Salman Khan on the failure of Dus Ka Dum and Bigg Boss 12

The finale of Dus Ka Dum 3 is yet to be aired but Salman Khan has already moved to his other show, Bigg Boss. In an interview with DNA, Salman revealed what went wrong with Dus Ka Dum 3 and what brings him back to host Bigg Boss every year.

For hosting Bigg Boss, Salman told the daily, “I find it interesting to watch people’s behaviour in the house, and when I see something going wrong, I get involved in it, unlike the other hosts who play it right. Earlier in my life, a lot of things have gone wrong, takleef toh hoti hai. Not only for the person, but even the parents go through a lot of trouble and pain. That’s the reason, when things go wrong in the Bigg Boss house, I tell them to not get into that space. But, honestly, this is where our country is going. If they do something that is not in our culture or go overboard then I step in for their sake. If those under the cameras inside the house are okay with behaving like that (badly) and people are watching them making it one of the highest-rated shows, obviously everyone is enjoying it.”

He also revealed that the show is starting earlier this time because the channel wanted the contestants to celebrate New Year.

For the failure of Dus Ka Dum, he says, “What happened was we slotted the show on Monday-Tuesday, but nobody knew that it was being telecast. Wahan thodasa maar kha gaye. Even I had thought it was a brilliant idea to slot it on those days because on weekends people have several things to do. I thought ki log ghar baithke dekh sakte hain at the beginning of the week. Lekin that didn’t happen because the awareness was not there. Even Atul’s (Agnihotri) mother did not know about it. When the show was in its fourth week, she asked me when was it starting. Only when I told her (Atul Agnihotri’s mother) it had already begun that she started watching it… in the fourth week. The makers got to know something was amiss in the second or third week and they started checking. They decided to shift it to Saturday-Sunday, which was much riskier. But they got their promotions correct this time, even I created awareness about it in the show and it started rating 1.7-1.8.”

He also revealed to DNA that everytime the launch of a show happens in a studio or a hangar but this time they wanted it to be different hence they chose Goa to launch Bigg Boss 12.

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