Brahmotsavam is one rare film that has been more talked about after its release than before its release. Such is the magnitude of its failure. The biggest paradox is that it has been roundly slammed by that section of the audience at which the film was targeted: Family audience. Taking stock of things is a matter of course for the makers of any flop movie. While Mahesh, PVP and Srikanth Addala must have done a dispassionate analysis post release, we at IndiaGlitz would like to ponder over this question: Did Mahesh Babu fall into a trap?

To put matters in perspective, a superstar like Mahesh wouldn't have chosen this script if he knew it had no exciting element. In short, South India's one of the biggest stars must have believed that there is something in the story line that is EXCITING. He was surely not carried away by ingredients like family emotions and the prospect of romancing two divas. Just what did he find exciting about the script? Our hunch is that he saw commercial value and wit in the idea of Bala Tripuramani (Kajal Aggarwal) walking out of the male lead's life, post which Sathya Raj's dream 'kodalu' enters the scene co-incidentally after his untimely death. To be fair to the writer in Addala, it's indeed a nice idea to have such a girl (played by Samantha) blithely travel with the hero in his journey of discovery (or even self-discovery, if Gollapudi Maruthi Rao's punch line suggests).

It's another matter that the idea fell flat in a film with no brilliant saleable ideas otherwise. Mahesh did fall into a trap - a tantalizing trap at that. As they say, it happens!