Other day, it started with the news that the muhurat event of Prabhas and Maruthi’s film, tentatively titled “Raja Deluxe” will be held on Thursday. Later another rumour has come out that the film’s muhurat got canceled for unknown reasons. In between this, fans of Prabhas started trending the hashtag #BoycottMaruthi and #BoycottMaruthiFromTFI, which is a sort of big setback.
The moment Maruthi’s film news is coming out, Prabhas’ fans are upset that their star hero is doing a film with a director who will do only bizarre comedies. The trend is that these fans are taking help from even fans of other heroes and trending the hashtags on Twitter. That’s how we ended up reading the hashtag #BoycottMaruthiFromTFI.
Coming to Prabhas, he will not be okaying a film just for the fact that Maruthi is good friends with UV Creations’ Vamsi and Pramod. Surely he will be looking into the script and the budgets involved, and that is the deal maker for him.
On the other hand, fans do feel that Maruthi will be delivering only a flop with big stars because he never writes something to the image of a hero but keeps writing only the comedy that he believes in. That’s something even Maruthi should realise and correct, otherwise, if he keeps talking tall about films and life in general during promotions, but fails to live up to the expectations on the silver screen, these types of hashtags get trended.
Back in the 90s, when K Raghavendra Rao was delivering a string of flops, many distributors and exhibitors wrote letters to Megastar Chiranjeevi and met him in person, advising him to not give him a chance to direct the “Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari”. But then, Chiru went on with his own guts and carved out an all-time classic and iconic movie that has no other match to it till date. Cut to now, Maruthi has delivered two back to back flops, of course, he’s not to that range of K Raghavendra Rao, but then fans asking Prabhas to not do a film with him is something quite strange.