Success will hide all the loopholes and failures magnify even a minor mistake. It seems same thing is happening with the stunning success of Ram-Puri Jagannadh's iSmart Shankar.
It is known that iSmart Shankar got the flop flavor the moment it was announced. This because both Puri Jagannadh and Ram were bereft of hits for quite some time.
Many shied away from entertaining Puri and even Ram took his own sweet time before giving green signal to become iSmart Shankar. Many even warned Ram against doing film with Puri Jagannadh as his track record looked disastrous of late.
Ram however dared to take the risk. Even during the film making reports came that Ram had differences with Puri Jagannadh and producer Charmi. It was rumored that Ram was unhappy with the film's output and so Puri and Charmi stopped half of his remuneration.
Puri has been doing films on his own banner. However his debts increased with the financiers due to successive failures. Though iSmart Shankar did good pre release business, Puri and Charmi did not get cash in hand. So they were forced to stop Ram's remuneration.
Ram with doubts on the film's result and also with no remuneration, flew to Europe ahead of the release. But the film despite the negative reviews started showing its power at B, C centers and Puri and Team came out of all the problems.
Puri and team decided to share profits with Ram giving him due credit. So Ram cut short his Europe vacation and came back to Hyderabad recently. He is now taking part in success celebrations.
Ram, Puri and Chartmi will team up once again for iSmart Shankar sequel titled Double iSmart.