Allu Arjun's rise as Pan-India star post Pushpa success

 
The humongous success of Allu Arjun starrer Pushpa: The Rise in Hindi version is a testimony to the Telugu actor's immense popularity among the mass belts in India.

A year and half back, on April 8, 2022, just a few weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nation-wide lockdown, South superstar Allu Arjun unveiled the first look of Pushpa: The Rise. It had a close-up shot of the actor in an unkempt look wearing a stained shirt. It took the internet by storm and reportedly accumulated a massive response with over 84,000 plus likes in just under 24 hours. It also became the most liked first look posters on Twitter in the given time frame. The first of the two-part film Pushpa released on December 17, and has now emerged as one of the biggest money-spinners of the year despite being a strictly regional film, with actors and technicians from the South. Despite the low pre-release buzz and stiff competition from one of Hollywood's biggest films of the year, Spider-Man: No Way Home, the Allu-Arjun starrer has done phenomenally well, even for Hindi version. According to trade analyst Manobala Vijayabal, the film has collected Rs 186.81 crore worldwide. But the interesting fact is that the Hindi version of the film has managed to earn a massive Rs 39.95 crore (till Monday) and is still going strong in it's second week despite Ranveer Singh's 83 which released last week. In terms of pan-India films, Pushpa opened better than Yash's KGF: Chapter 1 (2018), which had minted Rs 2 crore on its opening day, and around 40% lower than the first part of Baahubali which had a solo release in the pre-pandemic era (2015).