People don't know the impact of Shiva. I stood in the queue at 5 AM in the morning to get the tickets, which was surely not happened before.It completely transformed the the way Telugu movies were made.
In September of 1989, there were some posters coming up here and there that showed
a stern-looking young man crossing a railway track, with 4 hockey stick and chain
yielding men standing behind, looking on. That has got to be one of the most impactful
visuals ever if measured by how many persons' eyes and curiosity it caught. The
young man was Nagarjuna, and the posters were for the film Shiva, which went on
to become probably the biggest hit that we know of in Telugu movies.
Shiva spawned a mass hysteria: people were standing in queues for over 5 hours for ti....