
The crazy star of tollywood actually thought of directing movies, however his big brother chiranjeevi and his wife surekha explained to him well that he is more of a hero material than a director. So, he started his career as an actor. The actor who started his acting journey with ‘Akkadammayi Ikkadabbayi’ movie rose to fame just with his second film.
Though his very first movie with EVV Satyanarayana was a flop, his second movie ‘Gokulamlo Sita’, which is an official remake of ‘Gokulati Siti’ stood as a blockbuster. The dialogue writer of this movie Posani Krishnamurali in the press meet of the film called pawan kalyan as power star and that is where the power star title came from.
Later many news dailys wrote pawan Kalyan’s name with the power star title in the front. And in his third film, ‘Suswagatham’, his name was titled as power star pawan kalyan in the credits list.