The Indian television channel Colours is working on the 4th season of its show ‘Big Boss’, an Indian version of the internationally acclaimed show-‘Big Brother’. Despite falling TRP’s since its launch, Colours is going ahead with season 4 of the show and this time they have their hopes pinned on its latest host to pull up the show from its slipping position.
The show producers have managed to rope in Bollywood actor Salman Khan to host ‘Big Boss’, Season 4, set to premiere this October. For Salman this is his second stint with a reality show on the silver screen. He has hosted another game show called ‘Das ka Dum’, for two seasons on Sony. Apparently the ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ star was a very successful host for ‘Das ka Dum’ and he managed to make the second season of the show more successful than the first one. In fact the show TRP’s actually helped Sony regain its third position in Indian Television Ratings.
Now the Colours management is hoping the actor would add some magic touch to ‘Big Boss’ too. However the 44 year old star thinks otherwise. “I don’t really care about TRPs”, is what he says. “I just like connecting with my audience, which is why I’m doing more of television. For me, television is a way of returning the love and affection that I have got from the audience for the past 22 years. Now they get to see me in the comfort of their homes, and that too for free”.
The actor goes on to say that he would only be present in the show for two days and the public would tune into see the show not because of him but because of the participants during the week. Looks like Salman is trying to tell the producers not to depend solely on him to attract TRP’s and to get some decently famous participants instead.
We too hope the show’s producers are listening; the general public too isn’t interested in watching ex-criminals and other controversial politicians and actors as inmates in the show anymore.
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