Siddhartha Basu
Siddhartha Basu was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India on December 28th, 1954 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 69, Siddhartha Basu biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Siddhartha Basu's career in television began in 1977 as a documentary filmmaker with a company called TVNF after he completed his MA in English Literature from University of Delhi. Meanwhile, he also worked with All India Radio as an announcer and hosted programs on General Overseas Service, and Yuva Vani.
In 1985, he first hosted the inaugural series Quiz Time on Doordarshan. It was an inter-collegiate quiz show, still well remembered for the quality of quizzing and quizzers. Basu moved on to host and produce subsequent series of Quiz Time, Spectrum (TV series) - the 7 nation SAARC Quiz, The India Quiz, and The Beanstalk Quiz Summit (On Doordarshan), Mastermind India, University Challenge (2003) on BBC World, and India's Child Genius on STAR World.
Along with his wife, former India Today journalist Anita Kaul Basu, he formed the media company Synergy Communications Pvt. Ltd. in Delhi in 1988, which in due course became Synergy Adlabs, then BIG Synergy - after its tie-up with Reliance Mediaworks. Promoted by Siddhartha and Anita Kaul Basu, and Karun Prabhakaran, BIG Synergy built its reputation as a leader in the field of factual entertainment, starting off as one of the country's first independent television production houses.
In 2010, Big Synergy was named "Production House of the Year" at the Indian Television Awards.
In 2011, the BIG Synergy team won the "Indian of the Year – Entertainment" award of CNN-IBN.
Basu's biggest quiz show success came in the form of Kaun Banega Crorepati, first produced for STAR Plus in 2000. KBC, as the show is also known, is the licensed Indian version of the globally successful format Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan as its host. The second edition of the show KBC2 began airing in August 2005 and notched up the highest ever opening in the history of Indian television, going on to sustain its position among the most-watched programs in the country. The third series of Kaun Banega Crorepati was hosted by Shah Rukh Khan in 2007, while 5 subsequent seasons between 2010-2014 and again from 2017 to 2019 were once again hosted by Amitabh Bachchan. As of 2018, Siddhartha Basu has been associated with the show as a knowledge partner, together with DigiTOK (Tree of Knowledge Digital) and as a creative consultant.
The first 2 seasons of Sony's hit show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, the Indian version of BBC's celebrity dance show, Dancing with the Stars, was produced by BIG Synergy, as were the first 2 seasons of India's Got Talent, on Colors TV. Big Synergy has also produced other landmark shows such as Aap Ki Kachehri - Kiran Ke Saath, Sacch Ka Saamna and Dus Ka Dum, with Salman Khan as host, on Sony Entertainment Television.
Starting in 2017, Tree of Knowledge has produced 4 seasons of NewsWiz, a quiz show based on news and current affairs, with participation by high school students from all over the country, hosted by Rajdeep Sardesai, on India Today TV.