Power Star Pawan Kalyan's blockbuster film Thammudu completed 21 years and entered 22nd year today. The film was released on 15th of July, 1999 and became a blockbuster.
Apart from rocking collections, the film received the accolades of critics then. Even today, Pawan Kalyan's fans rate Thammudu the best among all other films of their favourite star. Fans were admired by the original stunts of Pawan Kalyan in the film. The songs of the film including English song 'Look at my face in the mirror' still haunt music lovers.
Barring collections, Thammudu was considered even better film than then industry hit Samarasimha Reddy that hit screens for Sankranthi, 1999. Incidentally, Thammudu collected more than Samarasimha Reddy in A centres like Guntur. Also, Thammudu collected pretty good shares in B and C centres.
Altogether, Thammudu ran hundred days directly in 22 centres which is huge a young crazy star like Pawan Kalyan those days.
The blockbuster successes of Tholiprema, Thammudu and Badri made Pawan Kalyan earn an ultimate fan following among youth that made him deliver an industry hit Khushi beating the collections of previous IH Narasimha Naidu in subsequent days.