SMS – Smart Money Sense

6 * 100 * 10 * 20 * 20 = 2400000. 24 lakhs in 20 minutes...

6 (Rs/SMS) * 100 (entries) * 10 (cities) * 20 (districts) * 20 (states) = 6 * 400000 (people trying for the 2 lakhs cash price).
Imagine what if 1000 entries try out from 100 cities??
The figure simply grows by 2 more zeroes and yields a whooping 24 crores!!
And it does not stops there...1000 entries from 100 towns is a very small number. In practice it could be another multiple of 100 or worst case a multiple of 1000 on an average.
In that case it is 24 * 100 crores earnings in just 20 minutes on every episode!
And the price money :-)) mere 2 CRORE - and from whose pocket ;-)
Smart Money Sense (SMS)
And the best part of this calculation is just the SMS earning! What about the Advertisement revenue? A rough annual profit calculation goes like this.
2400 * (3 * 4) (episodes/month) * 12 = 576000 crores
Even 50% get dissolved in taxes and other payments; it still leaves (which includes even the meager 480 crores of price money, i.e., if every episode bags 2 crore prize!!)
2,88,000 crores profit (only from SMS!!!!)

I don’t know how true or how valid this calculation is. But just imagine if our state (MH) government could run a simple(!) game show like this we could pay off the entire debt of the state (said to be about Rs. 1,00,000 (one lakh) crores) in just a year’s time…and still have about the same amount of money in the kitty...and the fame & fortune that goes with it for the netas.

Anyone for a lil game?

Wanakkam