"It was tough to take a seat at the seat. Once I used to host that show, I always used to mention that it's not easy to sit down on that chair.
It was my first-hand experience to take a seat at the chair and hats off to those that came on my show and sat in front of me and faced those questions," the 37-year-old said here Thursday on the first look launch of the film.
The small screen's heartthrob, way to his popular show "Kahiin Toh Hoga", has mostly done off-beat films like "Aamir", "Shaitaan" and "Soundtrack".
"Table No. 21" also stars Paresh Rawal and Tena Desae and is slated for a Jan 4 release next year.
Only scripts with a soul and sensibility inspire him and good scripts make an actor's job much easier, he said.
"'Aamir' was an exquisite script, so is that this. So I LOVE great scripts. I LOVE scripts that have a soul, some roughly sensibility.
An actor's work becomes so much easier if the script is good, you aren't lost within the film...I also attempted 'Will You Marry Me', it didn't work," Rajeev said.
"But I FEEL it's more of the script. As Pareshji said, you'll understand what the film is set when you see it. I'M sure if you walk out of the cinema hall, you'll say it was a fair script and film," he added.
