The massive success of Allu Arjun’s Pushpa: The Rise in Hindi is a testament to the Telugu actor’s enormous appeal in India’s mass belts. South superstar Allu Arjun presented the first look of Pushpa: The Rise a year and a half ago, on April 8, 2022, just weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed a nationwide lockdown. It featured a close-up photo of the performer, who was dressed unkemptly and wore a dirty shirt. It went viral and received over 84,000 likes in less than 24 hours, according to reports. In the period allotted, it also became the most liked first look poster on Twitter.
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Despite being a totally regional picture with actors and technicians from the South, the first of the two-part film Pushpa debuted on December 17 and has since become one of the year’s biggest moneymakers. Despite limited pre-release excitement and heavy competition from Spider-Man: No Way Home, one of Hollywood’s biggest pictures of the year, the Allu-Arjun blockbuster has done amazingly well, even in Hindi. According to a market expert. The film Manobala Vijayabal has grossed Rs 186.81 crore globally.
However, despite Ranveer Singh’s 83, which was released last week, the Hindi version of the film has managed to make a staggering Rs 39.95 crore (till Monday) and is still going strong in its second week. In terms of pan-India films, Pushpa did better than Yash’s KGF: Chapter 1 (2018), which made Rs 2 crore on its first day and was roughly 40% less than Baahubali: The Beginning, which had a solo release in the pre-pandemic era (2015).
