May be Mahesh should rethink on his story seledtion, sick and tired of his movies. Maharshi is just remix of Bharat ane nenu and srimanthudu. Frankly there isn't much to enjoy in the movie, it is purely based on Mahesh's past success formula i.e millionaire going back to his roots and helping the poor.
You should be patient enough to endure the duration of the movie, songs will doze you off, you have to try hard to be awake.
Need not talk about direction I feel it's not worthy of talking. Movie would have been much better if director sticked to one particular aspect, movie is about a ambitious guy moving to US later on coming back for his friend taking up his problems and then trying to fix all the farmers problems in India, too much off a shift to digest.
Finally it's a monotonous movie purely for Mahesh fans. Hope Mahesh makes some promising scripts in furture.