The big debate for now is, whether Mahesh Babu and ‘1 Nenokkadine’ will be able to break the top records created by Pawan Kalyan and ‘Aththarintiki Daaredi’? In the past, it happened with ‘Magadheera’ for Ramcharan and ‘Dookudu’ for Mahesh Babu as situations were definitely on their advantage and things worked well more than what was expected. This time, even though a DVD quality piracy print of ‘AD’ was leaked on net before the release, still the movie went on to reach the top milestone.
Now, the challenge for Mahesh Babu and ‘1’ is to cross ‘AD’ in the coming Pongal season. To achieve this, 14 Reels Entertainment Banner Producers are making aggressive moves in pre-release promotions. This will surely help but there are also plenty of new and big movies like ‘Yevadu, Heart Attack’ etc planned for release in the same Pongal season. This means, there will be a division in public interest and availability of theatres can also be a hurdle to ripe huge openings. Mahesh has to overcome these barriers to thrash ‘AD’ records.