Kaun Banega Crorepati (2014 season)

Kaun Banega Maha Crorepati
Host	Amitabh Bachchan
Start Date	August 18, 2014
End Date	November 16, 2014
Number of Episodes	50
Number of Contestants	67
Number of Couples	11
Prize Winnings
₹70,000,000 Winners	1
₹10,000,000 Winners	1
₹5,000,000 Winners	2
₹2,500,000 Winners	9
₹1,250,000 Winners	11
₹640,000 Winners	7
₹320,000 Winners	15
₹160,000 Winners	3
₹10,000 Winners	7
Total Winnings	Rs. 136,080,000
Average Winnings Per Contestant	Rs. 2,031,045

This is the eighth season of Kaun Banega Crorepati, also Kaun Banega Maha Crorepati (Hindi: कौन बनेगा महा करोड़पति, English: Who Will Become a Mega Crorepati), Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and also as the second and final season under Super Millionaire format. It's hosted by Amitabh Bachchan.

Lifelines

It is a clock format, where three lifelines were used, in the past seasons and a new lifeline, in the season, were the following, the contestants, in this season, got all of these lifelines, from the beginning of the game.

• Audience Poll
• Phone a Friend
• Double Dip
• Three Wise Men

Episodes

• Episode 1 (18 August 2014)

Khushboo Singh (Rs. 640,000)
Madhubala (Rs. 10,000, continued)

• Episode 2 (19 August 2014)

Madhubala
(Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 1,250,000)
Rishi Kumar (Rs. 320,000, continued)

• Episode 3 (20 August 2014)

Rishi Kumar (Rs. 1,250,000)
Nidhi Srivastava
(Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Archana G. Prasad (Rs. 10,000, continued)

• Episode 4 (21 August 2014)

Archana G. Prasad (Rs. 640,000)

• Episode 5 (25 August 2014)

Rajeshkumar Gadhiya
(Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Archana Tirkey (Rs. 320,000, continued)

• Episode 6 (26 August 2014)

Archana Tirkey
(Rs. 5,000,000)
Maninder Pal Singh (Rs. 160,000)

• Episode 7 (27 August 2014)

Lal Bahadur Yadav
(Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 1,250,000)
Hemanta Mahapatra (Rs. 80,000, continued)

• Episode 8 (28 August 2014)

Hemanta Mahapatra (Rs. 1,250,000)
Barooru Lalitha (Rs. 10,000, continued)

• Episode 9 (1 September 2014)

Barooru Lalitha (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Mahendra Singh Kherde (Rs. 40,000, continued)

• Episode 10 (2 September 2014)

Mahendra Singh Kherde (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 160,000)
Dipti Dev (Rs. 1,250,000, continued)

• Episode 11 (3 September 2014)

Dipti Dev (Rs. 2,500,000)
Shivangi Maletia (Rs. 640,000, continued)

• Episode 12 (4 September 2014)

Usha Vishwakarma and Priyanka Chopra (Rs. 1,250,000)

• Episode 13 (8 September 2014)

Shivangi Maletia (Rs. 1,250,000)
Syed Murtuza Hashmi (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 40,000)
Sheela Gupta (Rs. 40,000, continued)

• Episode 14 (9 September 2014)

Sheela Gupta (Rs. 2,500,000)
Poonam Sethi (Rs. 40,000, continued)

• Episode 15 (10 September 2014)

Poonam Sethi (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Nikhil Gaur (Rs. 160,000, continued)

• Episode 16 (11 September 2014)

Nikhil Gaur (Rs. 640,000)
Kaoushalya Kumari (Rs. 20,000, continued)

• Episode 17 (15 September 2014)

Kaoushalya Kumari (Rs. 1,250,000)
Anter Singh (Rs. 5,000, continued)

• Episode 18 (16 September 2014)

Anter Singh (Rs. 2,500,000)
Asha Tandan (Rs. 5,000, continued)

• Episode 19 (17 September 2014)

Asha Tandan (Rs. 160,000)
Bhavesh Makka (Rs. 80,000, continued)

• Episode 20 (18 September 2014)

Bhavesh Makka (Rs. 640,000)
Shobha Pradeep Bhandari (Rs. 40,000, continued)

• Episode 21 (22 September 2014)

Shobha Pradeep Bhandari (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 160,000)
Aman Arora (Rs. 1,250,000, continued)

• Episode 22 (23 September 2014)

Aman Arora (Rs. 5,000,000)
Anju Khunte (Rs. 160,000, continued)

• Episode 23 (24 September 2014)

Anju Khunte (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 1,250,000)
Shivaji Satam and Dayanand Shetty (Rs. 640,000)

• Episode 24 (25 September 2014)

Neha and Smriti Kalra (Rs. 320,000)

• Episode 25 (29 September 2014) - Jodi Special 1

Chand Alam and Shadab Alam (Rs. 2,500,000, continued)

• Episode 26 (30 September 2014) - Jodi Special 2

Chand Alam and Shadab Alam (Rs. 2,500,000)
Aakanksha Sinha and Binay Kumar Sinha (Rs. 640,000, continued)

• Episode 27 (1 October 2014) - Jodi Special 3

Aakanksha Sinha and Binay Kumar Sinha (Rs. 2,500,000)
Arpit Sharma and Ankit Sharma (Rs. 320,000, continued)

• Episode 28 (2 October 2014) - Jodi Special 4

Arpit Sharma and Ankit Sharma (Rs. 2,500,000)
Rita Pande and Nidhi Pande (Rs. 80,000, continued)

• Episode 29 (6 October 2014) - Jodi Special 5

Rita Pande and Nidhi Pande (Rs. 1,250,000)
Shubham Sharma and Anurag Sharma (Rs. 20,000, continued)

• Episode 30 (7 October 2014) - Jodi Special 6

Shubham Sharma and Anurag Sharma (Rs. 1,250,000)
Achin Narula and Sarthak Narula (Rs. 20,000, continued)

• Episode 31 (8 October 2014) - Jodi Special 7

Achin Narula and Sarthak Narula (Rs. 10,000,000, continued again)

• Episode 32 (9 October 2014) - Jodi Special 8

Achin Narula and Sarthak Narula (Rs. 70,000,000)

• Episode 33 (13 October 2014)

Vijyendra Pratap Singh (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Harpreet Kaur (Rs. 0, continued)

• Episode 34 (14 October 2014)

Harpreet Kaur (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 2,500,000)
Sripriya Roy Chowdhuri (Rs. 0, continued)

• Episode 35 (15 October 2014)

Sripriya Roy Chowdhuri (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Usha Pande (Rs. 40,000, continued)

• Episode 36 (16 October 2014)

Usha Pande (Rs. 2,500,000)
Megha Patil (Rs. 20,000, continued)

• Episode 37 (20 October 2014)

Megha Patil (Rs. 10,000,000)

• Episode 38 (21 October 2014) - Diwali Special

Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukon (Rs. 20,000, Deepika replaced by Farah)
Shahrukh Khan and Farah Khan (Rs. 80,000, Farah replaced by Abhishek)
Shahrukh Khan and Abhishek Bachchan (Rs. 1,250,000)

• Episode 39 (22 October 2014)

Vivek Khare (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Nirankush Kumar (Rs. 10,000, continued)

• Episode 40 (23 October 2014)

Nirankush Kumar (Rs. 1,250,000)
Preeti Kumari (Rs. 20,000, continued)

• Episode 41 (27 October 2014)

Preeti Kumari (Rs. 1,250,000)
Vidya Shrivas (Rs. 20,000, continued)

• Episode 42 (28 October 2014)

Vidya Shrivas (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Madhu Krishnani (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 40,000)
Shubham Swaraj (Rs. 10,000, continued)

• Episode 43 (29 October 2014)

Shubham Swaraj (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 20,000)
Piyush Ratilal Jethva (Rs. 2,500,000, continued)

• Episode 44 (30 October 2014)

Praveen Kumar Yadav (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 20,000)
Verendra Kumar Singhal (Rs. 160,000)

• Episode 45 (3 November 2014)

Piyush Ratilal Jethva (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 5,000,000)
Om Prakash (Rs. 2,500,000, continued)

• Episode 46 (4 November 2014)

Om Prakash (Rs. 2,500,000)
Pankaj Joshi (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 320,000)
Watan Dubey (Rs. 5,000, continued)

• Episode 47 (5 November 2014)

Watan Dubey (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 1,250,000)
Anjana Majhi (Rs. 0, continued)

• Episode 48 (6 November 2014) - Celebrity Special

Waseem Raja and Anoop Soni (Rs. 2,500,000) 

• Episode 49 (9 November 2014) - Grand Finale (Part 1)

Anjana Majhi (Rs. 640,000)
Archana Kumari Nayak (Rs. 0, continued)

• Episode 50 (16 November 2014) - Grand Finale (Part 2)

Archana Kumari Nayak (Rs. 640,000)
Ranveer Singh and Govinda (Rs. 1,250,000)

Trivia

• In 13th episode, Syed Murtuza Hashmi is the 1,000th contestant to appear in the show.
• In 30th episode, in Shubham Sharma and Anurag Sharma's game (8th question), the host once also swapped places with the contestant. One of the brothers sat in the chair leading, and the presenter sat next to his brother.
• In 32nd episode, the biggest Top Prize in Indian version's history was won by Achin and Sarthak Narula. They used the "Double Dip" lifeline on the final question and guessed the answer on the first attempt.
• From the 37th episode the graphics changed. The font background changed from blue to brown, and the "final answer" background, changed from orange to yellow. The "right answer" background remained green.
• In 33rd episode, 100% of the audience voted for the correct answer.
• In 37th episode, Megha Patil become first contestant, who took 1 Crore.
• In 45th episode first FFF failed.
• In 48th episode, celebrities appeared, who sent their winnings to help the victims of the earthquake and floods in India.

Preceded by Season 7

Indian Series Season 8

Succeeded by Season 9