Hindi Tv Show Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 9 - Cast & Crew

Vidya Balan is an award winning Bollywood actress who was born in Poothamkurussy, Puthur of Kerala. Her birthday is 1st of January in 1978. Her parents are Saraswathy and P. R Balan. Her elder sister is Priya Balan and her second cousin is Indian actress Priyamani. She studied at a High School in Mumbai and in 1995, at the age of sixteen, she played the role of Radhika in the first season of Ekta Kapoor's TV series named “Hum Paanch”. In her teenage, she was inspired by Indian actress Shabana Azmi and Madhuri Dixit. She studied Sociology in St. Xavier's College and completed Master's in Mumbai University. She has appeared in several TV commercials and also she has starred in music videos. Vidya has briefly studied Carnatic music, Bharatnatyam and Kathak. She was listed as the "India's hottest vegetarian" in polls conducted by PETA in 2011 and 2012. In 2003, she commenced her career in feature film industry with the Bengali movie “Bhalo Theko”. “Parineeta” (2005) was her foremost Hindi movie. There she played the role of Lalita. Parineeta was a box-office hit and Vidya received the Filmfare best actress award in 2006, for her performances in Parineeta. Later, she appeared in “Lage Raho Munna Bhai” (2006) co starred with Sanjay Dutt. In 2007, she appeared in romantic comedy film “Heyy Babyy”. Heyy Babyy is a remake of Hollywood film “Three Men and a Baby”. Vidya played the role of Isha Sahni and the movie became an overnight hit. She got the opportunity of working with director Aziz Mirza, in 2008. Aziz selected Vidya for the role of Priya, in “Kismat Konnection”. The victorious period of her career as a Hindi actress began in the year 2009. She appeared in five different successive films, including “Paa” (2009), “Ishqiya” (2010), “The Dirty Picture” (2011), Kahaani (2012). Her prominent acting skills in those roles recognized her in Hindi cinema. She has won the National Film Award for best actress (Dirty picture), five Filmfare Awards for Parineeta (2005), Paa (2009), The Dirty Picture (2011), and Kahaani (2012) and Ishqiya (2010), five Screen Awards and Padma Shri Award in 2014. Vidya Balan got married to Siddharth Roy Kapoor, the CEO of UTV Motion Pictures on 14th of December 2012 in Bandra, Mumbai.

Sawan Dutta is a versatile Mumbai based personality from India. She is a multi-talented person with qualities of Music composing, song writing, music direction, record production, Vocalist and Vlogger. She is prominent Blogger of original music videos, popularly known as, The Metronome. Dutta, born in the capital of India, New Delhi. She received early passion for music and started learning Harmonium at the age of three. She is a self-taught Hawaiian Guitar and even worked at All India Radio Company as a regular paid performer after the successful audition. Post her high school, Sawan attended School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India, in order to train in architect. In her college years, Sanam was a part of a music band called, Architypes. Later, she became a part of leading fusion rock band Indian Ocean, as back up vocalist and a keyboardist.

Yuvraj Singh is an Indian cricketer, born to a starry Punjabi family. He is the son of former Indian fast bowler Yograj Singh, who is also a Punjabi actor, and Shabnam Singh, who “gave birth to him again”, as Yuvraj fondly says. Yuvraj’s life is one that evokes inspiration and bleeds encouragement on various levels. After all, which normal human being can battle cancer while coming out top in a world championship, that too in an arduous game that is cricket? The answer is Yuvraj. Initially an aficionado of tennis and roller skating, Yuvraj was led into cricket by his father, who threw away the medal he had won in the National Under-14 Roller Skating Championship. He was also a child star and did short roles in Mehndi Sagna Di and Putt Sardara. Yuvraj’s career in cricket started from the Punjab U-16 team at the tender age of 13. His first class debut was in late 1997 against Orissa. He showed impressive skills as a batsman in the following years and was adjudged as the Player of the Tournament in the ICC Under-19 World Cup Championship in 1999-2000, where India won under the watchful captaincy of Mohammad Kaif.

Matthew Strachan was born on 11th December 1970 in London, England. He is a popular songwriter and composer. He started working at an early age. He attended the Dartington College of Arts and Goldsmith College at the University of London. He was supposed to write five songs for a BBC TV drama called Boogie Outlaws as his project. He then started working for television and radio. Then he concentrated on making music in Nashville, where he worked with popular artists like Tommy Kimmel and Don Henry. He then returned to England, where he got his next big projects. They were About Bill and Next Door’s Baby. He has given music for short films Mostly Dead, and Love is a four letter Word Worth seven points.

Keith Strachan is a renowned music composer and theater director who predominantly works for the English entertainment industry. Keith was born on 21 January 1944 in Consett, County Durham, England. He did his schooling at Blaydon Grammar School. Later, she studied Mathematics and Science at Queen Elizabeth College, London University. Keith then became a teacher at a boys' school, Sloane Grammar School, in Chelsea, London. But he left teaching to pursue his career in musical directing.

Arun Sheshkumar, in his illustrious career,  has done many successful shows. He possesses decades of experience in creative marketing and brand management. He joined hands with Pankita Sardani and the duo opened a production house named Pyramid Films. It is because of the unmatched caliber of Arun and Pankita that Pyramid Films have set up deep roots in the industry.

Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, India. Bachchan's father was a prestigious Hindi poet Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Sikh socialite. Being his parents’ first born, he has a junior male sibling resembling to his name Ajitabh. Bachchan went to Sherwood College before enlisting in Delhi University to complete his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) degree. He became a cargo dealer in Calcutta after completing his graduation. Amitabh Bachchan married to Jaya Bhaduri and has one son named Abhishek and one daughter named Shweta. Bachchan's father passed on in 2003 and his mother in 2007.

In 1969, Bachchan made his film debut in Saat Hindustani a film administered by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas which won him the National Film Award for Best Newcomer. By the early 1970s, Bachchan had collected fame in crowds as the "Angry Young Man" in an arrangement of successful Hindi gimmick movies. His featuring part in Zanjeer was especially instrumental in propelling him to fame as an action-movie film legend. Amitabh didn’t stopped gaining fame and popularity and soon he delivered another successful movie Anand in 1971. Anand was followed by movies like Reshma Aur Shera and Parwana in the same year.

Being family friend with Rajiv Gandhi, he got an opportunity to choose to run for seat in the Congress from the place where he grew up. He challenged Allahabad's seat of eighth Lok Sabha against H. N. Bahuguna, previous Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and won by one of the highest victory margins in history (68.2% of the vote). His political life, on the other hand, was fleeting in view of debates especially after Rajiv and he were embroiled in the now scandalous "Bofors" case alongside the U.K. based Hinduja Brothers.

In 1997, Bachchan endeavored to make his acting comeback with the film Mrityudata, produced by ABCL. However, the film was a disappointment both fiscally and basically. His vocation was spared with a successful film “Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998)”. In 2000, Bachchan facilitated the first season of “Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC)”. Likewise in that year Amitabh Bachchan showed up in Yash Chopra's film industry hit “Mohabbatein” directed by Aditya Chopra. Different hits emulated, with Bachchan showing up as a more established family patriarch in Ek Rishtaa: The Bond of Love (2001), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) and Baghban (2003). Bachchan is also well known for his profound, baritone voice. He has been a storyteller, a playback artist, and moderator for various projects.

Despite a couple of film industry disappointments in the 1990s and the 2000s ruined his career yet, Bachchan climbed his way back up to as a topnotch Bollywood actor, gaining Filmfare and International Film Awards for his work on movies like Baghban (2003), Khakee (2004) and Paa (2009). His hard work guaranteed his prosperity and now he is known as the "King of Bollywood".