Big B lauds woman’s `1 cr win

Nov 22, 2010 |

New Delhi

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is all praise for Rahat Taslim from Jharkhand who became the first woman to win `1 crore on his gameshow Kaun Banega Crorepati. “Rahat Taslim, a small town housewife from Giriddih, Jharkhand as you all may have known by now, won the one crore at KBC,” Amitabh posted on his blog bigb.Bigadda.Com. “A simple woman, a Muslim from an unknown village, still under the social and conservative norms of the ‘purdah’, came out from her house stitching activities that earned her `2,000 to `3,000 in order to run the house and made `1 crore,” he added. Taslim, 37, who is the first contestant of the fourth season of Kaun Banega Crorepati to win `1 crore, had spent most of her life facing endless hardships. While she sews clothes, her husband works with the Mica Trading Corp of India on a salary of `6,000. “She never in her life had opened even a bank account, because of their meagre earnings, had never seen the lakhs that came to her in the form of the zero’s on her cheque and had never ever imagined that she would get to the hot seat at KBC,” Amitabh wrote. “But she did. Her husband was away working in Cochin in Kerala and she took the initiative to apply first to KBC,” he added.

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