In the wake of Senior director Dasari Narayan Rao also demanding “Bruce Lee” to be postponed, Telugu film industry is right now divided into two groups. One for the postponement and the other against it.  In fact, release date of “Bruce Lee” got confirmed 3 months ago as October 16th and the makers have stuck to it though onlookers doubted the competition and arrival of this Ram Charan’s film.

On the flip side, Gunasekhar got his “Rudramadevi” pushed from May 15th to 24th, then to couple of other dates in next months and finally declared October 9th as the date. Till a day before release, no one believed the film is actually releasing, and also Gunasekhar hasn’t made any requests to other biggies to give him space at box office.

Now that “Rudhramadevi” is doing well at box office, few bigheads took Guna’s side to ask Bruce Lee for a postponement. Industry biggies however say, if they pressurise Ram Charan to back out from race now, it will set a bad precedent. They ask, “Someone will confirm their date 6 months in advance, and in the last minute another film will arrive in front of it and demand postponement of latter. How long we could entertain such pleas?”

At the same time, there are those who express their sympathy with “Rudhramadevi”, and accusing that Ram Charan has no heart to say a sincere-talented-hardworking producer like Gunasekhar. Looking at all this, should we now ask, if Bruce Lee won’t get postponed, will sympathy lie with Gunasekhar or Ram Charan?

A big producer commented: “Knowing that Bruce Lee is coming on October 16th, Guna locked 9th as release date. So, he took a brave decision already. Let’s not make his decision cowardice by asking Charan to postpone. Even DVV Danayya invested a bomb and missing out festival season will bring him some losses, no matter what veterans say.

Yes, seasons are not needed to release films of big heroes, but to achieve big revenue targets, seasons are essential. Otherwise why big heroes like Pawan, Mahesh, Charan, Jr NTR and Bunny target festivals all the time?”

Already Charan shared his view that Gunasekhar is the one who came in the middle while they have planned out well. So, it’s upto Guna now, to demand Bruce Lee postponement or not.

Veteran actor and filmmaker Dasari Narayana Rao watched Rudhramadevi last night and was heavily impressed with the historical grandeur the film offered. Dasari himself organised a press meet this afternoon and heaped praises on the film’s star cast and the director.

Dasari, who is known for his occasionally startling comments on Mega family, drenched Allu Arjun with countless praises. Dasari said that Bunny had four fantastic entires in the film and that his introduction scene was outstanding, apart from the tower scene. Dasari said that Bunny looked like a true warrior in his Gona Ganna Reddy getup.

Not stopping here, Dasari also lauded Bunny for his voluntary offer of acting in the film and that he is a great inspiration for other stars in Tollywood. Dasari said that other stars should follow Bunny’s spirit for Tollywood’s wellbeing.

Talking about Anushka’s performance as Rudhramadevi, Dasari said that he used to think of Anushka only as a glamor doll until now but Anushka blew his mind away with her powerful and yet emotional performance as the warrior queen who struggles with her gender identity. Dasari further susrpised as he called Anushka as a ‘Mahanati’ and compared her with acting legends like Savithri, Vanisri, Jayasudha and Sujatha.

Yesterday morning, senior actor and filmmaker Dasari Narayana Rao sparked off numerous discussions regarding the release dates clash between the two big films of this Dasara season and said that Rudhramadevi would have created box-office history had the next week’s release (read Bruce Lee) is delayed by one week.

This prompted the crucial man who is related to both Rudhramadevi and Bruce Lee, Allu Arjun. Allu Arjun garnered appreciation for his brilliant performance as Gona Gannareddy in Rudhramadevi. Now, he has become the real-life Robin Hood as he took his cousin Ram Charan’s side in these testing moments.

In his words, Bunny tweeted, “It is unfair to blame the producer of BRUCELEE for not moving their release date by a week. They have announced it long back that their release date is October 16th. RUDRAMADEVI was supposed to release on September 4th which they could not for many reasons. Knowing the release date of BRUCELEE the producer of RUDHRAMADEVI released it on October 9th with a hope that both films can run in the market simultaneously. Now it is unfair for anyone to blame BRUCELEE for overlapping.”

This once again shows how matured and sportive Bunny is. While he seemingly looks to be taking his family’s side, Bunny also cleared the air regarding Bruce Lee overlapping with Rudhramadevi, whereas the real scenario is quite opposite. Needless to say, Bunny’s explanation will put an end to the topic for now.