What began as a few seemingly ordinary missed calls quickly became life-changing for 44-year-old Saravanan Venkatachalam. The electrical engineer from Chennai, working in the UAE, had ignored several calls from an unknown number during work hours, assuming they were spam.

What he didn’t realise was that the callers were Big Ticket hosts Richard and Bouchra, trying to reach him during work hours to inform him that he had just won a Dh25 million (around Rs 60 crore) jackpot.

Moments later, his phone was flooded with calls from his wife and friends, confirming the unbelievable news. “It was unbelievable. Even then, I wasn’t sure it was true because there may be many people with my name," Venkatachalam told Gulf News after finally connecting with the Big Ticket team.

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