Awards & Winners

Siddhartha Basu

Date of Birth 28-December-1954
Place of Birth Kolkata
(India, West Bengal, Kolkata district)
Nationality India
Profession Television Producer, Television Director, Actor
Siddhartha Basu is an Indian television producer-director and quiz show host, most known as producer-director of shows like, Kaun Banega Crorepati, and Dus Ka Dum. He is Chairman and Managing Director of Big Synergy Media Ltd., established in 1988 as Synergy Media Ltd., which produces these shows. Starting in 1977 as a documentary film maker and directing TV programs, in 1985 he became a quiz show host with "Quiz Time" on the Doordarshan, today he is widely regarded as the father of television quiz shows in India.

Awards by Siddhartha Basu

Check all the awards nominated and won by Siddhartha Basu.

2012


Indian Telly Award for Best Director (non- fiction)
Honored for : Kaun Banega Crorepati
(Big Synergy Media Ltd is the production house and Sony TV is the channel.)

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Indian Telly Award for Best Director (non- fiction) Kaun Banega Crorepati

2005


ITA Award for Best Game/Quiz Show
Honored for : Kaun Banega Crorepati

2001


ITA Award for Best Game/Quiz Show
Honored for : Kaun Banega Crorepati