4 min readKochiUpdated: Apr 19, 2026 09:44 PM IST Arguably one of the biggest stars in Indian cinema at the moment, Allu Arjun has collected about Rs 2,361.55 crore globally from just three movies — Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo, Pushpa: The Rise, and Pushpa 2: The Rule — that he has done since 2020, according to industry tracker Sacnilk. For over a year, his Pushpa 2 ranked as the third-highest-grossing Indian film worldwide before it was dethroned by director Aditya Dhar’s Ranveer Singh-led Dhurandhar: The Revenge recently. Aside from the massive box-office pull, he is also the sole Telugu star to have won the National Film Award for Best Actor, which he earned for Pushpa: The Rise. A member of the Allu-Konidela family, Arjun is a product of nepotism, and his first-ever movie appearance was as a child artiste in director A Kodandarami Reddy’s Vijetha (1985), bankrolled by his father, Allu Aravind, and starring his maternal uncle, Telugu megastar Chiranjeevi. Director K Raghavendra Rao’s Gangotri (2003), which marked Allu Arjun’s debut as a lead actor, was also …