Megastar Chiranjeevi starrer Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu directed by Anil Ravipudi, the Hit Machine, released to a thunderous positive response, yesterday. The early premieres have proved to be a master stroke by the makers as family audiences came out on Sunday premiers paving way for a sensational Day 1, despite Monday release.
On a weekday, that too, during pre-festival season, the bookings will be low and the movie needs a high positive response and a great amount of anticipation for it to produce record breaking numbers. The combination hype for Megastar Chiranjeevi and blockbuster director Anil Ravipudi has been full-on display on Day 1. With premiers and Day 1, the movie collected Rs.84+ crores gross worldwide, breaking previous highest for Megastar Chiranjeevi, Sye Raa Narsimha Reddy, by a margin.
The movie has sold a record tumbling 488.32k tickets on the weekday Monday in Telugu States. This is pure demonstration of star power by a regional family entertainer without any Pan-India hype and buzz. In North America, just with premieres and Day 1, the movie is set to cross US$2 Million as premieres only, yielded US$1.5 Million, highest ever in Megastar’s illustrious career.
Anil Ravipudi mastered in crafting entertainers that suit family audiences and Megastar Chiranjeevi’s charisma took it to next level. MSG is set to rule the Sankranti box office as trade analysts are predicting even bigger numbers during the festival weekend as family audiences are walking in to theatres in huge numbers. Victory Venkatesh has played an extended cameo in the film with Nayanthara in leading lady role. Sahu Garapati and Sushmita Konidela have produced this massive family entertainer.
