Late Akkineni Nageswara Rao was the recipient of maximum number of awards among the heroes of tollywood. However, he shared the number one place in tollywood along with late NTR for some years. But then, it was Megastar Chiranjeevi who won the maximum number of awards as a solo number one hero of tollywood. Given below are the details of awards received by Chiranjeevi and other top stars of tollywood.
ACTOR GOVT.OF INDIA NANDI FILMFARE OTHERS
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ANR PADMA VIBHUSHAN 02 02 DADA SAHEB, RAGHUPATHI,NTR,DR.(AU)
Chiranjeevi PADMA BHUSHAN 03 07 FILMFARE LEGEND,DR.(AU)
FILMFARE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
KRISHNA PADMA BHUSHAN 00 00 FILMFARE LIFETIME, NTR NATIONAL
NTR(LATE) PADMASRI 00 02 --
SOBHAN BABU -- 05 04 --
MAHESH BABU -- 03 04 --
KRISHNAMRAJU -- 02 04 --
VENKATESH -- 05 03 --
NAGARJUNA -- 03 02 --
BALAKRISHNA -- 02 00 --
ALLU ARJUN -- 00 02
PAWAN KALYAN -- 00 01 --
RAM CHARAN -- 00 01 --
JR NTR -- 00 01 --
* Superstars of different generations have only been considered for the above list.
* Chronological order of heroes was not maintained.
* Special jury awards, debut awards etc. have been ignored as they do not suit to the stature of above heroes.
* Nandi and Filmfare Awards have only been considered apart from Padma awards.