Who is a successful politician? He is not the one who just wins the election battle but loses his power to others. He is the one who not only just wins the election battle but gets himself proved the best administrator having a command among the party's leaders and all the departments.
In such sense, late NTR can be said a failure politician. And this is asserted by not his rivals but his own son Natasimham Nandamuri Balakrishna with NTR Mahanayakudu and NTR's hardcore fan RGV with Lakshmi's NTR.
Having gone through overlay view of NTR Mahanayakudu and lakshmi's NTR with their trailers, it is understood that the directors of both the films depicted how NTR was backstabbed by his close aides.
In NTR Mahanayakudu's trailer, Nadendla Bhaskara Rao was shown as a backstabber. He sends NTR and Basavaramatarakam to abroad with quite pleasing words and then occupies the power as a CM.
In Lakshmi's NTR, RGV canned how Chandrababu Naidu backstabbed NTR.
Altogether, 'Backstabbing' becomes the key material and theme for both NTR Mahanayakudu and Lakshmi's NTR. A wise, sensible and clever politician never gets backstabbed by others. But then, NTR was backstabbed twice. As such, both the films give us the broad view that NTR is a failure politician.