anupama gowda who is known for her beautiful and charming smile gave her first lead appearance in the popular serial akka and mesmerized the audience by performing dual characters the actress later entered the bigg boss season 5 as a contestant and managed to prove herself as a strong independent woman but not much know that she was also a participant of a reality show halli duniya which got aired quite some years backrecently she is seen hosting the first season of kannada music reality show kannada kogilethe actress has surely proved herself to be strong and ready to welcome anything that comes acrosswith the grand finale of kannada kogile round the corner here is what anupama gowda had to say regarding her journey throughout the season of kannada kogilewhat was your first reaction when you got the opportunity to host kannada kogilewhen they called me for this particular show they were not sure about me because they tried for someone else also later they called me and asked me to give it a try i dont know it just happened i had preparation from my end they thought i could pull it as my kannada was very good the decision was from the channels endi was also at home for 4 months at that time so i thought why not take up the opportunity and give it a tryhow did you prepare yourself for the showbefore entering the stage i was very nervous because it was my first time i was asked not to use english much but then i felt i should not get scared i did not want to let down the trust the channel had on me to be very frank i was struggling for quite some time i have cried i was unable to do anything i had to focus on my kannada initially i have struggled a lot but once i got the flow i gained confidence and gave my bestcostumes play an important role when you are a host how did you go about itfirst of all when im a host i never wanted to look like someone else i never wanted to follow anyone but give my own essence to it there is some pattern for the host i followed that i had my very own stylist who was always there to try something unique with me i was very particular regarding my appearance and look many at times i used to argue with her and stop talking also to her also i was that clear about my costumeshow was your relationship with the judges and the contestantsthis was my first experience as a host and i had zero knowledge about music i used to spend more time with the contestants before going to the stage i wanted to gain more information to make the show a bit more informative from my sidewhen it comes to the judges i was initially scared as i did not know how they would react to