Updated On: 13 August, 2025 12:38 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Amitabh Bachchan returned as host for Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 17, which premiered on August 12. In the first episode, contestant Vijay from Delhi shared how he treated his parents to a restaurant meal for the first time in 2024

Amitabh Bachchan
Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has returned to host the 17th season of Kaun Banega Crorepati, which debuted on August 12. Big B opened the presentation by discussing how the team was initially worried about the introduction of the first season, which depended purely on questions and without a song or dance to entice viewers.
During the show, he also vividly remembered a personal milestone: taking his parents out to eat for the first time, which he paid for with his own money.
In the season's opening episode, Vijay from Delhi appeared on the hot seat alongside his mother. He mentioned that his father worked for a daily pay and that he was on the show to provide his parents with a better life and a larger home after they had been living in a one-bedroom flat for a long time. While speaking with Vijay, Big B asked him to recall a time when he felt he had made his parents proud.