Sankranti festival witnessed bitter Star wars between Super Star Mahesh Babu's Sarileru Neekevvaru and Stylish Star Allu Arjun's Ala Vaikunthapurramloo. Both the stars and makers of these two films right from the start fought bitterly for supremacy at the box office. They were adamant on the release date which for resolved only by the Telugu Producers’ Guild. When many expected the war to end, it very snowballed into a bigger one.
Fans of both the stars, started fighting over the films collections and they even started trending hashtags such as #FakeQueen-MaheshBabu, #FakingKaBaap-AlluArjun and @AlluArjun-AmmaMoguduMB insulting other stars.
Siddharth, young Hero who got shocked said “#FakingKaBaap-AlluArjun and #FakeQueen-MaheshBabu are trending in #Telugu twitter. Lakhs of tweets. God save our cinema. What’s wrong with these people? Shameful (sic),”
A top producer on anonymity revealed the secret behind the bitter Star wars. He said “The fans have divided themselves into the Kapu and Kamma communities, with some of the BCs backing the Kamma community. It’s a dangerous precedent to the Telugu cinema.”