Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu (2021 season)

This is the fifth season of Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu, Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. It's hosted by Jr NTR. Top prize is 1 Crore.

This season the show was attended by clock: to answer the questions 1-5 the contestant has 45 seconds, on questions 6-11 he has 60 seconds, and from 11th to 15th questions the clock was absent.

in this season, in FFF, in total 8 opponents instead of 10 appeared. All questions and options are duplicated in English.

Lifelines[]

In this season these lifelines used:

Episodes[]

Episode 1 (22 August 2021) - Curtain Raiser

Ram Charan (Rs. 80,000, continued)

Episode 2 (23 August 2021)

Ram Charan (Rs. 2,500,000)

Episode 3 (24 August 2021)

Swetha Lakkaraju (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 320,000)
Duggerogu Sunny (Rs. 10,000, continued)

Episode 4 (25 August 2021)

Duggerogu Sunny (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Attivilli Suryanarayana (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 20,000)

Episode 5 (26 August 2021)

Chundru Anuradha Chowdary (Rs. 1,250,000)

Episode 6 (30 August 2021)

Abhiram (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 1,250,000)

Episode 7 (31 August 2021)

Manish Maryada (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)

Episode 8 (1 September 2021)

Karishma (Rs. 160,000)
Santosh Naidu (Rs. 2,000, continued)

Episode 9 (2 September 2021)

Santosh Naidu (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 20,000)
K.S.S Gowthami (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 80,000)

Episode 10 (6 September 2021)

Simhachalam (Rs. 1,250,000, continued)

Episode 11 (7 September 2021)

Simhachalam (Rs. 1,250,000)
Mamatha (Rs. 160,000)

Episode 12 (8 September 2021)

Gopinath (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 1,250,000)
Jahnavi (Rs. 0, continued)

Episode 13 (9 September 2021)

Jahnavi (Rs. 1,250,000)

Episode 14 (13 September 2021)

Anjani Kumar (Rs. 640,000)

Episode 15 (14 September 2021)

Gnanaprasuna (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)

Episode 16 (15 September 2021)

Anand (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 20,000)
Suneetha (Rs. 40,000, continued)

Episode 17 (16 September 2021)

Suneetha (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Dayasagar (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 40,000)

Episode 18 (20 September 2021) - Celebrity Special

SS Rajamouli and Koratala Siva (Rs. 2,500,000)

Episode 19 (21 September 2021)

Manas Teja (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)

Episode 20 (22 September 2021)

Chiranjeevi (Rs. 640,000)

Episode 21 (23 September 2021)

Sreenivasa Rao (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 1,250,000)

Episode 22 (27 September 2021)

Ravindranath Tagore (Rs. 1,250,000, continued)

Episode 23 (28 September 2021)

Ravindranath Tagore (Rs. 1,250,000)
Shaik Khaja Nayab Rasool (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 320,000)

Episode 24 (29 September 2021)

Monisha (Rs. 640,000, continued)

Episode 25 (30 September 2021)

Monisha (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 1,250,000)
Ravi Prakash (Rs. 320,000, continued)

Episode 26 (4 October 2021)

Ravi Prakash (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Suraj (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 80,000)
Prathyusha (Rs. 0, continued)

Episode 27 (5 October 2021)

Prathyusha (Rs. 1,250,000, continued again)

Episode 28 (6 October 2021)

Prathyusha (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 5,000,000)
Nagarani (Rs. 80,000, continued)

Episode 29 (7 October 2021)

Nagarani (Rs. 640,000)
Hemalatha (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 40,000)

Episode 30 (11 October 2021)

Padmalatha (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 320,000)
Swapna (Rs. 3,000, continued)

Episode 31 (12 October 2021)

Swapna (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 1,250,000)
Akshitha (Rs. 3,000, continued)

Episode 32 (13 October 2021)

Akshitha (Rs. 640,000)

Episode 33 (14 October 2021) - Celebrity Special

Samantha Ruth Prabhu (Rs. 2,500,000)

Episode 34 (18 October 2021)

Sharmila (Rs. 640,000)

Episode 35 (19 October 2021)

Surendranath (Rs. 640,000, continued)

Episode 36 (20 October 2021)

Surendranath (Rs. 1,250,000)
Indraneel (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 80,000)

Episode 37 (21 October 2021)

Mahathi (Rs. 640,000)

Episode 38 (25 October 2021)

Srinivasa Rao (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 160,000)

Episode 39 (26 October 2021)

Dhanush Reddy (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 80,000)
Narasimha Rao (Rs. 5,000, continued)

Episode 40 (27 October 2021)

Narasimha Rao (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Achutha (Rs. 3,000, continued)

Episode 41 (28 October 2021)

Achutha (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 80,000)
Muralidhar (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 20,000)

Episode 42 (1 November 2021)

Ramya (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 160,000)
Chandra Sekar (Rs. 2,000, continued)

Episode 43 (2 November 2021)

Chandra Sekar (Rs. 0 - lost on Rs. 5,000)
Sai Chand (Rs. 0 - lost on Rs. 1,000)
Jagannadha Sarma (Rs. 80,000, continued)

Episode 44 (3 November 2021)

Jagannadha Sarma (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 160,000)
Maneesh (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)

Episode 45 (4 November 2021) - Diwali Special

Devi Sri Prasad and Ghantasala Sai Srinivas (Rs. 2,500,000)

Episode 46 (8 November 2021)

Umakanth (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 20,000)
Preritha (Rs. 20,000, continued)

Episode 47 (9 November 2021)

Preritha (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 40,000)
Gowthami (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)

Episode 48 (10 November 2021)

Venunath (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 320,000)

Episode 49 (11 November 2021)

Venkata Ravi (Rs. 160,000)

Episode 50 (15 November 2021)

Raja Ravindra (Rs. 1,250,000, continued)

Episode 51 (16 November 2021)

Raja Ravindra (Rs. 10,000,000)

Episode 52 (17 November 2021)

Chandrashekar (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Padmavathi (Rs. 0, continued)

Episode 53 (18 November 2021)

Padmavathi (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 80,000)
Goutham (Rs. 10,000, continued)

Episode 54 (22 November 2021)

Goutham (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Yashasvini (Rs. 10,000, continued)

Episode 55 (23 November 2021)

Yashasvini (Rs. 20,000)
Rajesh (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 80,000)
Krishna Harsha (Rs. 0 - lost on Rs. 10,000)

Episode 56 (24 November 2021)

Bhavani (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)

Episode 57 (25 November 2021)

Kancherla Phaneendra (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 320,000)
Tirumalasetty Sadhana Lakshmi Sravanthi (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 40,000)

Episode 58 (29 November 2021)

Shaik Khaja Vali (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 160,000)
Durga Prasad (Rs. 0 - lost on Rs. 10,000)

Episode 59 (30 November 2021)

Mounika (Rs. 640,000)

Episode 60 (1 December 2021)

Shivani (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)

Episode - (2 December 2021) - The Best of EMK

Trivia[]

In 10th and 26th episodes, all 8 opponents made right order.
Contestant Prathyusha become first to reach the penultimate question and to answer wrong. She lost Rs. 2,180,000.
43rd episode became very "unlucky" in Telugu version's history. Contestant Chandra Sekar is first in this season to go with nothing. He answered the 4th question wrong, using all 3 lifelines. But Sai Chand also walked away with nothing, answered the very 1st question wrong, not believing the majority of the audience (48%), which was right.
Raja Ravindra became first Top Prize winner in Telugu version's history.
Yashasvini took the smallest money in this season (Rs. 20,000).

Sources[]

Preceded by Season 4	Indian Series Season 5	Succeeded by None