EPISODE - 3 : An office in five hours?

The journey towards the big prize and crores of money - the fulfillment of one unique business idea -- has finally started. In this episode, the twenty Business Baazigar finalists were given their first major challenge. In teams of five, they had to set up a fully functional office within a time constraint of five hours, and a budget constraint of Rs 50,000. All teams immediately sprung into action, and rushed to the two allocated market places -- Lokhanwala Market and Behrambagh in search of everything -- from a pin to a printer. Each of the four teams chose their own leaders and formulated their own strategies. Arundhati's team decided to make their office by spending as little money as possible, Manish's team was stuck on the idea of buying only modular office furniture… at any cost. While Satyajit's team split into three parts to finish the work as quickly as possible, Ali's team tried sticking together, which only led to utter confusion and more time being spent. Working together for the first time, personal differences between the various contestants surfaced from time to time, as was especially evident in Arundhati's team which almost ostracised their elderly team member, Damodar Mishraji. Amidst panic, chaos and last minute disorder, all the teams finally managed to complete their shopping in the allotted time.

But the true acid test is the actual setting up of the office, which will be judged by none other than the senior jury member Subhash Chandra… Watch out for the outcome in the next episode!