Mother sentiment is forever an evergreen point to sale in Telugu cinema. Irrespective of innumerable films flooded into industry, still there is a valid space for same emotion to be successful if played with a different narrative. For all those, who have found out a parallelism between Rajamouli and Prabhas two films Chatrapathi and Baahubali, the answer for same can be found in Prabhas, Vinayak combo Yogi.
Yes, Yogi was remake of a proven subject lifted from a blockbuster Kannada flick. Having known about the capabilities of Vinayak in juicing the heroism on macho Prabhas, everyone including trade sources speculated on Yogi to evolve as a super hit but unfortunately it was declared a big dud.
In complete contrast, though there are striking resemblances between Chatrapathi and Baahubali made on a similar time tested mother sentiment formula, results are strikingly positive for both of them. So, it’s not the subject… how a director treats it and presents the same on screen with smooth screenplay is the deciding factor.