Kaun Banega Crorepati 12 live updates: Amitabh Bachchan signs cheque for ₹640000 to first contestant

Kaun Banega Crorepati 12 live updates: Actor Amitabh Bachchan returned as host of the popular game show, KBC. Now in its 12th season, the show has introduced some new changes due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Actor Amitabh Bachchan returned as host of game show Kaun Banega Crorepati for its season 12 premiere on Monday. Amitabh has hosted all but one season of the show, but this time things are different.

Kaun Banega Crorepati 12 live updates: Amitabh Bachchan is back as host of KBC.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, several changes have been introduced. There will be no live audience, and therefore, no audience poll lifeline. Instead, a new lifeline called video a friend has been introduced. Amitabh began the show by reciting a poem about fighting against all odds, titled Wapas Aana Padta Hai.

Eight contestants will battle it out in the fastest finger first round, following which the winner will get to play for the ₹7 crore prize money on the socially distanced hot seat opposite Amitabh.

Stay tuned for LIVE updates from the Kaun Banega Crorepati season 12 premiere:

10:35 pm IST

The first episode ends

Sonu Kumar Gupta is still on the hot seat, having crossed the first benchmark. He will return to play on tomorrow.

10:20 pm IST

Sonu Kumar Gupta is the second contestant to pass the fastest finger first round

Sonu Kumar Gupta, a service technician from Uttar Pradesh, is the second contestant to sit across from Amitabh Bachchan on the hot seat.

10:15 pm IST

Aarti Jagtap quits with ₹640000

Aarti Jagtap quits with ₹640000. She was asked this question for ₹1250000: “Who invented the telescope?” The correct answer was Hans Lippershey.

10 pm IST

Aarti Jagtap runs out of lifelines

Aarti runs out of all lifelines, but crosses the ₹320000 mark. Amitabh signs a cheque, but keeps it with himself in the hope that she wins more. Aarti tells Amitabh that she wants to use the money for education -- both for herself and her siblings.

9:45 pm IST

Aarti Jagtap uses her third lifeline

Aarti chooses to call a friend, after getting confused with a question about Vyapam. After her friend also couldn’t give her a confirmed answer, Aarti picked the right option, and won, crossing the ₹80000 mark.

9:30 pm IST

Aarti Jagtap surges on

Aarti Jagtap uses her first lifeline -- flip the question -- but answers the replacement question correctly. The question was, “Which actor’s production company has a masala in its name,” and the correct answer was Shah Rukh Khan, whose company is called Red Chillies Entertainment.

9:20 pm IST

Amitabh Bachchan asks question related to Sushant Singh Rajput

The second question posed to Aarti was about Sushant Singh Rajput’s final film, Dil Bechara, in particular Sushant’s co-star in the film, Sanjana Sanghi.

9:10 pm IST

Aarti Jagtap wins fastest finger first round

Aarti Jagtap, an engineering student from Bhopal, is the season’s first contestant to sit across from Amitabh Bachchan on the hot seat. She tells Amitabh that she wants to become a civil servant. In her introductory video, Aarti tells the audience that the lockdown was especially hard on her family -- her mother is a cook and her father a plumber.

9 pm IST

Amitabh Bachchan welcomes audiences to the 20th year of Kaun Banega Crorepati

After reciting an empowering poem, Amitabh Bachchan in his introduction, spoke about the coronavirus pandemic, and how people are learning to survive. “We will keep fighting, until we can answer every setback with a comeback. If we were made to take two steps back, we will take four steps forward,” he said.

8:45 pm IST

Where to watch Kaun Banega Crorepati 12

Kaun Banega Crorepati 12 will premiere on September 28 at 9 pm, and will air Monday to Friday at 9 pm on Sony Entertainment Television. Sony LIV will air the show simultaneously, on the app on the website. The show will be available for free on Airtel TV and Jio TV.

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