Who pays for KBC?
By V.N. Agarwal TV game show Kaun Banega Crorepati KBC compered by Amitabh Bachchaan has been going on Starplus at the prime time for the last nine weeks. So far, it is understood that the prize money distributed by the Starplus is around 1.60 crore. If everything goes well with the participants, the average 15 questions can be answered by six participants in a week of four days programme. On this basis over Rs 54 crore could have been possibly distributed. Thus the saving from prize money alone is over 50 crore in this period. This costing it is believed must be in the minds of the Starplus game show promoters. The participants get three lifelines also to help them to give the answers correctly. It is observed that great Amitabh Bachchans efforts are to provoke the participants to use these help lines at the early stages so that the participants exhaust with the help lines when the prize money gets double with every question. This appears to be on the pretext of performing his duty wh
