Last Friday saw the launch of two of Bollywood’s most talked about stars, Sooraj Pancholi and Athiya Shetty, who made their filmy debut with the remake of Bollywood Superstar Salman Khan’s 1983 film with the same name, Hero. The film opened to scathing reviews from critics and even the audiences did not give into Salman’s aggressive promotions for these stars.
But, this young star couple and the film now has some strong support from our very own Tollywood star, none other than Superstar Mahesh Babu. This afternoon, Mahesh tweeted appreciating the film, “Saw ‘hero ‘. Thanks to salman for giving the industry 2 promising stars Suraj Pancholi and Athiya shetty. Congratulations to the entire team ..a job well done :).”
While Mahesh’s unexpected tweets indeed surprised everyone, there could be more than these appreciative tweets to the whole story. For the last couple of weeks, rumors of Salman Khan buying Hindi remake rights of Mahesh’s latest blockbuster, Srimanthudu. Mahesh is one of the producers of the film, and it could be a friendly gesture in turn by Mahesh to lend his supporting hand to the young stars being promoted by Salman.