Bollywood actor Salman Khan during Bigg Boss 14, over the weekend, took a sly dig at some media channels who are allegedly manipulating TRPs.
On the Weekend Ka Vaar episode, while purportedly speaking to the contestants, the actor slammed the news channels and said, "Bigg Boss ke andar ya kisi bhi show ke andar, you have to play the right game. Yeh nahi ki TRP ke liye kuch bhi khelo. Bahut achcha ja rahe ho tum log. From Day-1, I have never seen the response you are getting. To make it bigger and better, be honest and real. Not by ki yaar yeh bakwas kar raha hai, jhoot bol raha hai, chilla raha hai. Point yeh nahi hai. Woh aapke channel ko bandh kar denge (You have to play the right game in Bigg Boss or any other show. You can’t do anything for TRP. From Day-1, I have never seen the response you are getting. Be honest and real to strike it big and make it better. One should not speak nonsense, lie and shout. This is not the point. They will shut your channel)."
He further added, "Jo mujhe kehna tha, indirectly maine keh diya (What I wanted to say, I have said indirectly)."
For the uninformed, a fake TRP case was registered by Mumbai Police last week. It has claimed to have busted a TRP manipulation racket after TV viewership measurement agency Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) filed a complaint.
Mumbai Police later issued a statement on the TRP scam saying, "The complainant had mentioned the name of a channel in her application. When we began the investigation, no evidence was found against that channel. However, we found three channels including, Republic TV, and two Marathi channels — Box Cinema and Fakt Marathi, of rigging TRPs. Two people related to Box Cinema and Fakt Marathi channels have been arrested, while an investigation against the third channel, i.e. Republic TV, is underway."
The police alleged that Hansa has misused the data, adding that sample houses, where barometers had been installed to monitor ratings, were paid to watch certain TV channels.
