that finally persuaded Nigaar to go for it.

"I am going in there with a clean slate. I haven't been watching this season of Bigg Boss regularly since I was away. So I'm going with no preconceived notions. I have no idea about the kind of contestants I'll encounter in there. I am ready to face anything," she said.

"I won't act in there. I am known as Nigaar Khan. Why would I want to be anyone else?"

But does she think she has a shot at the winning title, considering no wild card entry has won Bigg Boss before?

"I hope I can change that. I am not going in there thinking about wining the trophy. Right now I am just going to go with the flow," Nigaar explains.

Reacting to her sister's Bigg Boss stint, Gauahar said, "I wish her a fun and smooth journey in the house. I know she will be good. I'll be the happiest if she wins."

Photograph: Pradeep Bandekar