Circuit is in demand. After his verbal fireworks on the big screen, Arshad Warsi will be seen as the host in two shows on two channels.

The big one is Sony’s winter show Bigg Boss, adapted from the hit international format Big Brother. Arshad has been signed to play the part of the Sutradhar on the show.

The omnipresent Bigg Boss, who sees and knows everything, now has someone to communicate his thoughts, wishes and commands in the form of Arshad. The funnyman is delighted with the role he has bagged for himself.

“I have seen the international show and loved it,” says Arshad. “I know I am going to enjoy watching the 13 celebrities, the inmates of the Bigg Boss house, who will be constantly under surveillance and dictated to by the Bigg Boss. I have mixed feelings about not being in the house though. On one hand, it would have been fun and challenging to survive in that house while on the other, it’s going to be really tough living there.”

The celeb list of 13 will be revealed only when the show goes on air, sometime in November.

Before that you can catch Arshad as the host of Filmy Stock Exchange on Filmy. The game show gives Bollywood fans an opportunity to “own” their favourite stars. The game has started on October 1, and can be played on the mobile and Internet.

“We have tied up with msn.com and listed India’s top 30 filmstars on the show’s site,” Shailesh Kapoor, marketing head of Filmy, told The Telegraph from Mumbai. “On registration, one gets 1000 Filmy Rupees (FRs) to create one’s portfolio. The stock prices change every hour on the basis of trading trends, box-office performance and industry news and gossip.”

To master this virtual stock market, one has to know — for instance, one investing in Shah Rukh Khan has to know he has no releases after Don till end-2007.

Gossip counts only if it affects an actor’s career. “If Aishwarya marries Abhishek, that should not affect her stocks unless she announces retirement or reduction of work,” Kapoor explains.

There will be no one winner, though. A player can redeem one’s earned points for exciting prizes, from cars to cellphones.

And who better than Munnabhai’s Man Everyday to guide you through the whole process.