Mahesh Babu, the Prince of Tollywood and an evolving Super Star is considered as No 1 with back to back hits of 'Dookudu, Businessman and SVSC.' Never to undermine range of these hits, they really stood as inspirational building blocks for healthy competition to begin between our top young lot. Before Mahesh, many of our star heroes viz. Junior NTR, Pawan Kalyan, Prabhas etc were struggling with no hits under their belt or we can say, Tollywood was not shining so brightly as it used to be in the past.
Strictly speaking, 'Pokiri' and 'Dookudu' explored the unseen or virgin market potential of Telugu movies making Mahesh as true contender for No 1. Situations changed with in a while with Pawan's 'Gabbar Singh' or Prabhas's 'Mirchi' or Junior NTR's 'Baadshah' or Ramcharan's 'Rachcha, Naayak' nearing the business of Mahesh's stamina. Well, trade sources can no more consider of No 1 fight existing in Tollywood because each of our heroes are making the industry proud.