Mahuaa TV launches KBC in Bhojpuri and Bangla

Premiering on 6th June, Shatrughan Sinha will host the show in Bhojpuri; Saurav Ganguly to host Bangla version.

June 3, 2011:

The veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha is all set to host the Bhojpuri version of the popular game show Kaun Banega Crorepati on Mahuaa TV from June 6. At the other hand former captain of Team India Sourav Ganguly is all set to open a new innings as  host of 'Ke Hobey Banglar Kotipoti', the Bangla version of the popular international game show 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire', on Mahuaa Bangla. The show goes on air from Monday, June 6, 2011.

'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' a hit show in over 110 countries and known as Kaun Banega Crorepati in India, is for the first time being produced in the Bhojpuri and Bengali language and will be aired on Mahuaa TV and Mahuaa Bangla respectively. The 'Classic KBC' format will be on air, with contestants attempting 15 questions for a prize money of Rs 1 crore.

Across the world, this show is about ordinary people changing their lives for real and it is no exception in these two new avatars.  To add to the entertainment quotient there will be celebrity episodes. Bollywood star Govinda, renowned singer Udit Narayan, former finance minister Yashwant Sinha and the Dabangg girl Sonakshi Sinha have joined the celebrity band wagon. The participants and viewers across the length and breadth of the entire Bhojpuri speaking belt will share a wonderful moments with the most popular actor-politician of the region Shatrughan Sinha.

"Sonakshi will be on the hot seat before me. Audiences will finally get to see baap-beti together on the

small screen first" added the proud father Shatrughan Sinha.

Announcing the show, Yubaraj Bhattacharya, CEO, Mahuaa TV said, "We have lined up a pipeline of exciting content for our viewers – both Bhojpuri and Bengali and KBC will be the first of the block. We want to scale new heights in creating local language content and KBC is a taste of things to come. We are proud to collaborate with Siddharth Basu and Big Synergy in taking this pioneering step and producing a world class show in these two languages. “

“Mahuaa Bangla will bring in a new genre of programming with top quality shows beginning June 6^th. Two very good fiction shows that will start on the same day areEk Mutho Asha( 8pm) , Janmantar(8.30 pm) along with Ke Hobey Banglar Kotipoti ( 9pm). So we are raring to go with a variety of wholesome entertainment programs for our loyal viewers.” he added.

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