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Mahesh Babu, Soundarya combo missed due to this. Mahesh Babu had a dream debut with Rajakumarudu and scored a resounding hit. Many directors used to show interest in directing Mahesh Babu as happened to be the son of Super Star Krishna.
At that time, SV.Krishna Reddy readied a beautiful story suited for Mahesh Babu. The film was supposed to star Soundarya as the female lead.
But it did not take off as Mahesh Babu opted out of the project. The film happens to be Yamaleela. SV.Krishna Reddy planned Yamaleela with Mahesh Babu and Soundarya and met Krishna at that time. However Krishna rejected saying Mahesh was too small to handle such a big subject and do not want to take the undue risk.
Mahesh was at that time 19 years and Soundarya was 22 years and Krishna told as there was age gap, he asked Krishna Reddy to do the film with other actors. Yamaleela starred Ali, Indraja and Kaikala Satyanarayana and turned out to be a blockbuster.