When megastar Chiranjeevi was gearing up for his big comeback to Tollywood with his landmark 150th film, many people doubted whether he possessed the same charisma that made him the undisputed king of Telugu cinema. Chiru not just ridiculed all those doubters but also eclipsed the expectations of fans with ‘Khaidi No.150’ and proved his authority over box office.
After conquering the Big screen, the legendary actor is now gearing up for his first ever TV stint, as a host for the 4th season of successful game show, ‘Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu’. Can Megastar repeat the same success story on Small Screen?
The first episode of MEK4 with Chiranjeevi as the host was telecast on 13th February. Leading to this, there was a lot of buzz on social media over how the episode would turn out. Everyone especially family audiences/TV viewers eagerly waited to see the first ever TV show of megastar. Finally, after the first episode of the show was aired, the response was encouraging. Megastar looked at his best as the host. His swift and polite interaction with the guests on the show, irrespective of their age and gender, won everybody’s applause.
Now comes the big question. Can Megastar’s charisma help MEK4 set new TRP records and justify why he is called the ‘Boss’?
It is known that Nagarjuna Akkineni hosted the first 3 seasons of this show and he is credited for taking it to new heights in terms of TRP ratings. When Chiru replaced Nag for the fourth season, some fans of the show expressed their concern over Chiru’s tainted image in politics maligning the future of MEK. After the promos announcing Chiru as the host were released, many commented that Chiru was no match to Nag as the host of MEK. On the whole, a sizeable negativity and doubts are hovering over Chiru’s ability to pull TV audiences to MEK show and replicate the success of previous seasons.
We can’t take these doubts over megastar’s crowd-pulling capacity in a lighter manner as he truly had a terrible political stint. So, people would obviously think that he must have lost his charisma and does not enjoy the same stardom anymore.
Well, the same doubts were prevalent until the release of megastar’s comeback film ‘Khaidi No.150’ as well. Megastar however proved all his detractors and doubters wrong by scoring the non-Baahubali industry hit and erasing even some of the Baahubali records in the Telugu states. With such gigantic success, megastar has proved that he might have tasted failure in politics but he still is the king of tollywood box office.
Megastar justified the ‘Boss is Back’ tag by thrashing all the existing records with Khaidi No.150. Can he repeat the same magic on TV and prove that ‘Boss is Boss’ whether it is big screen or small screen? Given that Chiru is a bigger star than Nagarjuna, which the Akkineni hero has also confessed speaking at the success bash of Khaidi No.150, Chiru is expected to recreate the high TRP Ratings of past 3 seasons of MEK if not better them.
We need to wait until a conclusive report on TRP ratings comes out.
