Nambala Ravi Kumar of Damanjodi in Koraput district has bagged Rs 25 lakh in television show Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) hosted by megastar Amitabh Bachchan.
He qualified for the Fastest Finger First round and played in the studio to bag his place on the prestigious ‘Hot Seat’, right in front of India’s angry young man.
Since the programme’s telecast in 2000, Ravi Kumar has burnt candles on both ends for the last 18 years to qualify for this popular quiz and game show telecast on Sony television.
He is a technician employed with Nalco and is a well-known KBC buff and Big B fan, according to his family, friends and colleagues.
He answered 13 questions correctly by using four lifelines and bowed out at the 14th question that would have won him Rs 50 lakh, even though he guessed the right answer, after quitting the game.
The 47-year-old Rayagada Autonomous College alumni expressed his admiration for the Shehshah of Bollywood and even produced a scrap book of ‘Supremo’, a comic book superhero inspired by Amitabh Bachchan that he had preserved since 1982!
He and his colleague and companion for the game, Trayalokya Nath Sahoo were seen on the show and heard deliberating in Odia, the probable answer to the 13th question that won the former Rs 25 lakhs eventually in the tenth edition of KBC.