When SS Rajamouli made Magadheera with a popular star, film critics along with Tollywood big heads said the film became a success because of the lead actor and not because of SSRM. Well, they said so for their own selfish reasons so as to appease the big heads in order to sustain in the industry.
But this took to the nutts of SSRM. He took an oath to make 2 movies one with a less glamour comedy star as lead and another with a fly as lead and make them successful.
He accomplished what he wanted - all the critics of Magadhira understood they were wrong. The success of Magadhira was attributed back to SSRM.
In fact there is no failed project in SSRM's CV.