Megastar Chiranjeevi and Nandamuri Balakrishna have been competitors for many years, though Balakrishna had some good Blockbusters and even industry hits to his name, Chiranjeevi had the upper hand overall and is regarded as the undisputed number one hero.
Though Chiranjeevi left the movie industry for a few years, Balakrishna couldn’t take the position of Chiranjeevi because of his poor selection of scripts and directors.
After coming back to the industry, Megastar Chiranjeevi delivered a non-Baahubali industry hit in terms of pre-business and collections with Khaidi no 150. With that, not only fans but everyone felt the Megastar is still in no1 race and He is not like other senior heroes.
Trade circles felt that he can compete with the current generation stars also. Even his next movie Syeraa Narasimha Reddy had done excellent pre-business and received good collections. After that Acharya had excellent pre-business but it turned out to be a big failure with the openings being disastrous.
On the other hand, Balakrishna delivered a big blockbuster with Akhanda and put up crazy lineups next. After Acharya Chiranjeevi’s Godfather business was not on par with other leading Heros and the collections too were almost equal to the opening day numbers of leading star Heros.
Normally Chiranjeevi movies’ pre-business will be more than double or triple that of Balakrishna movies. Now even in competition Balakrishna’s movie Veera Simha reddy is doing 80% of the business of Chiranjeevi’s Waltair veerayya.
Some fans are feeling that the business of Waltair Veeraya is not in the range of Megastar and they even are in a feeling now Balakrishna May cross Chiranjeevi next year. But some fans and trade circles think that every movie cannot have a huge pre-release business like Pan India movies.
Another argument is that because there’s heavy competition for Sankranthi 2023, the business should be done with the right calculations and not for the sake of the hero’s image, which is true.
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