Maharshi Poor Rating, OTT Effect!

Super Star Mahesh Babu’s 25th film Maharshi and Samantha’s Oh Baby were screened in TVs during Dussehra in Gemini TV and Maa TV respectively. Now, the TRP ratings of the premiere shows of the two super hit films are out. While Maharshi got 9.2 TRP’s, Oh Baby got 9 TRP’s.

Usually, films of star heroes with good following in family audience get around 12 to 15 TRP’s for first premiere in TVs. Although Maharshi was a commercial hit and it was made as a family entertainer, the film got poor TRP’s. On the other hand, given that, Oh Baby is a medium budgeted female centric film, the TRP it got is good enough.

Venkatesh, Varun Tej’s F2 is the top rated film this year with 17.2 TRP, while Kanchana 3 still holds the second spot with 13.10 TRPs. Maharshi now settles at third spot, while Oh Baby grabs the fourth rank.

What actually caused Maharshi in getting low TRP rating. Undoubtedly, it’s the effect of OTT (Over the top media service like Amazon, Netflix etc.). Maharshi is available in Amazon Prime Video for long. More importantly, overseas market is also badly affected by this OTT revolution.

Pooja Hegde played Mahesh Babu’s love interest in Maharshi directed by Vamsi Paidipally.