Many people now assert nani is now in Tier 1 after witnessing the massive dasara receipts on Day 1. Although the natural star meets all requirements to be in Tier 1, it is still too early to proclaim him to be among the brightest stars. One should not consider a single movie's opening day performance to be a rank one qualification. We've seen nani before with MCA, which had numbers for an opening that were on par with tier 1 openings.
No one can merely break their opening record and move up to Tier 1; they must be consistent and keep beating it. Despite poor box office results, tier 1 stars like Pawan Kalyan, Mahesh Babu, NTR, ram Charan, Allu Arjun, and prabhas have only seen their star power and reputation grow with each new movie. Years of brand development have led to the buzz surrounding their films and the craze for movie rights, and nani or any other hero requires constant big openers and hits to do that.
