A poll conducted in Andhra Pradesh by the English news channel CNN-IBN in 2006 named that Chiranjeevi the most popular star of the Telugu Film Industry.
In 2002, Chiranjeevi was given the Samman Award for the Highest Income Tax Payer for the assessment year 1999-2000 by the Minister of State for Finance, Government of India. He was paid a remuneration of INR1.25 crores for the 1992 film Aapad Bandhavudu. The film made Chiranjeevi the highest paid actor in India at the time, catapulting him to hit the cover pages of noted national weekly magazines in India. News magazine The Week hailed him as "The new money machine". In 1987, he became the first south Indian actor to be invited to attend the 59th Academy Awards ceremony. The entertainment magazines Filmfare and India Today named him "Bigger than Bachchan", a reference to Bollywood’s Amitabh Bachchan. However, Pranam Khareedu was released earlier at the box office.
He made his acting debut in 1978, in the film Punadhirallu. Prior to politics, Chiranjeevi had worked primarily in Telugu cinema, including Tamil, Kannada and Hindi films. He is the Minister of State with independent charge for the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India. Chiranjeevi (born Konidala Siva Sankara Vara Prasad) is an Indian film actor, producer, politician and a member of the Indian National Congress.
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