27 year old Sushil Kumar, a poor government clerk from a remote and poverty-stricken region of
northern India became
the first person to win 50 million rupees, worth more than $1m, on
Indian version of 'Who wants to be a Millionaire'.
Kumar's win echoes the plot of the 2008 Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, whose impoverished protagonist won the grand prize on the show.
Kumar
and his wife of five months wept when Indian movie legend Amitabh
Bachchan, the show's host, handed them a cheque for 50 million rupees
(just over $US1 million) after the contestant gave all the right answers
on the show.
