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Life is beautiful, finds KBC winner's family
Neighbours have
suddenly become courteous, shopkeepers are eager to help and
long-forgotten friends have started calling again -- the family
members of Sushil Kumar, the first contestant to win Rs.5 crore (Rs.
50 million) on "Kaun
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New Delhi:
High on emotion, excitement and drama, popular game show "Kaun
Banega Crorepati 5" has become the highest rated non-fiction
programme on Indian television, registering 7.2 TVR and 8 TVR for
two episodes when 'aam admi' Sushil Kumar won the Rs.5 crore
jackpot.
Sushil Kumar, a lower middle-class computer operator from Bihar,
won the top prize and it was telecast in two parts - Nov 1 and Nov
2. Both episodes bagged the maximum eyeballs, breaking the
television rating (TVR) records.
According to an official statement, KBC 5, which went on air Aug
15, reached out to 25 million people on Nov 1 and 27 million
people Nov 2.
"We are ecstatic and humbled with the stupendous ratings on 'KBC'.
The success of Sushil Kumar is an emphatic endorsement of the fact
that the show is not just a game show, but a melting pot of
knowledge and aspirations of the 'aam aadmi' (common man)," said
Sneha Rajani, senior EVP and business head, Sony Entertainment
Television, in a statement.
"The numbers show that KBC this season has broken all barriers of
demography and geography and transformed lives of people all
across our great country.
"Leading the way in KBC, we have our very own legend Amitabh
Bachchan, who has changed the face of television, and our lives,
in many ways than one. He has proved beyond doubt that he is the
greatest superstar not just of the big screen but of the small
screen too. I thank the entire team for gives us this pathbreaking
season of KBC," she added.
The show's philosophy 'Koi insaan chhota nahi hota' has become
true as the contestants from the heartland of the country came,
played and took home big prizes.
After Sushil Kumar, another success story was written by Anil
Kumar Sinha from Patna, who won Rs.1 crore.
Before these two, Amrita Singh from Gwalior won Rs.50 lakh and the
show brought a ray of light in the life of Aparna Malikar, a
27-year-old widow from Vara-Kawatha in Yavatmal district, when she
sat on the hot seat and won Rs.640,000 and an additional Rs.50,000
from Bachchan himself.
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