Life after KBC: Into the world of middle-class crorepatis
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent, Tavishi Paitandy Rastogi
Jul 28, 2014 07:48 AM IST
How much does happiness cost? You don’t need Kaun Banega Crorepati’s Computerji to tell you that the answer is Rs 1 crore. You just need to see what the TV quiz show’s winners have done with their lives since they won the prize money.
They locked their final answers and waited with bated breath for Computerji to tell them their fate. And then there was a star burst. Celebrity status. National respect. Pots of money.
It’s been 14 years since the TV quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) first held India spellbound. The show changed the way we saw television. Its host, Amitabh Bachchan, defined how Indian TV hosts should be. And the prize money – a dazzling Rs 1 crore 14 years ago, and a mindblowing Rs 5 crore now – changed the lives of its winners.
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