Directed by Koratala Siva, Acharya failed to impress, despite the fact that Telugu s most-hyped father-son duo Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan appeared together on screen. Furthermore, with Koratala Siva on board, the investors did not expect the film to be such a disaster.
A distributor named Rajgopal Bajaj has written to megastar Chiranjeevi, requesting that he compensate him for the significant losses caused by Acharya. The distributor, who released the Koratala Siva directorial in one of the prime areas, .