Amitabh Bachchan made headlines when he decided to host Kaun BanegaCrorepati on Star Plus in early 2000. The game show went on to becomeone of the most watched of its time. Big B will soon be back on thesmall screen, this time to host Season 3 of the controversial realityshow Bigg Boss.
The fact that Bachchan is now also officially the highest paidpresenter on TV, is sure to add to the buzz surrounding his return.
Brought in as a replacement for Shilpa Shetty on Bigg Boss, the’Shahenshah’ of Bollywood will take home Rs 1.5 crore per episode.Multiply that by 84 episodes and what you get is a staggering Rs 126crore paycheque for Bachchan.
Other Bollywood superstars who have made a foray into television,did not rake in quite as much. While Paanchvi Pass Shah Rukh Khan wasreportedly paid Rs 1 crore per episode, Akshay Kumar too is believed tobe charging a similar sum per episode for Khatron Ke Khiladi. Despitehiking his fees from Rs 80 lakh per episode in Season 1 of Dus Ka Dumto Rs 1 crore in Season 2 of the show, Salman Khan also falls way shortof the Bachchan mark.
It’s a new high even for Big B himself. For Bigg Boss, he is beingpaid nearly twice of what he got for Kaun Banega Crorepati. But there’san important difference between then and now. When KBC happened, theBachchan brand was at its lowest ebb. Today the actor is among thecountry’s top five celebrity endorsers.
If Shilpa Shetty with her minor fan following and no films topromote could get Bigg Boss a 2.2 TRP, Bachchan with his enormous brandvalue and at least nine releases in the pipeline, could certainlybetter that. Or at least that’s what the show’s producers would behoping for.
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