The Fourth Season
Amitabh Bachchan hosted the fourth season in 2010. The show moved from Star Plus to Sony Television (the programme is produced by Sony Pictures Television, which owns the format thought 2waytraffic), but Siddhartha Basu remained the director and creative head. The new logo designed for the fourth season incorporated the new Indian Rupee symbol, which was unveiled the same year. The phone lines for the fourth season opened on 2 August 2010 at 9 pm (IST).
The Indian version adopted the clock format from the US version and is the fourth country's version to do (the others being Japan and the UK; although the US version abandoned the clock for the 2010-11 season when the show's 2010 format changes were made), although the time limits were shorter that in the UK version. There was a 30 second time limit for questions 1 and 2, and a 45 second time limit for questions 3 to 7, but questions 8 to 13 were not timed.
The clock stops whenever a lifeline is used, and if the contestant allows the clock to run out, he/she will be forced to walk away. There were four lifelines: Audience Poll and Phone a Friend will make a return, along with the addition of two new lifelines Ask the Expert and Double Dip. The season ended on 9 December 2010.
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