Though initially it was started as a remake of the Hindi film Agnisakshi, the story was modified after the Nepalese royal massacre involving King Dipendra.

All these climaxes were based on the thought process of the character Sigaev found in Anton Chekhov's 1887 short story An Avenger.

In the hotel where both of them stayed, an injured Deependra, a prince who recognize Devayani as his lover comes, hugs her and expresses his feelings.

He killed them because they had lied to him that if Devayani and Deependra were to marry, his parents would die as per the astrological predictions.

The first one is where Deependra thinks of shooting Ricky so that Devayani too can experience the sufferings of an unfulfilled love like he did.

The film was supposed to be directed by seven to eight different directors who backed out for various reasons before Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar was chosen.

[3] Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar had mentioned in an interview that, although he was credited as the director, he was not given much freedom on the sets and Upendra was the one who took decisions regarding the shoot of the movie.

Many audience members felt that the film was not Nagathahalli Chandrashekhar's genre movie, but that of Upendra's.

The film continued to storm the box office during its initial weeks, but failed to live up to the expectations and most of the fans were disappointed by the movie.

Superstar ended up becoming a below average grosser in Karnataka by running only for 6 weeks in its main centre in Bangalore.

The film was sold to distributors at a very high distribution price and got an extraordinary opening in its initial weeks, thus returning investment for the producer.

Although Superstar was just an average grosser in Karnataka, Stupid surprisingly turned out to be a hit in Andhra Pradesh by completing 100 days of run and its distributors in Andhra Pradesh earned fair profits from the movie.