Franchises and sequels always have advantage of faring better than the originals. They only have to live up to the expectations to surpass the ratings or revenues of the original. For example the collections of Bahubali 2 are for more than the collections of Bahubali 1 even though the ratings of both the movies are almost same.

Bigg Boss -1 is huge success but lagged behind Telugu serials and Rana’s show:

Thanks to NTR screen presence, Bigg Boss 1 was a huge success. As it was NTR’s first appearance on small screen, people were curious to see how he will do as host of the show. Compared to Big Boss 2, Bigg Boss 1 has less drama, less confrontations on weekdays and people watched it mostly for weekend episodes of NTR. Reality shows in Telugu could never beat Telugu serials and Bigg Boss 1 never found in top 5 programs of the week, as all the time it is Telugu serials that occupied this top 5 slots, as per the list released by BARC. Even among non-serial programs also, Rana’s number one Yaari program with Balakrishna surpassed NTR weekend episode of Bigg Boss1’s TRP. Rana’s show managed to get a 10.3 rating for its 9th episode while Jr NTR’s Big Boss managed a 6.23 rating. Interestingly, both the shows were aired during the same time. Big Boss 2 also could not beat top 5 Telugu serials but at least among non-serial programs, it occupies the top slot.

Nutan and Shyamala reentry got 11.7 crore votes Vs Bigg Boss 1 Finale’s 11.95 crore votes:

The initial episodes of Bigg Boss 1 got criticism that the show is becoming dull and not entertaining audience especially on weekdays. But during the final weeks, people got curious to see who will be the title winner and got huge TRPs. Final episode of Bigg Boss 1 got 11.95 crore votes, as announced by NTR. Nani announced that during the re-entry of Shyamala and Nutan Naidu, almost 11.7 crore votes have been polled. Even though 11.7 crore is less than 11.95 crore votes, fetching such huge voting for reentry itself shows how big is Big Boss 2 getting compared to Big Boss 1. It is obvious that votes that will be polled for grand finale of Bigg Boss 2 will be definitely much higher than Big Boss 1.

Volume of memes, trolls, videos and articles created for Bigg Boss 2 is way higher than Bigg Boss 1:

Ever since Bigg Boss 2 started, people have been responding on the content aired last night through memes, trolls , YouTube videos and blogs. The volume of this content is way higher that was created during Big Boss 1. In fact some YouTube channels started recently are completely surviving on Bigg Boss 2 videos. This clearly shows the power of franchises and sequels and clearly indicates response to Big Boss 2 is higher than Bigg Boss 1.

Leakage of eviction info shows how curious people are:

One negative comment that Big Boss 2 faced is – information leaking about who will be evicted this weekend. One of the main reasons for this is, Bigg Boss 2 is happening in Hyderabad while Big Boss 1 happened in Pune. So, some of the audience who attended the show are revealing through their social media accounts about who got evicted. But this information is even published by leading newspapers through their online portals and within few minutes of publishing that news is going viral in social media. This really shows how curious are people to know who will be evicted this weekend.

All of this clearly shows Bigg Boss 2 is really getting bigger and bigger than Big Boss 1. While Bigg boss-1 was aired only for 70 days, Bigg boss 2 is running for more than 100 days already and sustaining momentum for these many days is really a big feat. Once the TRPs of finals are out, it may clearly emerge how big is Bigg boss 2 than Bigg boss 1.

-Zuran (CriticZuran)