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Kon Hoeel Marathi Crorepati or Kon Honar Crorepati () is an Indian game show presented in
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on
ETV Marathi Colors Marathi (previously known as ETV Marathi) is an Indian Marathi language general entertainment channel owned by JioStar, a joint venture between Viacom18 and Disney India. It primarily telecasts programs such as serials, reality shows and ...
and later on
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. It is the official Indian Marathi adaptation of the
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-owned game show
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and its Hindi adaptation
Kaun Banega Crorepati ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'' (simply ''KBC''; English: ''Who Will Become a Crorepati'') is an Indian Hindi-language television game show. It is the official Hindi adaptation of the '' Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' franchise. It is presented ...
hosted by
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. The Marathi version of this show will be featuring Marathi actor
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as the anchor. The third season is being hosted by comedian
Swapnil Joshi Swapnil Joshi (Marathi pronunciation: ʋəpniːl d͡ʒoʃiː born 18 October 1977) is an Indian film and television actor, in Hindi and Marathi languages. At nine years old, he appeared in the Ramanand Sagar show '' Uttar Ramayan''. He has do ...
. Later the show mainly hosted by film director
Nagraj Manjule Nagraj Popatrao Manjule (born 24 August 1978) is an Indian film director, actor, producer, scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He works in Marathi cinema, and is best known for ''Sairat'' and ''Pistulya''—the latter for which he r ...
, the season also introduced ''Karamveer'' special episodes about people who did extraordinary work in social sector in the show. First ''Karamveer'' is being called on show was Adhik Kadam who worked for the children of Jammu and Kashmir since 1997 and helping communities with emergency medical services by providing Ambulances, doctors, paramedics but mostly love and respect.


Format

Before the main game, contestants had selected to the show will playing Fastest Finger First to qualify to the game. The host will ask a set of 15 questions, and the contestant who answers all of them correctly will be awarded a prize of ₹1,00,00,000 (1 crore). The questions each have a time limit (similar to anotger India version) with 30 seconds in first 5 questions, 45 second in next 5 question and no time limit in the 5 last questions. each successive correct response increases the assigned prize in a way that the 15th correct response awards 1 crore rupees. The game will have 3 lifelines, which are the following: * 50-50, where 2 incorrect options are removed * Phone A Friend, where a friend will assist * Audience Poll, where the audience will vote on the question asked to the contestant and select an option of their choice. The options with their corresponding votes will be graphically represented and the contestant will have to make a choice among those. * Code chat: for season 3 (replaced Audience poll) * Double dip: for season 3 (replaced 50:50) Selecting a wrong answer will lead to immediate termination and the contestant will have to leave with only the amount of prize assigned for the nearest 5th correct response (meaning if the contestant gets the 1st through 5th question wrong, he ends up with nothing, or if the contestant gets the 6th through 10th question wrong, then he ends up with only the prize for the 5th correct response, and so on and so forth so that if the contestant gets the 11th through 15th question wrong, then he ends up with only the prize for the 10th correct response). That said, the contestant will have the power to quit at any moment of the show to receive the current prize and avoid risking loss of prize for all correct responses past the nearest 5th correct response.


Seasons

The award prize in Season 1 was Rs. 1 crore. In Season 2, the award prize was increased to Rs. 2 crores. Season 3 was hosted by
Swapnil Joshi Swapnil Joshi (Marathi pronunciation: ʋəpniːl d͡ʒoʃiː born 18 October 1977) is an Indian film and television actor, in Hindi and Marathi languages. At nine years old, he appeared in the Ramanand Sagar show '' Uttar Ramayan''. He has do ...
. The show started in 6 May 2013 on
ETV Marathi Colors Marathi (previously known as ETV Marathi) is an Indian Marathi language general entertainment channel owned by JioStar, a joint venture between Viacom18 and Disney India. It primarily telecasts programs such as serials, reality shows and ...
. The 4th and 5th season aired on
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. The 4th season was hosted by Director
Nagraj Manjule Nagraj Popatrao Manjule (born 24 August 1978) is an Indian film director, actor, producer, scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He works in Marathi cinema, and is best known for ''Sairat'' and ''Pistulya''—the latter for which he r ...
. Seasons 1, 2 and 5 were hosted by
Sachin Khedekar Sachin Khedekar (born 14 May 1965) is an Indian actor and director known for his work in Hindi, Marathi and Telugu films. His well-known films include '' Kaksparsh'', '' Astitva'' and Shyam Benegal's '' Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgot ...
.


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''Kon Honar Crorepati''
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