Evaru Meelo Koteeswarulu (transl. Who among you're millionaires?), anteriorly known as Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu, is an Indian Telugu- language telly game show. It's the sanctioned Telugu adaption of the Britain's game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. It was produced by BIG Reciprocity for first four seasons and was sounded on Star Maa. The first three seasons were hosted by actor Nagarjuna and the fourth season was hosted by actor Chiranjeevi. The title of the show had a revamp and the show is presently being sounded on Gemini TV withN.T. Rama RaoJr. as the host since August 2021.
In 2021, After completion of first four seasons (2014 – 17), the show was revamped with a new title Evaru Meelo Koteeswarulu under the produce of Studio Next with Sun TV Network buying its broadcastingrights.It started to sound on Gemini TV from 22 August 2021, withN.T. Rama RaoJr. as the host.
The shoot of 40 things of the first season ended on 18 July 2014 and the last thing of the first season was voiced on 7 August 2014. Apart from the sharers, celebrities like Vidya Balan Shriya Saran, Allari Naresh, (23) Naga Chaitanya, Vishal Jhansi, Suma, Charmme, Lakshmi Manchu, Kajal Aggarwal, Chiranjeevi made guest appearances in the game show and answered to Nagarjuna's questions which weren't a part of the game, but only some friendly talk with him.
Also known as Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu
(2014 – 2017)
Based on Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire?
Presented by Nagarjuna (Season 1–3)
Chiranjeevi (Season 4)
N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (Season 5)
Composers Keith Strachan
Matthew Strachan
Country India
Language Telugu
No. of seasons 5
No. of episodes 233
Production
Locations Hyderabad, India
Running time 90 minutes
Production BIG Synergy
companies (Season 1–4)
Studio Next
(Season 5)
Distributor Star India
(Season 1–4)
Sun TV Network
(Season 5)
Release
Network Maa TV (Season 1–3)
Star Maa (Season 4)
Gemini TV (Season 5)
Release 9 June 2014 –
Present
Season 3 has started from 26 November 2015. This time they've introduced a special theme – Jodi special. As the first step towards the launch of MEK Season 3, the registry process to share in the game show through Call for Entry (CFE) process would commence on 9 October at7.00 PM and would continue for 10 days till6.30 PM on 18 October. As part of the CFE process, one question is flashed every day at 700 PM on Maa Tube. Those who are interested can respond to the question before6.30 PM on the succeeding day. Another question is flashed at7.00 PM on the succeeding day.
Season 4 was launched on 13 February 2017, hosted by Chiranjeevi and the show made his Telugu TV debut but the season which didn't fare as hoped in terms of TVRs when compared to its earlier seasons and after this season the show was discontinued on Star Maa.
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