This is the first season of Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi, Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. From Monday to Thursday on Vijay TV aired. It's hosted by Suriya. Top prize was Rs. 10,000,000.
In this season, each player had a timer: for an answer to 1-5 questions, the contestant had 30 seconds, the answer to 6-10 questions the contestant was given 45 seconds. If the contestant successfully answered the 10th question, then when answering 11-15 questions the clock disappeared, and the player could think for an unlimited amount of time.
Lifelines[]
It is a clock format where three standard lifelines were:
Episodes[]
- Episode 1 (27 February 2012)
Devaraj (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000) Anton Sahaya Ajai (Rs. 10,000, continued)
- Episode 2 (28 February 2012)
Anton Sahaya Ajai (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 80,000) Deepika Rangan (Rs. 640,000)
- Episode 3 (29 February 2012)
Lokesh Gurunathan (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 320,000) Maheswari M (Rs. 80,000) Nirmala Devi (Rs. 0, continued)
- Episode 4 (1 March 2012)
Nirmala Devi (Rs. 160,000) Durgadevi (Rs. 80,000, continued)
- Episode 5 (5 March 2012)
Durgadevi (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 160,000) George Wellington (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 160,000) Dinesh Raghavender (Rs. 0, continued)
- Episode 6 (6 March 2012)
Dinesh Raghavender (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 320,000) Lakshmi Meera (Rs. 80,000, continued)
- Episode 7 (7 March 2012)
Lakshmi Meera (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000) Karthikeyan K (Rs. 160,000) Pandian (Rs. 10,000, continued)
- Episode 8 (8 March 2012)
Pandian (Rs. 640,000) Krithika Badarinath (Rs. 10,000, continued)
- Episode 9 (12 March 2012)
Krithika Badrinath (Rs. 1,250,000) Pandiarajan (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 10 (13 March 2012)
Pandiarajan (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 80,000) Vaishnavi (Rs. 640,000)
- Episode 11 (14 March 2012)
Suganya (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000) Sukanya Sivakumar (Rs. 0 - lost on Rs. 2,000) Robin Wesley (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 12 (15 March 2012)
Robin Wesley (Rs. 640,000) Navaneetha Krishnan (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 13 (19 March 2012)
Navaneetha Krishnan (Rs. 1,250,000)
- Episode 14 (20 March 2012)
- Episode 15 (21 March 2012)
Nagarjun (?)
- Episode 16 (22 March 2012)
Sankara Prasad (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 17 (26 March 2012)
Sankara Prasad (Rs. 160,000) Manikandan (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 18 (27 March 2012)
Manikandan (Rs. 2,500,000)
- Episode 19 (28 March 2012)
Radhiga (?)
- Episode 20 (29 March 2012)
- Episode 21 (2 April 2012)
- Episode 22 (3 April 2012) - Celebrity Special
Shruti Haasan (Rs. 640,000)
- Episode 23 (4 April 2012)
Imayavaramban (?)
- Episode 24 (5 April 2012)
- Episode 25 (9 April 2012) - Celebrity Special
Ma Ka Pa Anand and Bhavana (Rs. 160,000) Sivakarthikeyan and Kalyani (Rs. 10,000, continued)
- Episode 26 (10 April 2012) - Celebrity Special
Sivakarthikeyan and Kalyani (Rs. 10,000) Senthil and Rajasekar (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 27 (11 April 2012) - Celebrity Special
Senthil and Rajasekar (Rs. 640,000) Divyadarshini and Deepak (Rs. 160,000)
- Episode 28 (12 April 2012) - Celebrity Special
C. Gopinath (Rs. 1,250,000) Jagan and Ramya (Rs. 320,000)
- Episode 29 (16 April 2012)
- Episode 30 (17 April 2012)
- Episode 31 (18 April 2012)
- Episode 32 (19 April 2012)
- Episode 33 (23 April 2012)
- Episode 34 (24 April 2012)
- Episode 35 (25 April 2012)
- Episode 36 (26 April 2012) - Celebrity Special
Ravichandran Ashwin and Preethi Narayanan (Rs. 1,250,000)
- Episode 37 (30 April 2012)
- Episode 38 (1 May 2012) - May Day Special
- Episode 39 (2 May 2012) - Celebrity Special
Karthi (Rs. 80,000, continued)
- Episode 40 (3 May 2012) - Celebrity Special
Karthi (Rs. 1,250,000) Mohamed Mohsin (Rs. 40,000, continued)
- Episode 41 (7 May 2012)
Mohamed Mohsin (?)
- Episode 42 (8 May 2012)
- Episode 43 (9 May 2012)
Rahila Begum (Rs. 40,000, continued)
- Episode 44 (10 May 2012)
Rahila Begum (Rs. 640,000) Jecintha (Rs. 320,000, continued)
- Episode 45 (14 May 2012) - Family Special
Jecintha (Rs. 640,000) Vivek and Kamalamma (Rs. 640,000, continued)
- Episode 46 (15 May 2012) - Family Special
Vivek and Kamalamma (Rs. 640,000) Manikandan and Sivasankari (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000) Venkatesh and Geetha (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 47 (16 May 2012) - Family Special
Venkatesh and Geetha (Rs. 1,250,000) Lakhshmi and Lalitha (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 48 (17 May 2012) - Family Special
Lakhshmi and Lalitha (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000) Latha and Sathyanadhan (Rs. 10,000, continued)
- Episode 49 (21 May 2012) - Family Special
Latha and Sathyanadhan (?)
Sukanya and Salem (?)
- Episode 50 (22 May 2012)
Narmada Devi (?) Vimal and Anjali (?)
- Episode 51 (23 May 2012)
Shobana (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 52 (24 May 2012)
Shobana (?) Shiva and Oviya (?) Kalaivani (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 53 (28 May 2012)
Kalaivani (?)
Rani (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 54 (29 May 2012)
Rani (?)
Poyyamozhi (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 55 (30 May 2012)
Poyyamozhi (?) Rajkumar (Rs. 2,500,000)
- Episode 56 (31 May 2012) - Celebrity Special
Jayam Ravi and M. Raja (Rs. 1,250,000)
- Episode 57 (4 June 2012)
Jayam Angel Mary (?) Dhanshekar (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 58 (5 June 2012)
Dhanshekar (?) Srinivasan (?) Vikash Gunasekar (?)
- Episode 59 (6 June 2012)
Parveen Fathima (?) Bhuvana (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 60 (7 June 2012)
Bhuvana (?)
Meenakshi (?)
- Episode 61 (11 June 2012)
Suganya (?) Pavithra Santhakumar (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 62 (12 June 2012)
Pavithra Santhakumar (?)
Archana (?)
- Episode 63 (13 June 2012)
Selvakumar (?) Preetham (?)
- Episode 64 (14 June 2012)
Chandramouli (?) Chandrakanth (?)
- Episode 65 (18 June 2012)
Sabitha Binu (?) Nadi Muthu (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 66 (19 June 2012)
Nadi Muthu (?)
Sri Lakshmi (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 67 (20 June 2012)
Sri Lakshmi (?)
Revathy (?)
- Episode 68 (21 June 2012)
Aadhithya Sankar (?) Padmanaban (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 69 (25 June 2012)
Padmanaban (?)
Anjali (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 70 (26 June 2012)
Anjali (?) Nirmala (?) Kurunji Malar (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 71 (27 June 2012)
Kurunji Malar (?)
Krishnan (?)
- Episode 72 (28 June 2012)
Saranya (Rs. 160,000) Seetha (Rs. 0, continued) Srinivas and Nithyashree Mahadevan (Rs. 640,000)
- Episode 73 (2 July 2012) - Celebrity Special
Naresh Iyer and Haricharan (Rs. 640,000) Karthik (Rs. 640,000)
- Episode 74 (3 July 2012) - Celebrity Special
Benny Dayal and Swetha Mohan (Rs. 640,000)
- Episode 75 (4 July 2012)
Seetha (?)
Jayapradha (?)
- Episode 76 (5 July 2012)
Prabhu (?) Radhika (Rs. ?, continued)
- Episode 77 (9 July 2012) - Celebrity Special
Radhika (?) Sathyaraj and Radha (Rs. 640,000)
- Episode 78 (10 July 2012) - Celebrity Special
Prathap Pothan and Kushboo Sundar (Rs. 640,000) Nadhiya and Rahman (Rs. 10,000, continued)
- Episode 79 (11 July 2012) - Celebrity Special
Nadhiya and Rahman (Rs. 640,000) Suhasini and Mohan (Rs. 1,250,000)
- Episode 80 (12 July 2012) - Final
Sivakumar (?)
Trivia[]
- Filming the first episodes of the first season of this version took place in January 2012.
- Devaraj is very first contestant of Tamil version.
- Celebrity contestant Shruti Haasan had his father Kamal Haasan as Phone-a-Friend friend, who in next season as contestant appeared. She called him, he helped her with the answer.
- In 40th episode, in FFF all 10 potential contestants made right order.
- In 80th episode, the best moments of first season were shown. In addition, the top 11 contestants of this season who were seated in FFF seats were invited to the studio: Bona, Shankara Prasad, Kuppam, Besant Ravi, Ponnu, Krishna, Jatti, Manikandan (first to win Rs. 2,500,000), Parvathi, Rajkumar (second to win Rs. 2,500,000) and Santhanam.
Sources[]
| Preceded by None |
Indian Series Season 1 |
Succeeded by Season 2 |