Both ‘Shakti’ and ‘Badrinath’ are made with similar story lines and similar budgets but the results are dissimilar. Quite a coincidence is that, Junior NTR and Allu Arjun were the only saviors for the films as direction, story and script hasn’t helped the lavish budget spent by wonderful producers. Then result is negative talk prevailed in market from the first day of release. From here on story and fates are different.
While Geetha Arts is aggressively promoting ‘Badrinath’ without showing spine, ‘Shakti’ team never co-operated with producer in helping his trials to pull the movie to an average grosser. If dedication is the only word from Geetha camp still making ‘Badrinath’ to sustain the second week collections, by fifth and sixth day ‘Shakti’ pitifully died. Well, now Tarak is heard to be expressing his anger on Aswini Dutt & Co. for making ‘Shakti’ severely suffer at BO without going for any combative promotion. Hmmm…is Tarak feeling the heat of jealous with ‘Badrinath’ as a comparison is inevitable with ‘Shakti’?