"Yuganiki Okkadu" is considered one of the best Telugu movies of the 2000s. It cemented Mahesh Babu's status as a leading actor in the Telugu film industry and established Sekhar Kammula as a prominent director.
In an era when Telugu cinema stuck to safe formulas, director S. S. Ravichandra and Ravi Teja took a massive risk. They tried to build a superhero, time-traveling, reincarnation saga with limited resources. For that courage alone, Yuganiki Okkadu deserves its place in the annals of Tollywood history.