One couldn't help but ask Mandira what will she wear for the show.

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Mandira to put lots of clothes for Idol Junior

One couldn't help but ask Mandira what will she wear for the show. (BCCL/M Gurunath Prabhu)

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"The dress code is 'lots of clothes'," Mandira, who glamourised the age-old sari and blouse concept as host of Extraa Innings during the 2003 cricket World Cup, told IANS. (BCCL/Dinesh Bhatt)

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She broke into laughter, and added: "It will be more clothes than you've ever seen me in before." (BCCL/Pushpesh Dhingra)

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On a serious note, Mandira, now a mother of an almost two-year-old boy, has sported casual wear for the audition rounds. "Jeans, harem pants and jump-suits," she said, adding that for the theatre rounds, it may be "formal by one notch". (BCCL/Anuja Gupta)

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But for the gala rounds, which will see some of the top contenders, she will have to give in to "a little bit of formality". (BCCL/Durgesh Kumar Y)

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Mandira is co-hosting the show with Karan Wahi. Though she has hosted several reality shows, and live events over the years, this is the first time she has taken on a show involving children. (BCCL/Ashish Raje)

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She admits she isn't one to baby talk children, but says when one is working around children, "you have to simplify things a little bit". "You can't be complicated with them. There's a certain language you'd use with them," she added. (BCCL/Yogesh Chawda)

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