Game / Quiz Shows

Millionaire Goes South

After the sustained success of Kaun Banega Crorepati in Hindi, both knowledge and drama stepped into higher gear with Big Synergy producing this flagship show in Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam for the leading STAR channels of the Southern region. Indisputably the biggest show produced in the region, in scale, participation, prize money and star value, the first season of these daily stripped shows in the south, splashed out with 240 episodes, 80 in each of the three languages.

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Jawab Kintey Chai

Jawab Kintey Chai is the Bengali version of the international format Sell Me the Answer hosted by the delightfully witty and popular Mir Afser Ali on Sananda TV. It is a quiz show with a twist, where, if players get stuck at any point they have the chance to shout out to an audience of "traders' for help, and negotiate with them to buy an answer.

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Kaun Banega Crorepati

The Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Kaun Banega Crorepati was first launched in the year 2000. Over the years, there have been seven seasons of the show. However, it was the first season that achieved unprecedented success as the highest rated non-fiction show ever in the history of Indian television.

To the delight of viewers, in 2010, BIG Synergy's Kaun Banega Crorepati brought back the iconic Amitabh Bachchan as host for the third time. With new lifelines, a ticking clock and Rs 5 crore to be won, the latest Kaun Banega Crorepati gave the common man yet another chance to make it big with their favourite Bollywood star.

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Sach ka Saamna

Sach ka Saamna is the Indian version of the explosive international format The Moment of Truth. This high stakes, high drama reality show tested a contestant's resolve in attempting to truthfully answer 21 questions about themselves for a chance to win one crore rupees.

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10 Ka Dum

An adaptation of the American format Power of 10, 10 ka Dum was launched on Indian television in June 2008. Marking the debut of quirky superstar Salman Khan as a TV host, 10 ka Dum tested the contestants' grasp of the nation's pulse.

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Sports Ka Superstar

A BIG Synergy format, Sports ka Superstar served as a precursor to the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in October 2010.

Hosted by the vivacious Mini Mathur, 200 quizzers qualified through an all-India selection test and took the roles of khiladis (players) on Sports ka Superstars, displaying their knowledge of sports and challenging their fellow competitors to a fight to the finish. The challengers stood to win up to Rs.1 crore prize money.

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The Tech Grandmasters

A Big Synergy indigenous format, THE TECH GRANDMASTERS is a brand new quiz show on technology. From the latest gadgets and gizmos to path breaking innovations, inventions, landmarks and personalities in the world of technology, the show seeks to establish who's the most tech savvy of them all.

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Khelo Jeeto Jiyo

A unique, branded lifestyle gameshow created by BIG Synergy, Khelo Jeeto Jiyo was launched with Godrej on STAR TV.

Hosted by the bright young Bollywood actress, Soha Ali Khan, Khelo Jeeto Jiyo was a unique game show, in which contestants could win a home and everything in it. Khelo Jeeto Jiyo also reaped in huge benefits for Godrej, with appreciably higher awareness of their lifestyle brand and range of products.

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Khelo Jeeto Jiyo – in the South

Khelo Jeeto Jiyo also aired in three south Indian languages – Tamil, Telugu and Kannada – across three channels of the Sun network, as a 13-episode series.

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Big Money

Big Money, based on the show format Family Links, was a game show where a family pooled in their knowledge and played together to win prizes at every level. Each family member represented a link in a chain. As long as the questions were answered correctly, the chain was kept together.

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Bollywood ka Boss

It’s a search for the numero uno of filmy gyaan. For all Hindi film fans this is a first time opportunity - to play for top honours and high stakes, and to watch the most mental of all filmy battles on Bollywood Ka Boss on FILMY, India's first-ever Bollywood quiz show.

Anchored by the inimitable and entertaining Boman Irani, a diehard Bollywood fan himself, this is a contest that will crown the one who knows the most about Hindi cinema. It’s a search where the winner takes home Rs 50 lakhs, and the prestigious crown of Bollywood ka Boss.

Every episode consists of 7 levels of quizzing & the top 2 contestants qualify to the next stage of the contest (Semi finals & Final).

Bollywood Ka Boss is on air, only on Sahara FILMY every Sunday at 9:00 PM.

Mum Tum Aur Hum

Each episode of Mum Tum Aur Hum will feature 2 mother-kid teams each who will play in three exciting & unique rounds, fighting it out to make it to the final round.

How well does the pair communicate with each other? How well do they know each other, or know what each other knows? How well do they team together and play together?

It's playful, heartwarming, funny, but it's also great fun to play and watch!

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Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hai

Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hai? is a studio-based game show hosted by Mr. Shah Rukh Khan in which succeeding contestants compete for a large sum of money by attempting to answer questions taken from primary school class materials. It's an enthralling show where in adults go back to school days and answer primary questions. The format outlined below is how the show works.

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India's Child Genius - The search for India's Smartest Kid

On Star World, a show that brought together the sharpest young minds between the age of ten and thirteen in the entire country, every week, a nationwide search to find India's Smartest Kids.

The show was hosted by Siddhartha Basu and produced by Synergy.

The contest provided a platform for the brightest pre-teen academic achievers in the country, who were tested not just on general knowledge, but also on verbal and non-verbal reasoning, maths, science, history, natural world, geography, mythology, literature, English language and spelling.

The aim of the contest was to showcase the brightest young minds in the country in a contest for the title of India's Child Genius. Other than the title, on offer was a share of prizes worth more than Rs. 50 lakhs.

University Challenge

University Challenge, telecast on BBC World, had a successful running over 2 series.

University Challenge was a prime time, elimination quiz show for top university college teams across India who vied for top honours in a head to head challenge with opponent college teams. An institution, University Challenge has been running on BBC, Britain for the last 40 years as the licensed version of the American game format, College Bowl.

Structure

Each episode of University Challenge featured 2 teams of 4 members each.

A typical question answer sequence comprised of a 'Starter' question, which was open to all 8 contestants. Whichever contestant buzzes in the answer to the 'Starter' question correctly, his/her team is asked 3 linked bonus questions, of a specified subject field. This sequence of question answers will be repeated as many numbers of times as the duration of the episode (i.e. 26 minutes) permits.

The series covered the gamut of sports, theatre, technology, industries, films, music, dance, science & medicine, television, advertising, art & literature, destinations, cuisine and many more areas.

Mastermind India

One black chair, a single spotlight, sustained interrogation and one winner. A show which has come to enjoy the reputation of being one of the most formidable and challenging quiz contests in the world.

Heartbeat

In a peaceful haven, sealed off from the outside world, you have to show what you're made of, and see whether the rest of the world will help.

There is a lot of money at stake: Rs. 25,00,000… 25 lakhs maybe even more!

And the available playing time?

That depends on your own heartbeat…

The exciting quiz game where only your Heartbeat counts . . . Heartbeat, an Endemol format was produced by Synergy for Star One.

Howzatt

An original Synergy format, produced for Tara Bangla. The format is based on the One Day International cricket format with lots of energy and emotions. This game show was produced in Bengali for an audience of West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh.

Kissa Kursi Ka

For the first time ever Members Of Parliament take part in a 14 part quiz series, as a curtain raiser to the general elections.