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10 Ka Dum 
Format Game show Created by Big Synergy Presented by Salman Khan Opening theme "10 Ka Dum" by Sajid-Wajid Country of origin India Language(s) Hindi No. of seasons 2 No. of episodes 51 Production Producer(s) Siddharth Basu Camera setup Multi-camera Running time Approx. 43 minutes per episode Broadcast Original channel Sony Entertainment Television (India) Picture format 480i (SDTV) Original run June 6, 2008 – October 17, 2009 External links Website 10 Ka Dum (Hindi for "Power of 10") is an Indian version of the popular international reality game show Power of 10, and airs on Sony Entertainment Television (India). The show is hosted by popular Bollywood actor Salman Khan. According to reports, the show helped Sony TV regain its third position in the Indian television ratings.[1]
Contents
Game rules
The Game consists of two different rounds:
1st Round: in the first round, 2 Contestants compete against each other in a best three-out-of-five format in which they are asked a 'Poll Question' and asked to provide a whole percentage number that most closely approximates the exact survey poll answer for the question. The contestant whose answers' are closest to the poll results for 3 out of 5 national survey questions wins the 'First-Round'. The Contestant who loses is then eliminated from the game.
2nd Round: the Contestant who wins the first-round plays the game to win up to Rs. 10,00,00,000/- (10 Crore Rupees) by trying to correctly approximate the survey's results within a narrowing percentage range for up to 4 poll questions. In this round, the contestant was given similar questions, and placed a range on a scale from 0% to 100% that included the correct answer (for example, if the answer was 53%, then the contestant's range must have included 53%). The size of the range decreased as the money values increased:- Rs.10,000 question: 40% range
- Rs.1,00,000 question: 30% range
- Rs.10,00,000 question: 20% range
- Rs.1,00,00,000 question: 10% range
- Rs.10,00,00,000 question: You have to pick a number
For the first 3 poll questions, the correct answer to the question was revealed once the contestant locked-in an answer by pulling down a lever. For the 4th question of Rs.1,00,00,000, the correct answer was revealed only-if the contestant's range missed the question. And if the question was answered correctly, the contestant was then given the chance to win Rs.10,00,00,000 by picking the exact percentage (rounded to the nearest 1%) out of that 10% range (11 choices in all). In addition, the Contestant has the opportunity to consult with his/her designated supporter before deciding whether to Lock-In a response at the Rs.10,00,00,000 prize level. Also, as with the lower prize levels, the Contestant may elect to take the walk-away prize for the Rs.10,00,00,000 (Ten Crore Rupees) prize level i.e. Rs. 10,00,000 (Ten Lakhs Rupees) and terminate the game prior to locking in a response. However, if the contestant decides to lock in a response, the response cannot be changed, and the Contestant no longer has the option of taking the walk-away prize of Rs.1,00,00,000 (One Crore Rupees). If the contestant locks in a response, the survey result for the poll question is than revealed. If the survey's result is exactly the same as the Contestant’s response, the Contestant is than awarded Rs.10,00,00,000 (Ten Crore Rupees). But, if the survey's result is not exactly the same as the Contestant’s response, the Contestant will be awarded Rs.10,00,000 (Ten Lakhs Rupees).
Prize-level (in Rupees)
- Note:::All prizes listed below include any taxes that may apply.
Question # Prize Level (in Rupees) Range (in %) Walk-Away Prize Prize If Wrong 1 10,000 40 1,000 100 2 1,00,000 30 10,000 1,000 3 10,00,000 20 1,00,000 10,000 4 1,00,00,000 10 10,00,000 1,00,000 5 10,00,00,000 1 1,00,00,000 10,00,000 Season 1
Celebrity Contestants Contestants who won 1 crore or 10 crores Contestants who won 1 crore or 10 crores and are celebrity Contestant Name Episode # Date Premiered
(2008)Winning Amount Eliminated Contestant
(in 1st Round)Akshata Tiwarekar 1 June 6 Rs.1,00,000 Wamika Ghai Nandini Biswas 2 June 7 Rs.1,00,000 Utkarsh Marwah Bawbin Kumar 2/3 June 7/June 13 Rs.10,00,000 Kamal Asif Zeeba Khan 3 June 13 Rs.10,000 Pooja Shah Yuvraj Singh 4 June 14 Rs.1,00,00,000 Harbhajan Singh Hiren Ambegaokar 5 June 20 Rs.1,00,000 Habib Mithiborwala Navin Rao 5/6 June 20/June 21 Rs.10,00,000 Saif Ullah Aditya Prabhu 6/7 June 21/June 27 Rs.1,00,000 Sourangsu Ghosh Manpreet Singh 7/8 June 27/July 28 Rs.1,00,000 Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Prerna Gandhi 8 June 28 Rs.10,00,000 Lalita Narayan Aamir Khan 9 July 4 Rs.1,00,00,000 Imran Khan Karishma Mehta 10 July 5 Rs.10,00,000 Monika Dutta Manish Bharadwaj 10/11 July 5/July 11 Rs.1,000 Rosy Singh Susanta Raut 11 July 11 Rs.1,000 Ronita Sharma Sonia 12 July 12 Rs.10,00,000 Manpreet Chadda 12/13 July 12/July 18 Rs.10,000 Gopikishan Mishra Subrata Kar 13/14 July 18/July 19 Rs.10,00,000 Ghanshyam Baman Jagjeet Singh 14 July 19 Rs.10,00,000 Bushra Shaikh Govinda 15 July 25 Rs.10,00,000 David Dhawan Ashish Pandey 16 July 26 Rs.10,00,000 Nusrat Patel Neetu Singh 16/17 July 26/August 1 Rs.100 Preeti Sharma Sanjay Ghatak 17 August 1 Rs.100 Priyanka Dey Kumud Bajaj 17/18 August 1/August 2 Rs.1,000 Neha Saxena Vishal Netke 18 August 2 Rs.10,00,000 Siddharth Tiwari Afsana Khan 19 August 8 Rs.10,000 Anoop Thakur Anita Kumari 19/20 August 8/August 9 Rs.10,00,000 Paresh Dhakaani Vipula Raina 20 August 9 Rs.1,00,00,000 Poonam Sharma Ranbir Kapoor 21 August 15 Rs.1,00,000 Deepika Padukone; also
Minissha Lamba (Helper)Akshay Kumar 22 August 16 Rs.1,00,000 Katrina Kaif Bobby Deol 23 August 22 Rs.1,00,000 Priyanka Chopra Raj Devi 24 August 23 Rs.1,00,000 Jaya Reddy Nikhil Vora 24/25 August 23/August 29 Rs.10,00,000 Chinta Mani Mishra Chirag Shah 25 August 29 Rs.10,000 Tumal Shinde Jeetendra 26 August 30 Rs.10,00,000 Tusshar Kapoor Piya Sharma 27 September 5 Rs.10,00,000 Tarunpreet Bedi Arbaaz Khan 28 September 6 Rs.1,00,000 Sohail Khan Maya Mehta 29 September 12 Rs.10,00,000 Atul Solanki Kailash Kher 30 September 13 None Anu Malik Shakeel Siddiqui 31
(Finale)September 14 Rs.10,000 Rakhi Sawant Rani Mukherji 31
(Finale)September 14 Rs.10,00,000 Lara Dutta Note:
- Kailash Kher didn't win any money because he was on the show to promote Indian Idol 4.
- Rani Mukherji actually won Rs.1,00,000 but Sony Television decided to give her Rs.10,00,000.
Unlucky Aamir
Aamir Khan appeared on the July 4th episode. The 1 Crore question he was asked was: What percentage of Indian men think they are more intelligent than women? He dialed in a range between 91% and 100%. The correct answer was in the range, thus he won 1 Crore. He quit the show and didn't gamble for 10 Crore, but dialed in a guess of 97%. The exact percentage to the question was indeed 97%, so he would've won the jackpot of 10 Crore had he played on.
Season 2
Celebrity Contestants Contestants who won 1 crore or 10 crores Contestants who won 1 crore or 10 crores and are celebrity Contestant Name Episode # Date Premiered
(2009)Winning Amount Eliminated Contestant Kareena Kapoor 1 May 30 Rs.10,00,000 Karishma Kapoor Daler Mehndi 2 June 6 Rs.10,00,000 Mika Singh Darsheel Safary 3 June 13 Rs.1,00,000 Tanay Chheda Katrina Kaif 4 June 20 Rs.10,00,000 Neil Nitin Mukesh Vijendra Kumar 5 June 27 Rs. 1,00,000 Malika Sherawat Sunny Deol 6 July 4 Rs. 1,00,000 Dharmendra Kangana Ranaut 7 July 11 Rs. 1,00,000 Pandit Janardan Shilpa Shetty 8 July 18 Rs. 1,00,000 Irfan Pathan Sunil Mishra 9 July 25 Rs. 10,000 Priyanka Shukla Farah Khan 10 August 1 Rs. 10,00,000 Deepika Padukone Sanjay Dutt 11 August 8 Rs. 10,00,000 Jackie Shroff Dutta Pangare (Dabba Wala) 12 August 15 Rs. 10,00,000 Meena Bhoir(Macchi Wali) Kapil Dev 13 August 22 Rs. 1,00,000 Navjot Singh Sidhu Ragini Khanna & Ratan Rajput 14 August 29 Rs. 10,00,000 Sara Khan & Tina Dutta Sunil Shetty 15 September 5 Rs.10,00,000 Javed Jaffrey & Aftab Shivdasani Rani Mukerjee 16 September 12 Rs. 1,00,000 Shahid Kapoor Boney Kapoor & Sri Devi 17 September 19 Rs. 1,00,000 Prabhu Deva & Ayesha Takia Azmi Ritesh Deshmukh 18 September 26 Rs. 10,00,000 Govinda & David Dhawan Shatrughan Sinha 19 October 3 Rs. 10,000 Hema Malini Himesh Reshammiya 20 October 10 Rs. 1,00,000 Sonal Sehgal & Shenaz Treasurywala Ajay Devgan 21 - Grand Finale October 17 Rs. 10,00,000 Fardeen Khan Note:The 'Grand Finale' of 10 Ka Dum Season 2 aired on October 17, 2009. Guests were Ajay Devgan and Fardeen Khan, promoting their upcoming film All The Best: Fun Begins; other guests were from Sony TV's popular shows: Indian Idol 1's winner Abhijeet Sawant, popular comedians Krushna Abhishek & Sudesh Lahiri from Comedy Circus, & cast of Sony Entertainment Television series C.I.D.
Ratings
The show was extremely popular and was at number one spot in ratings in India. It garnered an average TVR of 2.81 and a peak rating of 4.5, leaving behind Shahrukh Khan's Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tej hai? with an average rating of 1.37 TVR and a peak rating of 2.3 and Hrithik Roshan's Junoon — Kuch Kar Dikhane Ka on NDTV Imagine with an average TVR of 0.76 and a peak rating of 1.1[2]
Adaptation
This Show was an adapted version of:
Country Name Host Channel Premiere Language 
United StatesPower of 10 Drew Carey CBS August 7, 2007 English - There are many more adapted versions of this show. For info on those versions Click Here.
Awards
Indian Telly Awards 2008 and 2009
- Salman Khan won the Best Anchor Award for 10 Ka Dum in 2008 and 2009.
- 10 Ka Dum won Best Game Show Award in 2008 and 2009.
References
- ^ "Sony TV regains numero three position". BizAsia UK. 2008-08-25. http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsarchive/2008/08/sony_tv_regains.php. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
- ^ "Salman Khan revs up Sony's TRP ratings with Dus Ka Dum". Jun 10, 2008. http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2008-06-10/news/27691692_1_average-rating-tvr-amap.
External links
Sony Entertainment Television Drama Bade Achhe Lagte Hain • Kuch Toh Log Kahenge • Saas Bina SasuralCrime Reality Categories:- Sony Entertainment Television series
- Indian game shows
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