Kaun Banega Crorepati
Kaun Banega Crorepati (Hindi: कौन बनेगा करोड़पति Kaun Banegā Karoṛpati; popularly known as KBC) is an Indian reality/game show based on the UK game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? which offers a maximum cash prize of £1 million. The show first aired in 2000 and was hosted by Amitabh Bachchan. This was the first appearance of Bachchan on Indian television. The show was popularly received in India[citation needed].
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 2 crore rupees. It was abruptly ended by STAR Plus after the host Amitabh Bachchan fell ill in 2006.[1] Mr Bachchan had shot 61 of the 85 episodes when he fell ill. He announced he would return after he recovered, but when his health prevented him filming the remaining 24 episodes, Star TV took the decision to axe it.
Star Television roped in Shahrukh Khan to host the third season of the show. Khan was at peak of his career then and was considered an ideal replacement for Amitabh Bachchan as the host of the show. The grand prize amount of 2 crore rupees (approx. $430,000 USD) was still used in KBC3. The third season of the show began airing on 22 January 2007. But all the hysteria receded soon after and its TRP went down. The third season did not receive good reviews from audiences. The show ended on 19 April 2007 with a special finale. The key sponsors of the third season were AirTel, Unit Trust of India (UTI Mutual Funds) and ITC Limited.
The fourth season (called KBC4) was hosted by Amitabh Bachchan and started on 11 October 2010, on Bachchan's 68th birthday. According to online news sources, over five million (50 Lakh) people participated in KBC 4 auditions.[2] The prize money was decreased to INR 1 crore, however a jackpot question for INR 5 crore (approx. USD 1 million) was added. The fourth season of the show was highly successful due to the return of former host Amitabh Bachhan.[3] The season ended on 9 December 2010. The fifth season started on 15 August 2011 on the Independence Day of India with the same format.
Rules
First of all, 2–3 months before the show starts, a question is asked on television and users can have to answer that question in order to come in that show, only a selected contestants are selected and come in the show. The contestants must undergo an initial round of "Fastest Finger First", in which the host introduces the ten contestants of the episode and asks them all the same question. The contestants must then arrange the answers in the order described in the question. The contestant that places the four options in the correct order in the fastest time gets the chance to go on the "hotseat".
All contestants must be over the age of 18 and a citizen of India in order to be eligible. The person must not be a former "Kaun Banega Crorepati" contestant and, as defined in the Income Tax Act, 1961, must also be a resident of India.
At the hotseat, the contestant is asked a series of general knowledge questions consistently rising in difficulty with every question. Each question has four options with only one correct answer. The contestant wins a certain amount of money with each correct answer, and may choose to give up and retain the money they have already won if they decide not to answer the currently shown question. The contestant is asked to pick a "Padao", which means that after a certain question, for example after Question 6, he will at least get that amount of money after answering that question rightly. Until that question, 45 seconds will be given to the contestant to answer, and after that question, there will be no time limit.
The money won after each question is roughly doubled from the previous amount won, exponentially increasing the amount won after each correct answer until the contestant reaches the final question, after which they win the maximum prize (currently 5 crores in KBC 4). The current sequence of prize amounts on KBC are as follows (Western digit grouping in parentheses
[edit] KBC 4
There will be only 13 questions[4] |INR 0 |- |4 |INR 40,000 |INR 10,000 |INR 20,000 |INR 10,000 |- |5 |INR 80,000 |INR 10,000 |INR 40,000 |INR 30,000 |- |6 |INR 1,60,000 (160,000) |INR 10,000 |INR 80,000 |INR 70,000 |- |7 |INR 3,20,000 (320,000) |INR 10,000 |INR 1,60,000 |INR 1,50,000 |- |8 |INR 6,40,000 (640,000) |INR 3,20,000 |INR 3,20,000 |INR 0 |- |9 |INR 12,50,000 (1,250,000) |INR 3,20,000 |INR 6,40,000 |INR 3,20,000 |- |10 |INR 25,00,000 (2,500,000) |INR 3,20,000 |INR 12,50,000 |INR 9,30,000 |- |11 |INR 50,00,000 (5,000,000) |INR 3,20,000 |INR 25,00,000 |INR 21,80,000 |- |12 |INR 1,00,00,000 (10,000,000) |INR 3,20,000 |INR 50,00,000 |INR 46,80,000 |- |13 |INR 5,00,00,000 (50,000,000) |INR 3,20,000 |INR 1,00,00,000 |INR 96,80,000 |}
[edit] KBC 5
The format of KBC 5 is same as KBC 4. The only difference is that the contestant will have to choose only one level at any value. The timer runs for 45 seconds until that value. a
[edit] Lifelines
A contestant can use a lifeline when he/she is undecided about which answer is correct. A lifeline can only be used once. The current lifelines in KBC4 are the same as KBC3 with the only difference being the "Fifty-Fifty" lifeline replaced by "Double Dip" and "Flip The Question" lifeline replaced by "Expert Advice".
Audience Poll: If the contestant uses this lifeline, it will result in the host repeating the question to the audience. The studio audience get 10 seconds to answer the question. Audience members use touch pads to designate what they believe the correct answer to be. After the audience have chosen their choices, the results are displayed to the contestant in percentages in bar-graph format and also shown on the monitors screens of the host and contestant, as well as the TV viewers.
Phone a Friend: If the contestant uses this lifeline, the contestant is allowed to call one of the three pre-arranged friends, who all have to provide their phone numbers in advance. The host usually starts off by talking to the contestant's friend and introduces him/her to the viewers. After the introduction, the host hands the phone call over to the contestant who then immediately has 30 seconds to ask and hope for a reply from their friend.
Ask an Expert: This lifeline allows the contestant to ask an expert via live face-to-face audio and video connection. The expert could be anyone from a celebrity to a previous Millionaire contestant. Ask the Expert is available throughout the game. There is no set time limit, and the contestant and expert are allowed to discuss the question.
Double Dip: This lifeline allows the contestant to make two guesses at a question. This lifeline is available after the contestant correctly answers the seventh question. A second incorrect answer results in a loss and the contestant's winnings dropping back down to the last milestone achieved. This lifeline differs from others in that – once the player has chosen to use this lifeline, he/she has to answer the question. There's no way the player can leave the seat without answering the question.
Former lifelines
Fifty-Fifty (50/50): If the contestant uses this lifeline, the host will ask the computer to randomly remove and eliminate two of the "wrong" answers. This will leave one right answer and one wrong answer, resulting in a situation of eliminating 50% of the choices as well as having a 50% chance of getting the answer right if the contestant is in a situation of making a guess. In 2010, 50/50 was replaced by Double Dip.
Flip the Question: The contestant earned this lifeline upon answering the fifth question. The computer replaced, at the contestant's request, one question with another of the same monetary value. Any lifelines used on the original question prior to the switching were not reinstated.
[edit] The fourth season
Amitabh Bachchan was roped in once again to host the fourth season in 2010. The show was shifted from Star Plus to Sony Television, but the faces behind the curtain will be the same such as Siddhartha Basu remains the director and creative head. The new logo designed for the fourth season incorporated the new Indian Rupee symbol, which was unveiled the same year. The phone lines for the fourth season opened on 2 August 2010 at 9 pm (IST).[5] Sony TV announced that the fourth season will go on air from 11 October 2010; which also happens to be Bachchan's birthday.
The Indian version adopted the clock format from the US version and is the fourth country's version to do (the others being Japan and the UK; although the US version no longer uses the clock), although the time limits were more similar to the UK version. There was a 30-second time limit for questions 1 and 2, and a 45 second time limit for questions 3–6, but questions 7–13 were not timed.[6][7]
The clock stops whenever a lifeline is used. There were four lifelines: Ask the Audience and Phone a Friend will make a return, along with the addition of two new lifelines Ask the Expert and Double Dip. The season ended on 9 December 2010.
[edit] The fifth season
Amitabh Bachchan was roped in again to host the fifth season of KBC in 2011. The season premièred on the eve of 64th Indian Independence Day. There is "Manchaha Padav" in the money tree in this season. 'Mrs. Tick Ticki' takes place of 'Ghadiyal Babu' in this season. One can also Participate in the "Ghar Baithe Jeeto Jackpot", in which one need to answer the question asked for "Ghar Baithe Jeeto Jackpot" during the episode through SMS and computer selects a random Winner. The Winner automatically wins Rs. 1 Lac (One Hundred Thousand Rupees) and get a chance to just go away or play for one another question to add up another Rs. 2 Lacs (Two Hunderd Thousand Rupees) to the total Prize money, if the answer is correct.
Kaun Banega Crorepati (Hindi: कौन बनेगा करोड़पति Kaun Banegā Karoṛpati; popularly known as KBC) is an Indian reality/game show based on the UK game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? which offers a maximum cash prize of £1 million. The show first aired in 2000 and was hosted by Amitabh Bachchan. This was the first appearance of Bachchan on Indian television. The show was popularly received in India[citation needed].
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 2 crore rupees. It was abruptly ended by STAR Plus after the host Amitabh Bachchan fell ill in 2006.[1] Mr Bachchan had shot 61 of the 85 episodes when he fell ill. He announced he would return after he recovered, but when his health prevented him filming the remaining 24 episodes, Star TV took the decision to axe it.
Star Television roped in Shahrukh Khan to host the third season of the show. Khan was at peak of his career then and was considered an ideal replacement for Amitabh Bachchan as the host of the show. The grand prize amount of 2 crore rupees (approx. $430,000 USD) was still used in KBC3. The third season of the show began airing on 22 January 2007. But all the hysteria receded soon after and its TRP went down. The third season did not receive good reviews from audiences. The show ended on 19 April 2007 with a special finale. The key sponsors of the third season were AirTel, Unit Trust of India (UTI Mutual Funds) and ITC Limited.
The fourth season (called KBC4) was hosted by Amitabh Bachchan and started on 11 October 2010, on Bachchan's 68th birthday. According to online news sources, over five million (50 Lakh) people participated in KBC 4 auditions.[2] The prize money was decreased to INR 1 crore, however a jackpot question for INR 5 crore (approx. USD 1 million) was added. The fourth season of the show was highly successful due to the return of former host Amitabh Bachhan.[3] The season ended on 9 December 2010. The fifth season started on 15 August 2011 on the Independence Day of India with the same format.
Rules
First of all, 2–3 months before the show starts, a question is asked on television and users can have to answer that question in order to come in that show, only a selected contestants are selected and come in the show. The contestants must undergo an initial round of "Fastest Finger First", in which the host introduces the ten contestants of the episode and asks them all the same question. The contestants must then arrange the answers in the order described in the question. The contestant that places the four options in the correct order in the fastest time gets the chance to go on the "hotseat".
All contestants must be over the age of 18 and a citizen of India in order to be eligible. The person must not be a former "Kaun Banega Crorepati" contestant and, as defined in the Income Tax Act, 1961, must also be a resident of India.
At the hotseat, the contestant is asked a series of general knowledge questions consistently rising in difficulty with every question. Each question has four options with only one correct answer. The contestant wins a certain amount of money with each correct answer, and may choose to give up and retain the money they have already won if they decide not to answer the currently shown question. The contestant is asked to pick a "Padao", which means that after a certain question, for example after Question 6, he will at least get that amount of money after answering that question rightly. Until that question, 45 seconds will be given to the contestant to answer, and after that question, there will be no time limit.
The money won after each question is roughly doubled from the previous amount won, exponentially increasing the amount won after each correct answer until the contestant reaches the final question, after which they win the maximum prize (currently 5 crores in KBC 4). The current sequence of prize amounts on KBC are as follows (Western digit grouping in parentheses
[edit] KBC 4
There will be only 13 questions[4] |INR 0 |- |4 |INR 40,000 |INR 10,000 |INR 20,000 |INR 10,000 |- |5 |INR 80,000 |INR 10,000 |INR 40,000 |INR 30,000 |- |6 |INR 1,60,000 (160,000) |INR 10,000 |INR 80,000 |INR 70,000 |- |7 |INR 3,20,000 (320,000) |INR 10,000 |INR 1,60,000 |INR 1,50,000 |- |8 |INR 6,40,000 (640,000) |INR 3,20,000 |INR 3,20,000 |INR 0 |- |9 |INR 12,50,000 (1,250,000) |INR 3,20,000 |INR 6,40,000 |INR 3,20,000 |- |10 |INR 25,00,000 (2,500,000) |INR 3,20,000 |INR 12,50,000 |INR 9,30,000 |- |11 |INR 50,00,000 (5,000,000) |INR 3,20,000 |INR 25,00,000 |INR 21,80,000 |- |12 |INR 1,00,00,000 (10,000,000) |INR 3,20,000 |INR 50,00,000 |INR 46,80,000 |- |13 |INR 5,00,00,000 (50,000,000) |INR 3,20,000 |INR 1,00,00,000 |INR 96,80,000 |}
[edit] KBC 5
The format of KBC 5 is same as KBC 4. The only difference is that the contestant will have to choose only one level at any value. The timer runs for 45 seconds until that value. a
[edit] Lifelines
A contestant can use a lifeline when he/she is undecided about which answer is correct. A lifeline can only be used once. The current lifelines in KBC4 are the same as KBC3 with the only difference being the "Fifty-Fifty" lifeline replaced by "Double Dip" and "Flip The Question" lifeline replaced by "Expert Advice".
Audience Poll: If the contestant uses this lifeline, it will result in the host repeating the question to the audience. The studio audience get 10 seconds to answer the question. Audience members use touch pads to designate what they believe the correct answer to be. After the audience have chosen their choices, the results are displayed to the contestant in percentages in bar-graph format and also shown on the monitors screens of the host and contestant, as well as the TV viewers.
Phone a Friend: If the contestant uses this lifeline, the contestant is allowed to call one of the three pre-arranged friends, who all have to provide their phone numbers in advance. The host usually starts off by talking to the contestant's friend and introduces him/her to the viewers. After the introduction, the host hands the phone call over to the contestant who then immediately has 30 seconds to ask and hope for a reply from their friend.
Ask an Expert: This lifeline allows the contestant to ask an expert via live face-to-face audio and video connection. The expert could be anyone from a celebrity to a previous Millionaire contestant. Ask the Expert is available throughout the game. There is no set time limit, and the contestant and expert are allowed to discuss the question.
Double Dip: This lifeline allows the contestant to make two guesses at a question. This lifeline is available after the contestant correctly answers the seventh question. A second incorrect answer results in a loss and the contestant's winnings dropping back down to the last milestone achieved. This lifeline differs from others in that – once the player has chosen to use this lifeline, he/she has to answer the question. There's no way the player can leave the seat without answering the question.
Former lifelines
Fifty-Fifty (50/50): If the contestant uses this lifeline, the host will ask the computer to randomly remove and eliminate two of the "wrong" answers. This will leave one right answer and one wrong answer, resulting in a situation of eliminating 50% of the choices as well as having a 50% chance of getting the answer right if the contestant is in a situation of making a guess. In 2010, 50/50 was replaced by Double Dip.
Flip the Question: The contestant earned this lifeline upon answering the fifth question. The computer replaced, at the contestant's request, one question with another of the same monetary value. Any lifelines used on the original question prior to the switching were not reinstated.
[edit] The fourth season
Amitabh Bachchan was roped in once again to host the fourth season in 2010. The show was shifted from Star Plus to Sony Television, but the faces behind the curtain will be the same such as Siddhartha Basu remains the director and creative head. The new logo designed for the fourth season incorporated the new Indian Rupee symbol, which was unveiled the same year. The phone lines for the fourth season opened on 2 August 2010 at 9 pm (IST).[5] Sony TV announced that the fourth season will go on air from 11 October 2010; which also happens to be Bachchan's birthday.
The Indian version adopted the clock format from the US version and is the fourth country's version to do (the others being Japan and the UK; although the US version no longer uses the clock), although the time limits were more similar to the UK version. There was a 30-second time limit for questions 1 and 2, and a 45 second time limit for questions 3–6, but questions 7–13 were not timed.[6][7]
The clock stops whenever a lifeline is used. There were four lifelines: Ask the Audience and Phone a Friend will make a return, along with the addition of two new lifelines Ask the Expert and Double Dip. The season ended on 9 December 2010.
[edit] The fifth season
Amitabh Bachchan was roped in again to host the fifth season of KBC in 2011. The season premièred on the eve of 64th Indian Independence Day. There is "Manchaha Padav" in the money tree in this season. 'Mrs. Tick Ticki' takes place of 'Ghadiyal Babu' in this season. One can also Participate in the "Ghar Baithe Jeeto Jackpot", in which one need to answer the question asked for "Ghar Baithe Jeeto Jackpot" during the episode through SMS and computer selects a random Winner. The Winner automatically wins Rs. 1 Lac (One Hundred Thousand Rupees) and get a chance to just go away or play for one another question to add up another Rs. 2 Lacs (Two Hunderd Thousand Rupees) to the total Prize money, if the answer is correct.
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