Mahesh babu, introduced to Telugu cinema as a Son of Ex-Gen Super star Krishna. Coming to the point, Despite of Mahesh worked Most of his career with Star Directors, He is not that Bad actor.
But Mahesh's comfort zone of acting is Subtle. Till athadu despite of acting loud is not his cup of tea but still he managed. But once after he got clicked with his comfort zone of subtle action, then he confined himself with it. This made things go wrong for him. His contemporaries like Pawan Kalyan, who is basically introvert for whom subtle action is a comfort zone but He got clicked with his flamboyant performances. So he had to jump out of his comfort zone to perform. Some times in the films like Panja, Suswagatham, he did his comfort zone performances, where as Mahesh jumped out of his comfort zone in the films like Khaleja and aagadu. but as those films failed, he again went back to comfort zone, this made his things go worse in tamil when spyder release. Telugu audience were habituated with his style of action, despite those doesn't include much expressions. but Tamil audience, despite they liked Spyder much but Mahesh got negative marks.
Even some of the North indian audience who liked Mahesh looks, over the time they started criticizing his acting skills as Single Expression star. Mahesh was rumored to have beaten by Krishna Vamsi and Teja in his initial days for his unavoidable subtle action. Even before Spyder, rumors circulated that ARM called of the shoot, getting irritated with Mahesh's expressions. Definitely above all are just rumors, Mahesh is definitely a Brilliant actor and he has to come out of his comfort zone at least in Bharat anu Nenu to show some variation.
