A poll conducted by CNN-IBN in 2006 named Chiranjeevi the most popular star of the Telugu film industry. He is the first Indian actor to start a personal website on internet.
In 2002, Chiranjeevi was given the Samman Award for being the highest Income Tax payer for the 1999–2000 assessment year by the Minister of State for Finance. He was paid ₹1.25 crore, the highest fee for any Indian actor, for the 1992 film Aapadbandhavudu. News magazine The Week hailed him as "the new money machine". The entertainment magazines Filmfare and India Today named him "Bigger than Bachchan", a reference to Bollywood's Amitabh Bachchan. It made Chiranjeevi the highest-paid actor in India at the time catapulting him to the cover pages of national weekly magazines in India.
The film was screened at the 1993 International Film Festival of India in the mainstream section. Ĭhiranjeevi's 1992 film Gharana Mogudu, is the first south Indian film to collect over ₹10 crore at the box office. In 1988, he co-produced Rudraveena which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration. Chiranjeevi won the 1988 Indian Express Best Actor Award and the state Nandi Award for Best Actor awards for his performance in the film. In 1987, he starred in Swayamkrushi which was dubbed into Russian and was screened at the Moscow International Film Festival. However, Pranam Khareedu was released earlier at the box office.
Ĭhiranjeevi began his acting career in 1978 with Punadhirallu. He served as the Minister of Tourism for the Government of India from 20. In 2006, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award, for his contributions to Indian cinema and was presented with an honorary doctorate from Andhra University. In a film career spanning over four decades, he won three Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Awards, a Raghupathi Venkaiah Award, and nine Filmfare Awards South. Chiranjeevi starred in over 150 feature films in Telugu, as well as some films in Hindi, Tamil and Kannada. Chiranjeevi (born Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad 22 August 1955) is an Indian actor, film producer and former politician, who predominantly works in Telugu cinema.
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