Telugu films have good market in Karnataka and all the films of Tollywood star heroes will have huge release in the state. There’s huge demand for Kannada satellite rights as well. Coming to the actual point, superstar Mahesh Babu’s sankranthi outing Sarileru Neekevvaru has broken previous records to become top TRP getter for a Kanada dub films.
Sarileru Neekevvaru got 6.5 TRP rating which is highest for a Telugu film dubbed in Kannada. It surpassed previous record of megastar Chiranjeevi’s Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy which received 6.3 TRP in its premiere.
Ram Charan’s Rangasthalam and Vijay Deverakonda’s Geetha Govindam got 6 and 5.6 TV ratings respectively.
It is known that, Sarileru Neekevvaru secured a record TRP of 23.4 for its Telugu Television premiere during Ugadi. In doing so, it had beaten Baahubali 2 that had a rating of 22.7.