If you look at TFI history, NTR and ANR fought it out to be No.1 from 1955, when they first became rival stars till 1981-82, when they had to slow down due to the age.
Superstar Krishna, Sobhan Babu, Krishnam Raju entered into the Industry as their fans and became top heroes but they couldn't really cross their star power even though they had dominated few years, here and there. Seniors could come back stronger with bigger box office hits than them.
Krishna after 1982 till 1986, had a strong hold on No.1 position despite Chiranjeevi's emergence as star hero in 1983 with Khaidi. From 1987, even Superstar had to bow down to the latest sensation back then, who turned into Supreme hero and Megastar later.
He did not have it easy at the box office race though, once senior directors and trade rated him as indisputable at box office. He faced tough competition from Balakrishna, Nagarjuna and Venkatesh from 1988 as emerging stars.
Nagarjuna and Venkatesh could give him competition till 2000, but mass image of Balakrishna increased ten folds with Samarasimha Reddy and Narasimha Naidu films that Chiranjeevi vs Balakrishna became real mass battle at the box office while other two did not have much impact in the fight in 2000's even though they never lost glamour.
There is one director, who could give all of them successful films at very important junctures of their careers till 1997, other than K. Raghavendra Rao.
Dasari Narayana Rao interestingly made just one film each with Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna but gave them hits. Balakrishna acted in the director's 150th film and Venkatesh after his initial films, never collaborated with him again.
So, we are talking about Kodandarami Reddy, who made above 90 films and 27 films with Chiranjeevi, 6 films with Nagarjuna, 10 with Balakrishna and 4 with Venkatesh.
His movies became highly successful for Chiranjeevi and actually made him the box office star he became as he directed Khaidi, Vijetha which gave him great base and then many more to consolidate it.
Balakrishna had mixed fortunes with him but many hits. Nagarjuna got mass masala hits in his direction and Venkatesh too could deliver hits. Hence, all of them came together to celebrate his 70th birthday, except for Nagarjuna who is in Switzerland shooting for Manamadhudu-2.
Those photos are trending on social media. Paruchuri Brothers, K. Raghavendra Rao, Allu Aravind, B. Gopal, Chanti Addala and several others participated in the event.
Superstar Krishna, Sobhan Babu, Krishnam Raju entered into the Industry as their fans and became top heroes but they couldn't really cross their star power even though they had dominated few years, here and there. Seniors could come back stronger with bigger box office hits than them.
Krishna after 1982 till 1986, had a strong hold on No.1 position despite Chiranjeevi's emergence as star hero in 1983 with Khaidi. From 1987, even Superstar had to bow down to the latest sensation back then, who turned into Supreme hero and Megastar later.
He did not have it easy at the box office race though, once senior directors and trade rated him as indisputable at box office. He faced tough competition from Balakrishna, Nagarjuna and Venkatesh from 1988 as emerging stars.
Nagarjuna and Venkatesh could give him competition till 2000, but mass image of Balakrishna increased ten folds with Samarasimha Reddy and Narasimha Naidu films that Chiranjeevi vs Balakrishna became real mass battle at the box office while other two did not have much impact in the fight in 2000's even though they never lost glamour.
There is one director, who could give all of them successful films at very important junctures of their careers till 1997, other than K. Raghavendra Rao.
Dasari Narayana Rao interestingly made just one film each with Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna but gave them hits. Balakrishna acted in the director's 150th film and Venkatesh after his initial films, never collaborated with him again.
So, we are talking about Kodandarami Reddy, who made above 90 films and 27 films with Chiranjeevi, 6 films with Nagarjuna, 10 with Balakrishna and 4 with Venkatesh.
His movies became highly successful for Chiranjeevi and actually made him the box office star he became as he directed Khaidi, Vijetha which gave him great base and then many more to consolidate it.
Balakrishna had mixed fortunes with him but many hits. Nagarjuna got mass masala hits in his direction and Venkatesh too could deliver hits. Hence, all of them came together to celebrate his 70th birthday, except for Nagarjuna who is in Switzerland shooting for Manamadhudu-2.
Those photos are trending on social media. Paruchuri Brothers, K. Raghavendra Rao, Allu Aravind, B. Gopal, Chanti Addala and several others participated in the event.