An industry hit is actually meant by the movie which crosses the full run shares of the previous industry hit. It's a rare honour for any hero getting his film an industry hit status. There are many heroes in the history of 82 years of tollywood, who got retired having no industry hit into their credit. Megastar Chiranjeevi is the only hero in the history of tollywood, who is having 8 industry hits into his credit while latest industry hit is written on the name of Power Star Pawan Kalyan's 'Atharintiki Daredi' with Rs.81 crores world wide share. It remains to be seen which hero would give the new industry hit to tollywood and finds his place in the following industry hits list.
MOVIE'S NAME YEAR CAST FULL RUN SHARE
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Bhaktha Prahlada 1931 Munipalle Subbayya, Surabhi Kamalabhai 25K
Maalapilla 1938 Govindarajula Subbarao, Kanchanamala --
Bhaktha Pothana 1942 Chiththooru Nagayya --
Thyagayya 1946 Chiththooru Nagayya --
Baalaraju 1948 ANR, S.Varalakshmi --
Gunasundari 1949 Kasturi Sivarao, Sriranjani --
Keelugurram 1949 ANR, Anjali --
Pathala Bhairavi 1951 NTR, SVR, Malathi --
Devadasu 1953 ANR, Savitri --
Rojulu Marayi 1955 ANR, Savitri --
Mayabazar 1957 NTR, ANR, SVR, Savitri 0.75 Cr.
Lavakusha 1963 NTR, Anjali 1 Cr.
Dasara Bullodu 1971 ANR, Vanisri, Chandrakala 1.5 Cr.
Alluri Seetharamaraju 1974 Krishna, Vijaya Nirmala 2 Cr.
Adavi Ramudu 1977 NTR,Jayaprada, Jayasudha 3 Cr.
Premabhishekam 1981 ANR, Sridevi, Jayasudha 3.5 Cr.
Khaidi 1983 Chranjeevi, Madhavi 4 Cr.
Pasivadi Pranam 1987 Chranjeevi, Vijayasanthi 4.5 Cr.
Yamudiki Mogudu 1988 Chiranjeevi, Radha, Vijayasanthi 5 Cr.
Atthaku Yamudu 1989 Chiranjeevi, Vijayasanthi 5.25 Cr.
Muddula Mavayya 1989 Balakrishna, Vijayasanthi 5.5 Cr.
Jagadeka Veerudu 1990 Chiranjeevi, Sridevi 6 Cr.
Gang Leader 1991 Chirranjeevi, Vijayasanthi 7 Cr.
Chanti 1992 Venkatesh, Meena 9 Cr.
Gharana Mogudu 1992 Chiranjeevi, Nagma, Vani Viswanadh 10 Cr.
Pedarayudu 1995 Mohanbabu, Soundarya, Bhanupriya 12 Cr.
Samarasimha Reddy 1999 Balakrishna, Simran, Anjala Jhaveri 16 Cr.
Narasimha Naidu 2001 Balakrishna, Simran 22 Cr.
Khushi 2001 Pawan Kalyan, Bhumika 24 Cr.
Indra 2002 Chiranjeevi, Aarthi Agarwal, Sonali Bindre 33 Cr.
Pokiri 2006 Mahesh Babu, Ileana 36 Cr.
Magadheera( Telugu) 2009 Ram Charan, Kajal 78.35 Cr.
Atharintiki Daredi 2013 Pawan Kalyan, Samantha, Pranitha 81 Cr.
NB: Apart from the above movies,many movies created records in their 'run', while some more movies were proved to be trend setters and the collections of some more movies almost reached on par with the collections of their previous industry hits. However, they cannot be treated as 'industry hits', as they have not crossed the overall collections of their previous industry hits.