Mumbai: Surmeet Kaur, a 37-year-old housewife from Mumbai became the second contestant to win a whooping amount of Rs 5 crore on the sixth season of popular game show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’.
Earlier, Bihar’s Sushil Kumar had won Rs 5 crore in the fifth season of KBC and became the first contestant to grab the jackpot prize. A computer operator by profession, Sushil was drawing a monthly salary of Rs 6000 before winning the grand prize.
Later, he participated as a contestant in celebrity dance show ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’.
The concept of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’, hosted by Megastar Amitabh Bachchan since 2000, is based on UK’s ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’. It is the most watched game show in India today.
JPN/Bureau
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