10 Ka Dum
10 Ka Dum is an Indian version of the popular international reality game show Power of 10, and aired on Sony Entertainment Television. The show was hosted by popular Bollywood actor Salman Khan. According to reports, the show helped Sony TV regain its third position in the Indian television ratings. A third season was announced which would premiere on 4 June 2018, also on Sony Entertainment Television. The Grand Finale Guest of the third season were Shahrukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee.The final episode also had a special entry of Comedian Sunil Grover in his avatar Rinku Bhabhi and Amitabh Bachchan.
Game rules
The game consists of two rounds.First round
In the first round, two contestants compete against each other in a best three-out-of-five format in which they are asked a 'Poll Question' and asked to provide a whole percentage number that most closely approximates the exact survey poll answer for the question. The contestant whose answers are closest to the poll results for 3 out of 5 national survey questions wins the 'First-Round'. The contestant who loses is then eliminated from the game.Second round
The contestant who wins the first round plays the game to win up to Rs. 100,000,000/- by trying to correctly approximate the survey's results within a narrowing percentage range for up to four poll questions. In this round, the contestant was given similar questions and placed a range on a scale from 0% to 100% that included the correct answer. The size of the range decreased as the money values increased:- Rs. 10,000 question: 40% range
- Rs. 100,000 question: 30% range
- Rs. 1,000,000 question: 20% range
- Rs. 10,000,000 question: 10% range
- Rs. 100,000,000 question: One has to pick a number
As with the lower prize levels, the contestant may elect to take the walk-away prize for the Rs. 100,000,000 prize level, i.e., Rs. 1,000,000 and terminate the game before locking in a response. However, if the contestant decides to lock in a response, the response cannot be changed, and the contestant no longer has the option of taking the walk-away prize of Rs. 10,000,000. If the contestant locks in a response, the survey result for the poll question is then revealed. If the survey's result is exactly the same as the contestant's response, the contestant is then awarded Rs. 100,000,000. But, if the survey's result is not exactly the same as the contestant's response, the contestant will be awarded Rs. 1,000,000.
Prize-level (in Rupees)
- Note: All prizes listed below include any taxes that may apply.
Season 1
| Contestant Name | Episode # | Date Premiered | Winning Amount | Eliminated Contestant |
| Akshata Tiwarekar | 1 | 6 June | Rs.100,000 | Wamika Ghai |
| Nandini Biswas | 2 | 7 June | Rs.100,000 | Utkarsh Marwah |
| Bawbin Kumar | 2/3 | 7 June/June 13 | Rs.1,000,000 | Kamal Asif |
| Zeeba Khan | 3 | 13 June | Rs.10,000 | Pooja Shah |
| Yuvraj Singh | 4 | 14 June | Rs.10,000,000 | Harbhajan Singh |
| Hiren Ambegaokar | 5 | 20 June | Rs.100,000 | Habib Mithiborwala |
| Navin Rao | 5/6 | 20 June/June 21 | Rs.1,000,000 | Saif Ullah |
| Aditya Prabhu | 6/7 | 21 June/June 27 | Rs.100,000 | Sourangsu Ghosh |
| Manpreet Singh | 7/8 | 27 June/July 28 | Rs.100,000 | Laxmi Narayan Tripathi |
| Prerna Gandhi | 8 | 28 June | Rs.1,000,000 | Lalita Narayan |
| Aamir Khan | 9 | 4 July | Rs.10,000,000 | Imran Khan |
| Karishma Mehta | 10 | 5 July | Rs.1,000,000 | Monika Dutta |
| Manish Bharadwaj | 10/11 | 5 July/July 11 | Rs.1,000 | Rosy Singh |
| Susanta Raut | 11 | 11 July | Rs.1,000 | Ronita Sharma |
| Sonia | 12 | 12 July | Rs.1,000,000 | |
| Manpreet Chadda | 12/13 | 12 July/July 18 | Rs.10,000 | Gopikishan Mishra |
| Subrata Kar | 13/14 | 18 July/July 19 | Rs.1,000,000 | Ghanshyam Baman |
| Jagjeet Singh | 14 | 19 July | Rs.1,000,000 | Bushra Shaikh |
| Govinda | 15 | 25 July | Rs.1,000,000 | David Dhawan |
| Ashish Pandey | 16 | 26 July | Rs.1,000,000 | Nusrat Patel |
| Neetu Singh | 16/17 | 26 July/August 1 | Rs.100 | Preeti Sharma |
| Sanjay Ghatak | 17 | 1 August | Rs.100 | Priyanka Dey |
| Kumud Bajaj | 17/18 | 1 August/August 2 | Rs.1,000 | Neha Saxena |
| Vishal Netke | 18 | 2 August | Rs.1,000,000 | Siddharth Tiwari |
| Afsana Khan | 19 | 8 August | Rs.10,000 | Anoop Thakur |
| Anita Kumari | 19/20 | 8 August/August 9 | Rs.1,000,000 | Paresh Dhakaan |
| Vipula Raina | 20 | 9 August | Rs.10,000,000 | Poonam Sharma |
| Ranbir Kapoor | 21 | 15 August | Rs.100,000 | Deepika Padukone; also Minissha Lamba |
| Akshay Kumar | 22 | 16 August | Rs.100,000 | Katrina Kaif |
| Bobby Deol | 23 | 22 August | Rs.100,000 | Priyanka Chopra |
| Raj Devi | 24 | 23 August | Rs.100,000 | Jaya Reddy |
| Nikhil Vora | 24/25 | 23 August/August 29 | Rs.1,000,000 | Chinta Mani Mishra |
| Chirag Shah | 25 | 29 August | Rs.10,000 | Tumal Shinde |
| Jeetendra | 26 | 30 August | Rs.1,000,000 | Tusshar Kapoor |
| Piya Sharma | 27 | 5 September | Rs.1,000,000 | Tarunpreet Bedi |
| Arbaaz Khan | 28 | 6 September | Rs.100,000 | Sohail Khan |
| Maya Mehta | 29 | 12 September | Rs.1,000,000 | Atul Solanki |
| Kailash Kher | 30 | 13 September | - | Anu Malik |
| Shakeel Siddiqui | 31 | 14 September | Rs.10,000 | Rakhi Sawant |
| Rani Mukherji | 31 | 14 September | Rs.1,000,000 | Lara Dutta |
Note:
- Kailash Kher didn't win any money because he was on the show to promote Indian Idol 4.
- Rani Mukherji actually won Rs.100,000 but Sony Television decided to give her Rs.1,000,000.
Aamir Khan
Season 2
| Contestant Name | Episode # | Date Premiered | Winning Amount | Eliminated Contestant |
| Kareena Kapoor | 1 | 30 May | Rs.1,000,000 | Karishma Kapoor |
| Daler Mehndi | 2 | 6 June | Rs.1,000,000 | Mika Singh |
| Darsheel Safary | 3 | 13 June | Rs.100,000 | Tanay Chheda |
| Katrina Kaif | 4 | 20 June | Rs.1,000,000 | Neil Nitin Mukesh |
| Vijendra Kumar | 5 | 27 June | Rs. 100,000 | Malika Sherawat |
| Sunny Deol | 6 | 4 July | Rs. 100,000 | Dharmendra |
| Kangana Ranaut | 7 | 11 July | Rs. 100,000 | Pandit Janardan |
| Shilpa Shetty | 8 | 18 July | Rs. 100,000 | Irfan Pathan |
| Sunil Mishra | 9 | 25 July | Rs. 10,000 | Priyanka Shukla |
| Farah Khan | 10 | 1 August | Rs. 1,000,000 | Deepika Padukone |
| Sanjay Dutt | 11 | 8 August | Rs. 1,000,000 | Jackie Shroff |
| Dutta Pangare | 12 | 15 August | Rs. 1,000,000 | Meena Bhoir |
| Kapil Dev | 13 | 22 August | Rs. 100,000 | Navjot Singh Sidhu |
| Ragini Khanna & Ratan Rajput | 14 | 29 August | Rs. 1,000,000 | Sara Khan & Tina Dutta |
| Sunil Shetty | 15 | 5 September | Rs.1,000,000 | Javed Jaffrey & Aftab Shivdasani |
| Rani Mukerjee | 16 | 12 September | Rs. 100,000 | Shahid Kapoor |
| Boney Kapoor & Sri Devi | 17 | 19 September | Rs. 100,000 | Prabhu Deva & Ayesha Takia Azmi |
| Ritesh Deshmukh | 18 | 26 September | Rs. 1,000,000 | Govinda & David Dhawan |
| Shatrughan Sinha | 19 | 3 October | Rs. 10,000 | Hema Malini |
| Himesh Reshammiya | 20 | 10 October | Rs. 100,000 | Sonal Sehgal & Shenaz Treasurywala |
| Ajay Devgan | 21 - Grand Finale | 17 October | Rs. 1,000,000 | Fardeen Khan |
Note: The 'Grand Finale' of 10 Ka Dum Season 2 aired on 17 October 2009. Guests were Ajay Devgn and Fardeen Khan, promoting their upcoming film ; other guests were from Sony TV's popular shows: Indian Idol 1 winner Abhijeet Sawant, popular comedians Krushna Abhishek and Sudesh Lahiri from Comedy Circus; and the cast of Sony Entertainment Television series C.I.D..
Season 3
| Celebrity Contestants | Episode # | Contestants who won 1 crore or 10 crores | Contestants who won 1 crore or 10 crores and are celebrity | Eliminated contestants |
The third season of the show integrated an innovative technology powered by which allowed Sony viewers to participate in the show though the channel app. The show run a pre-show interactive activity where every user could register and participate by answering different profile questions about themselves. The registered users answered generated the base for the Live show questions.
Screenz technology also enabled audience participation during the live show by play-along interactions that were available in real-time to millions of users simultaneously and by that upgrading the show from a regular/standard game show into an INTERACTIVE MASS AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION EXPERIENCE!
Ratings
The show was popular and was at number one thousand spot in ratings in India. It garnered an average TVR of 2.81 and a peak rating of 4.5, leaving behind Shahrukh Khan's Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tej hai? with an average rating of 1.37 TVR and a peak rating of 2.3 and Hrithik Roshan's Junoon — Kuch Kar Dikhane Ka on NDTV Imagine with an average TVR of 0.76 and a peak rating of 1.1Awards and nominations
Indian Telly Awards 2008 and 2009- Salman Khan won the Best Anchor Award for 10 Ka Dum in 2008 and 2009.
- 10 Ka Dum won Best Game Show Award in 2008 and 2010.