Unlike heroes from Mega, Nandamuri and other top influential families in Tollywood, the debut of Prabhas wasn’t a fancy affair. When he had started, he wasn’t as big as his peers were. Yet Prabhas has turned things all around in his favour.
First romantic Varsham brought him closer to youths. With Chatrapathi he penetrated into masses. Later he became ‘Darling’ to women, subsequently he was the ‘Mr Perfect’ for families. Eventually, he cemented his stardom with Mirchi and what followed was Baahubali. The magnum opus has made Prabhas a huge star and in fact, he has become a national icon. He won hearts of Gen X, Gen Y and Gen Z cutting across regions, communities. Even kids, teenagers are having him as DPs, profile pictures and that shows it all. Baahubali boosted the further rise of Prabhas & his fan base.
Since he is now readying for the release of Baahubali : The Conclusion, it’s right time for Prabhas to plan his future to be the next No.1 hero in Tollywood. As no star in the industry right now is giving hits consistently, it’s perfect phase for him to further strengthen his stardom.
With the last films of the two biggest stars Pawan Kalyan, Mahesh Babu (Sardaar Gabbar Singh, Brahmotsavam), that released amidst huge hype, have tanked at the BO, and as Pawan already announced his exit from films and enter into politics, if Prabhas could maintain the momentum from now onwards, easily he’d be on the top spot.
And what many don’t know is that Prabhas has already chalked out a perfect strategy to be the No.1. But there’s a major challenge lies here for Prabhas.
It can be noted that almost all the stars’ have had delivered flops with their immediate films after working with SS Rajamouli. From Ram Charan (Orange after Magadheera) to Jr NTR (Andhrawala After Simhadri ) to Nani (YVM, Paisa After Eega) have all seen failures post working with Rajamouli. Prabhas is well aware of this as he himself experienced after the success of Chatrapathi – Pournami, Yogi, Munna.
And right now, Prabhas has very good chance. With Mirchi, Baahubali under his belt, this is best chance for him. If he lose it now after Baahubali, it may take many years for him to get such opportunity again to become No.1. So, Prabhas needs to get it very right for this. It may not be possible for him unless he has good guiding and strong backing like how other stars have. What Prabhas requires now is mentoring him in the right path.
Taking this into account, Prabhas has already begun working on a master plan for his up next films. And as part of this he roped in experienced producers who’re best and consistently successful at the same time whom he can trust on. There’s no better choice than UV Creations’ who’s been churning out promising films with good scripts and smart marketing. Since his next films after Baahubali too in association with UV – Bhagmati & Prabhas 19 with Sujeeth (of Run Raja Run fame), it’s evident that Prabhas is targeting No.1 rank in Tollywood.