Superstar Mahesh Babu has reacted to the recently happened controversy on one of the posters from the film. Heroine Samantha said in a social networking site that it was regressive and it created a whole lot of brouhaha all over. Camps were formed with a section finding nothing wrong in it and others finding it objectionable. Speaking on it Mahesh Babu said that there was nothing undignified in it and the unit is sorry if its came across like that. It’s part of song and may be when seen in isolation it might have given such an impression, the actor said.

The actor also earlier clarified that 1 in the title has nothing to do about him peddling as number 1 star or such likes rather the title was named as such because the script. One would know the reasoning behind the title when one sees the film, said the star of 1 Nenokkadine. The film according to the actor is a very exciting subject, something that is never seen before in Telugu cinema and that is the reason he accepted the subject in the very first narration itself. 1 Nenokkadine hits the screens on January 10, 2014 worldwide.