One of the popular media groups, CNN-IBN released the list of men who changed the face of Indian films for the last 100 years of Indian cinema. Chiranjeevi is the only Telugu hero to be included in the list. Many other eminent personalities from bollywood to kollywood were included in the list such as, Ashok Kumar, Prithvi Raj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Ameer Khan, Sivaji Ganeshan, MG Ramachandran, Rajnikanth, Kamal Haasan, Raj Kumar etc.
"Biggest star of Telugu cinema, Chiranjeevi started his career playing the antagonist in few films and slowly started playing the lead. By the mid 1980s, Chiranjeevi was the undisputed king of Telugu cinema.", says CNN-IBN.