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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Kaun Banega Crorepati(KBC)


Kaun Banega Crorepati(KBC) is a television game show in India based on the UK game show ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' aired in 2000 by Star Plus TV and was hosted by Amitabh Bachchan, his first appearance in Indian television.


Harshvardhan Nawathe - 1st Winner Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 1 INR 1,00,00,000


KBC 2

On 5 August 2005, the show was restarted after a four-year hiatus, and renamed Kaun Banega Crorepati Dwitiya (Kaun Banega Crorepati the Second, or KBC2)in which the final prize amount was doubled to Two Crores. It was abruptly ended by Star Plus TV after the host Amitabh Bachchan fell ill in 2006. Amitabh Bachchan had shot 61 of the 85 episodes when he fell ill.


KBC 3 

The third season of the show began hosted by Shah Rukh Khan airing on January 22, 2007 and the show ended on April 19,2007


KBC 4

The fourth season (called KBC4) was hosted by Amitabh Bachchan and started on Oct 11, 2010, on Bachchan's 68th birthday and ended on Dec 09, 2010.

KBC 5

The fifth season started on August 15,2011 with the same format and ended on Nov 17, 2011.  

KBC 6

The Sixth season (called KBC 6) is hosted by Amitabh Bachchan and it commenced on Sep 07, 2012, and airs every Friday to Sunday at 8:30pm on Sony TV 



The immense popularity of Kaun Banega Crorepati has led to it being remade in several other Indian languages with different hosts -

Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi (English: You too can win One Crore) Tamil Hosted by Actor Suriya

Kannadada Kotyadhipathi(Karnataka's Crorepati)Kannada Hosted by Actor Puneeth Rajkumar

Ningalkkum Aakaam Kodeeshwaran (NAK) (English: You can also become a Crorepati) Malayalam Hosted by Actor Suresh Gopi

Ke Hobe Banglar Kotipoti(Who will become Bengal's Crorepati)Bengali Hosted by Sourav Ganguly

 

Ke Bani Crorepati(Who will be the Crorepati)Bojpuri Hosted by Shatrughan Sinha


Celebrities at the show
Shah Rukh and Katrina Kaif recently visited the sets of 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' to promote their film 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan'














Sonakshi Sinha and Ajay Devgn




Karan Johar with the entire star cast of 'Student Of The Year' 




Sridevi, who shared screen space with Big B in 1992 film 'Khuda Gawah' on  KBC
Vidya Balan made her appearance on KBC during the promotions of 'The Dirty Picture'




Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone appeared on KBC to promote their film 'Aarakshan'


Shahid Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor on KBC

Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh came to promote 'Ladies vs Ricky Bahl' on KBC




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