Amitabh Bachchan Recalls Shoojit Sircar’s Pivotal Role In ‘KBC’ As Director In 2000
The Indian auteur Shoojit Sircar, who is awaiting the release of his upcoming movie ‘I Want To Talk’, had directed the first season of the quiz based reality show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’. The director appeared on the latest episode of ‘KBC’, hosted by veteran Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan.
A clip from the episode shared by the makers shows Big B telling the audience that Shoojit was the one at the helm of the first season of his iconic show.
Big B said, “Let me tell you that when ‘KBC’ started in 2000, Shoojit was the director of the show”.
Shoojit said, “I was in the online direction, he was sitting in the control room. Siddharth Basu, whom we lovingly call Babu, requested me in Delhi to help him. And I came to Mumbai for the first time for ‘’KBC. I had never seen Mumbai before. And...