It was a known fact that Superstar Mahesh Babu had huge hopes on his last release, the action-packed entertainer SPYder directed by Tamil director AR Murugadoss, and costarring Rakul Preet Singh, which had him playing an intelligence agent Shiva. However, the film failed big time at the box office.
The film incurred huge losses of more than 70 crores, with both the Telugu and Tamil versions of the movie failing Badly, not even recovering the investment, and also receiving poor critical reviews, unlike Mahesh Babu's previous biggest disaster One Nenokkadine which won favorable reviews and failed at the box office with heavy losses.
With such a scenario, SPYder was premiered on television for the first time on Sankranthi occasion in Zee Telugu, and the film turned out to be a huge disaster on small screens as well, as the film received a very low viewership, and received a poor TRP rating of 6.7, which is an all-time low for a biggie. However, it must be noted that, at the same time, Nirmala convent starring newbie Roshan got a TRP of 8.1.
