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{{Infobox company
| name = Big Synergy Media Limited (BSML)
| logo = Logo of BIG Synergy.jpg
| parent = [[Reliance Big Entertainment]]
| foundation = 24 February 1988
| location_country = Oshiwara, Andheri (West), [[Mumbai]]
| key_people = Rajiv Bakshi (CEO)
| num_employees =
| industry = Entertainment
| products = Television programs (fiction & non-fiction), web series, short films
| revenue =
| operating_income =
| homepage =
}}

'''Big Synergy Media Limited''' is a television production company headed by Chief Executive Officer Rajiv Bakshi. It started as one of the country's first few independent television outfits in 1988. BIG Synergy is an acknowledged leader in factual entertainment in India. It has produced some of India's most popular and critically acclaimed factual entertainment shows.

The company is famous for producing ''[[Kaun Banega Crorepati]]'', India's biggest television quiz show, hosted by [[Amitabh Bachchan]].

==History==
Founded in 1988, the production house has been allied with [[Reliance MediaWorks]] since 2007. Reliance Mediaworks is a division of the BIG Entertainment conglomerate of the [[Anil Dhirubhai Ambani]] Group. In 2016, the company formed a strategic alliance with [[Phantom Films]] to foray into the scripted segment of TV and digital media. Working out of Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Trivandrum, Bangalore and Kolkata, BIG Synergy has produced TV shows in nine languages.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}

Over the years, BIG Synergy has delivered original non-fiction shows such as ''Quiz Time'', ''India Quiz'', ''A Question of Answers'', ''Manch Masala'', ''Style Today'', ''Eureka'', ''3-2-1'', ''Mum Tum aur Hum'', ''Bollywood Ka Boss'', ''Khelo Jeeto Jiyo'' and ''Sports Ka Superstar'', as well as international formats such as ''Mastermind'', ''University Challenge'', ''Kamzor Kadi Kaun'', ''India's Child Genius'', ''Bluffmaster'', ''Heartbeat'', ''Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain'', ''10 Ka Dum'', ''India's Got Talent'', ''Aap Ki Kachehri'', ''Sach Ka Saamna'' and ''[[Kaun Banega Crorepati]]'', along with ''India's Best Jobs'' for the [[Discovery Channel]] and ''The GoodHomes Show'' for [[TLC (TV channel)|TLC]].{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}

BIG Synergy is expanding its offerings into the fiction segment of TV and digital media with popular web-series like Yay kay hua Bro with [[Voot]], ''[[Kaushiki]]'' with VuClip, ''[[Bose: Dead/Alive]]'' with [[ALT Balaji]], and a few shows under development with [[Amazon.com|Amazon]] and [[Netflix]].{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}

==New shows (2017–2018)==

* ''[[The GoodHomes Show]]'' with [[World Wide Media|WWM]], to be aired on [[TLC (TV channel)|TLC]]; hosted by [[Ronita Italia Dhanu]]
* ''[[Kaushiki]]'' with [[VuClip]], [[Viu (streaming media)|Viu]], directed by [[Suparn Verma]]; creative producer [[Namit Sharma]]; starring [[Rannvijay Singh]]<ref>https://www.thedigitalhash.com/big-synergy-produce-web-series/</ref>
* ''[[Bose: Dead/Alive]]'' with [[ALTBalaji|Alt Digital Media Entertainment]]; directed by [[Pulkit]] and [[Hansal Mehta]]; starring [[Rajkumar Rao]]; produced By [[Ekta Kapoor]]<ref name="televisionpost.com">{{Cite web|date=2020-06-29|title=Big Synergy plans to produce 200–300 hours of content for TV, digital in 2018 – TelevisionPost: Latest News, India’s Television, Cable, DTH, TRAI|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629031229/https://www.televisionpost.com/big-synergy-plans-to-produce-200-300-hours-of-content-for-tv-digital-in-2018/|access-date=2020-08-14|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>
* ''Yo kay Hua Bro'' with [[Voot]] Originals; creative producer [[Namit Sharma]]; starring [[Shamita Shetty]], [[Aparshakti Khurana]]<ref name="televisionpost.com"/>
* ''India's Best Jobs-Season 1 & 2'' with [[Discovery Channel]], creative producer Namit Sharma; host [[Meiyang Chang]]<ref>https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/302225</ref>
* ''News Wiz Quiz Show'' with ''[[India Today]]'', hosted by [[Rajdeep Sardesai]]<ref>https://www.adgully.com/india-is-a-digitally-robust-country-indranil-chakraborty-75056.html</ref>
* ''People's Choice'' in Malayalam language, aired on [[Asianet (TV channel)|Asianet]] Channel<ref>http://www.televisionpost.com/news/big-synergy-gears-up-for-ambitious-digital-content-play/{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Shows==
===Web series===
{| class="sortable wikitable" class="wikitable" style="width:99%;"
! Year !! Title !! Genre !! Cast !! Episodes !! Platform
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| 2017
| ''[[Yo Ke Hua Bro]]''
| Comedy series
| [[Aparshakti Khurana]], [[Gaurav Pandey]], [[Ridhima Pandit]], [[Sumeet Vyas]], [[Shamita Shetty]]
| 5
| [[Voot]] ([[Viacom18]])
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| 2017
| ''[[Bose: Dead/Alive]]''
| Indian historical period drama
| [[Rajkumar Rao]], [[Naveen Kasturia]], [[Patralekha Paul]]
| 9
| [[ALTBalaji]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| 2018
| ''[[Kaushiki (web series)|Kaushiki]] ''
| Drama
| [[Rannvijay Singh]]
| 13
| [[Viu (streaming media)|Viu]]
|}

===Fiction shows===
{| class="sortable wikitable" class="wikitable" style="width:99%;"
|-
! Year !! TV series !! Status !! Network
|-
| 2007 || ''[[Jiya Jale]]'' || rowspan="4"|Off-air || [[9X (TV channel)|9X]]
|-
| rowspan="2"|2008 || ''[[Champ (TV series)|Champ]]'' || [[Bindass]]
|-
|| ''[[Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain]]'' ||[[NDTV Imagine]]
|-
| 2012 || ''[[Lakhon Mein Ek (TV series)|Lakhon Mein Ek]]'' || [[Star Plus]]
|}

===Non-fiction shows===

{| class="sortable wikitable" class="wikitable" style="width:99%;"
|-
! Year !! TV series !! Network!!Details !!Host!!Language
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Kaun Banega Crorepati]]'' (Season 1)
| rowspan="2"|[[Star Plus]]
| rowspan="2"|[[Quiz show]]
| rowspan="2"|[[Amitabh Bachchan]]
| rowspan="26"|[[Hindi]]
|-
| 2005
| ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'' (Season 2)
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa#Season 1|Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa]]'' (Season 1)
| rowspan="2"|[[Sony TV]]
| rowspan="2"|Dance show
| [[Archana Puran Singh]] & [[Parmeet Sethi]]
|-
| rowspan="2"|2007
| ''Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa'' (Season 2)
| [[Mona Singh]] & [[Rohit Roy]]
|-
| ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'' (Season 3)
| rowspan="2"|Star Plus
| rowspan="3"|Quiz show
| rowspan="2"|[[Shah Rukh Khan|Shahrukh Khan]]
|-
| rowspan="3"|2008
| ''[[Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?]]''
|-
| ''[[10 Ka Dum#Season 1|10 Ka Dum]]'' (Season 1)
| Sony TV
| [[Salman Khan]]
|-
| ''[[Aap Ki Kachehri#Season 1|Aap Ki Kachehri]]'' (Season 1)
| Star Plus
| [[Reality show]] based on social issues
| [[Kiran Bedi]]
|-
| rowspan="5"|2009
| ''[[India's Got Talent]]'' (Season 1)
| [[Colors TV]]
| Reality show
| [[Nikhil Chinapa]] & [[Ayushmann Khurrana]]
|-
| ''10 Ka Dum'' (Season 2)
| Sony TV
| Quiz show
| Salman Khan
|-
| ''Khelo Jeeto Jiyo''
| rowspan="3"|Star Plus
| Game/quiz show
| [[Soha Ali Khan]]
|-
| ''Aap Ki Kachehri'' (Season 2)
| Reality show based on social issues
| Kiran Bedi
|-
| ''[[Sacch Ka Saamna]]'' (Season 1)
|Reality show Game/quiz show
| [[Rajeev Khandelwal]]
|-
| rowspan="2"|2010
| ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'' (Season 4)
| Sony TV
| Quiz show
| Amitabh Bachchan
|-
| ''India's Got Talent'' (season 2)
| Colors TV
| Reality show
| Nikhil Chinapa & Ayushmann Khurrana
|-
| rowspan="3"|2011
| ''Aap Ki Kachehri'' (Season 3)
| Star Plus
| Reality show based on social issues
| Kiran Bedi
|-
| ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'' (Season 5)
| Sony TV
| Quiz show
| Amitabh Bachchan
|-
| ''Sach Ka Saamna'' (Season 2)
| [[Life OK]]
| Reality show Game/quiz show
| Rajeev Khandelwal
|-
| 2012
| ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'' (Season 6)
| rowspan="8"|Sony TV
| rowspan="8"|Quiz show
| rowspan="4"|Amitabh Bachchan
|-
| 2013
| ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'' (Season 7)
|-
| 2014
| ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'' (Season 8)
|-
| 2017
| ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'' (Season 9)
|-
| rowspan="2"|2018
| ''10 Ka Dum'' (Season 3)
| Salman Khan
|-
| ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'' (Season 10)
| rowspan="3"|Amitabh Bachchan
|-
| 2019
| ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'' (season 11)
|-
| 2020
| ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'' (season 12)

|}

===Regional shows===

{| class="sortable wikitable" class="wikitable" style="width:99%;"
|-
! Year !! TV series !! Network!!Details !!Host!!Language
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2009
| ''Vazhvai Mattralaam Vaanga''
| [[Sun TV (India)|Sun TV]]
| Tamil version of ''Khelo Jeeto Jiyo''
| Vijaylakshmi
|[[Tamil language|Tamil]]
|-
| ''Adandi Life Marchukondi''
| [[Gemini TV]]
| Telugu version of ''Khelo Jeeto Jiyo''
|[[Veda Sastry|Archana Shastri]]
|[[Telugu language|Telugu]]
|-
|| 2010
| ''Game Adi Life Change Madi''
| [[Udaya TV]]
| Kannada version of ''Khelo Jeeto Jiyo''
|Bhavna Ramana
|[[Kannada]]
|-
|rowspan=2|2011
| ''Ke Bane Crorepati''
| [[Mahuaa TV]]
| Bhojpuri version of ''Kaun Banega Crorepati''
| [[Shatrughan Sinha]]
|[[Bhojpuri]]
|-
| ''Key Hobe Banglar Kotipoti''
| [[Mahuaa Bangla]]
| Bengali version of ''Kaun Banega Crorepati''
|[[Sourav Ganguly]]
|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|-
|rowspan=4|2012
| ''[[Jabab Kinte Chai]]''
| [[Sananda TV]]
| Bengali version of ''[[Sell Me the Answer]]''
|[[Mir Afsar Ali]]
|Bengali
|-
| ''[[Neengalum Vellalaam Oru Kodi]]''
| [[STAR Vijay]]
| Tamil version of ''Kaun Banega Crorepati''
| [[Suriya]]
| Tamil
|-
| ''[[Ningalkkum Aakaam Kodeeshwaran]]''<ref name="indiantelevision1">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k12/mar/mar47.php|title=Indiantelevision.com's > Regional > KBC changes economic dynamics of content in southern region with local|author=Anil Wanvari|publisher=indiantelevision.com}}</ref>
| [[Asianet (TV channel)|Asianet]]
| Malayalam version of ''Kaun Banega Crorepati''
| [[Suresh Gopi]]
|[[Malayalam]]
|-
| ''[[Kannadada Kotyadhipati]]''
| [[Asianet Suvarna]]
| Kannada version of ''Kaun Banega Crorepati''
|[[Puneeth Rajkumar]]
|Kannada
|-
|rowspan=3|2013
| ''[[Ningalkkum Aakaam Kodeeshwaran]]''<ref name="indiantelevision1"/>
| Asianet
| Malayalam version of ''Kaun Banega Crorepati''
| Suresh Gopi
| Malayalam
|-
| ''[[Neengalum Vellalaam Oru Kodi]]''
| STAR Vijay
| Tamil version of ''Kaun Banega Crorepati''
| [[Prakash Raj]]
| Tamil
|-
| ''Connexion''<ref name="youtube1">{{cite web|title=Connexion|url=https://www.youtube.com/show/connexion|publisher=Star Vijay|accessdate=5 January 2014}}</ref>
| Star Vijay
| Game/quiz show
| [[Suma Kanakala]]
| Tamil
|-
|2014
| ''[[Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu]]''<ref name="business-standard1">{{cite web|url=http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/now-kbc-to-cross-language-barriers/433019/|title=Now, KBC to cross language barriers|author=Varada Bhat|date=21 April 2011|publisher=business-standard.com}}</ref>
| [[Star Maa|Maa TV]]
| Telegu version of ''Kaun Banega Crorepati''
| [[Akkineni Nagarjuna]]
|[[Telugu language|Telugu]]
|-
|2014–2015
| ''[[Ningalkkum Aakaam Kodeeshwaran]]''<ref name="indiantelevision1"/>
| Asianet
| Malayalam version of ''Kaun Banega Crorepati''
| Suresh Gopi
| Malayalam
|-
| 2015–2017
| ''Connexion''<ref name="youtube1"/>
| Star Vijay
| Game show
| [[Jagan]]
| Tamil
|-
|rowspan=2|2015
| ''[[Sell Me the Answer (Indian game show)|Sell Me the Answer]]'' (Season 1)
| Asianet
| Malayalam version of ''Sell Me the Answer''
| [[Mukesh (actor)|Mukesh]]
| Malayalam
|-
| ''[[Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu]]''<ref name="business-standard1"/>
| [[Star Maa|Maa TV]]
| Telegu version of ''Kaun Banega Crorepati''
| [[Akkineni Nagarjuna]]
| Telugu
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2016
|''Adi Mone Buzzer Fastest Family First''
| Asianet
| Game show
| [[Govind Padmasoorya]] (GP)
| Malayalam
|-
| ''[[Sell Me the Answer (Indian game show)|Sell Me the Answer]]'' Season 2
| Asianet
| Malayalam version of ''Sell Me the Answer''
| [[Mukesh (actor)|Mukesh]]
| Malayalam
|-
| ''[[Neengalum Vellalaam Oru Kodi]]''
| STAR Vijay
| Tamil version of ''Kaun Banega Crorepati''
| [[Arvind Swamy]]
| Tamil
|-
|rowspan=3|201

7-present
| ''[[Ningalkkum Aakaam Kodeeshwaran]]''<ref name="indiantelevision1"/>
| Asianet
| Malayalam version of ''Kaun Banega Crorepati''
| Suresh Gopi
| Malayalam
|-
|-
| ''[[Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu]]''<ref name="business-standard1"/>
| [[Star Maa]]
| Telegu version of ''Kaun Banega Crorepati''
| [[Akkineni Nagarjuna]] 
| Telugu
|-
|-
| ''[[Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu]](Season 4)''<ref name="business-standard1"/>
| [[Star Maa]]
| Telegu version of ''Kaun Banega Crorepati''
| [[Chiranjeevi]]
| Telugu
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{BIG Synergy}}

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[[Category:Mass media companies established in 1988]]
[[Category:Television production companies of India]]
[[Category:Entertainment companies of India]]
[[Category:Reliance Entertainment subsidiaries]]
[[Category:Indian companies established in 1988]]
[[Category:1988 establishments in Maharashtra]]

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>Shivkarandholiya12 at 06:00, 29 May 2021