An interesting study on Prince Mahesh Babu's terms with big directors evinces that the Prince has some issues with a few big and senior directors of Tollywood. Checkout the following.
It's an open secret the terms between Mahesh Babu and top Sukumar are not that great. De facto, Sukumar wasted one long year and prepared three scripts of different genres for Mahesh Babu. However, none of the scripts impressed Prince which made the director walking out of Mahesh's film inevitably. Afterwards, Mahesh Babu threw some satires indirectly on the director through a public dais and twitter platform.
Lately, Puri Jagannadh disclosed that Prince would prefer working with only hit directors. Puri received severe beating from Mahesh Babu's fans on social media. Incidentally, except Mahesh Babu, all stars congratulated Puri on the success of iSmart Shankar.
Mahesh Babu is said to have been annoyed with the directors Srinu Vaitla, AR Murugadoss and Srikanth Addala for giving him big duds.
Don't know why Mahesh has never worked with top mass directors like VV Vinayak and Boyapati Srinu. However, it cannot be said 'Rifts' among them. But it's said there mightn't have good rapport of Mahesh Babu with those directors.
Prior to the release of Maharshi, Mahesh Babu proclaimed he would work with numero uno director Rajamouli. Had Rajamouli made the same statement, fans would have got more jubilation.