Sridevi looking gorgeous in
S.P. Parasuram. This unexpected flop of Telugu superstars Sridevi and Chiranjeevi took everyone by surprise. Released in the summer of '94 (15 June 1994 to be exact), the magical combo of the blockbuster pair of Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari (1990), was expected to deliver an instant hit. At that time, JVAS was the biggest success of Telugu cinema - the audience's expectation and anticipation was huge as the stars kept them waiting for nearly four years before working together again. The film opened to packed houses in record numbers and then... nose-dived.
Now, 28 years later, there's an interesting post-script. Avid.. or should we rabid?.. fans of the two stars are suddenly rewriting the box office palimpsest. Claiming the film to be a huge success, we've seen this false report in several social media accounts and unedited blogs.
Um. No. S.P. Parasuram was not a hit.
You can't suddenly make up facts about box office figures! Sridevi and Chiranjeevi have spoken about how taken aback they were when the film didn't work - noting that the audience wanted something else, and not the cop drama when their fantasy film had done such wonders in the past.
Oh well. You can't win them all!
