As of now director puri Jagannath is considered as one of the top directors in Tollywood. Since puri Jagannath started making films, the number of fans for directors has also increased. puri Jagannath can be described as the first director to get star status in Tollywood.
There is no big hero in tollywood who has not done a movie with him till now. puri Jagannath also started his career with a big hero. He started his career with the movie badri starring pawan kalyan as the hero.
Already receiving super hits with good movies, pawan kalyan was already a star of his own style. In the days leading up to Chiranjeevi's younger brother's image of power star, puri Jagannath told his close friend Chhota K Naidu that he had a story for pawan kalyan and that it would be good if he made it into a movie.
Purijagannath told a story to pawan kalyan and made a movie with him. The twist here is that the story of Itlu sravani Subrahmanyam was told to ravi teja and the story of badri was told to Pawan Kalyan.
In order to impress Chhota K Naidu, Itlu sravani Subramaniam told the story and pawan kalyan took the first telugu film chance and convinced everyone that badri is right for his body language ad style.
