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Alumnus Siddhartha Basu and Wife Alumna Anita Kaul Basu

PT Cul 014 www.alumni.du.ac.in The University of Delhi Alumni edition 8 2020 Meet the Man who reinvented Amitabh Bachchan ! alumnus Siddhartha Basu and wife alumna Anita Kaul Basu a lpix 0891 alpix 0891 A Siddhartha Basu Anita Kaul Basu BA Eng Hons 1974 St Stephen’s BA Eng Lit 1978 MH MA Eng 1977 Hindu Director Founder Tree of Knowledge Tree of Knowledge Indian Television Producer Former Chairperson and Director Director and Quiz show Host Big Synergy Producer Director of Superhit shows Kaun Banega Crorepati , Dus ka Dum , Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa and India’s Got Talent Hosts shows like Quiz Time , Mastermind India and University Challenge Siddhartha is best known as the father of Indian TV Quizzing , Founder Director of the content company Tree of Knowledge that he runs with wife Anita ( also a DU alumna ) . Called Babu by friends and colleagues, he works from an office in south Delhi’s Zamrudpur . Siddhartha has also acted in Bollywood films making his debut with an award winning film, Madras Cafe . He has since also done cameo roles in Bombay Velvet and 2 south Indian films. Other than directing , he has also trained big Bollywood film stars and a number of hosts for television shows . He has edited , created and authored several books in the information and quiz domain, including a series of highly successful Class 1 – 8 books for school children with Encyclopaedia Britannica . Anita Kaul Basu has been a regular Jury member for the International Emmy Awards , the Indian Telly Awards and the premier advertising awards, the Abby’s . She has also been a stylist for various film and television stars who have hosted the Big Synergy shows, including Amitabh Bachchan , Shah Rukh Khan , Salman Khan , Rajeev Khandelwal and Soha Ali Khan . Anita continues to be involved in print publications. She Project - managed the Mastermind India book series and Quiz columns for various Indian newspapers. She has also project- managed several multimedia live quiz shows across the country . Source : Tree of Knowledge and Big Synergy .

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