Kon Banega Karorpati is one of the most popular shows on Indian television. This program has been going on for the last 16 years. Amitabh Bhachan will be the anchor of this program. Suresh Gopi was the presenter of this program in Malayalam. Shah Rukh Khan was the host for only one season in Hindi. But Amitabh Bachchan was coming again from the next season. Amitabh Bachchan, the host of this show that pays crores to the contestants, but how many crores does he actually get? Let’s check the numbers.
Season 1 of this show was telecast in the year 2000. It was reported that he bought 28 lakh rupees to present this program. There is no exact information about his salary for the second and fourth seasons. It has already been said that Shahrukh was the host in the third season.
But when he arrived in the fifth season, the reports said that he was bought a huge reward. It is reported that he bought one crore rupees for a single episode. The fifth season took place in 2011.
The sixth and seventh seasons ran in 2012 and 2013. According to the reports, he bought around one and a half crore to two crore rupees per episode. The seventh season also had the distinction of being the season where the prize money for the contestants was increased from ₹ 1 crore to ₹ 7 crore. When it reached the eighth season, Bachchan reached the level of getting two crores per episode. By season 9, it had gone up to 2.6 crores. Season 10 aired in 2018. There are reports that he bought three crore rupees per episode to present it. According to reports, three and a half crores have been bought for one episode from season 11 to 13. There are also reports that he paid four to five crore rupees for the first episode of the fourteenth season in 2014. There are no exact reports of his remuneration for the upcoming sixteenth season, but an unofficial report says that he is getting up to 5 crore rupees per episode.
