Erection of grand settings in Ramoji Film City or arranging of finances from the backend helping ‘Bahubali’ to emerge as a quality product prompted media people to cook a new gossip on ETV being the winner of ‘Bahubali’ satellite rights. All such rumors can now be put to rest because official reports confirmed that MAA TV bagged ‘Bahubali Part 1’ and ‘Bahubali Part 2’ Telugu version satellite rights at costlier price of 30 Crores.
In fact, the ‘Bahubali’ small screen business is kept on backburner letting Sun Network, Zee Network and MAA TV to compete within them-selves before coming up with a final quote. Rajamouli never showed interest in revealing any news connected to ‘Bahubali’ satellite prices. For a film of this magnitude and called as country’s best Celluloid Wonder till date, any cost less than 30 Crores can be felt inferior.
MAA TV management is confident enough to generate never heard TRPs when ‘Bahubali’ gets the actual and first small screen time. There is also maximum scope for repeats with safe TRPs which might have propelled MAA to go for high risk investment on a safe bet film.