Pawan Kalyan’s They Call Him OG Smashes Box Office on Day One
The storm has arrived. Pawan Kalyan’s They Call Him OG finally hit the screens. And it didn’t just arrive. It roared.
According to trade tracker Sacnilk, the film collected ₹32 crore on Day 1 in India. Early worldwide estimates are close to ₹150 crore, an opening that Telugu cinema has rarely seen. Numbers that feel less like stats and more like history in the making.
Industry experts point at three things. The hype. The timing. And the man himself—Pawan Kalyan. His fan base didn’t wait. They flooded theatres. From Hyderabad to Vizag, from New Jersey to Dubai. Tickets gone. Seats packed. Cheers louder than the speakers.
The background matters here. Sujeeth directs. DVV Danayya produces. And the promos had already painted OG as more than a film. It was a comeback. It was politics meeting cinema. It was Kalyan’s aura colliding with audience hunger. No wonder the advance bookings cracked records before the first show even began.
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Fans are calling it a festival. “It’s not just a movie, it’s our pride,” shouted a group outside a Hyderabad theatre. In Vizag, young fans waved OG posters like flags. A student in Chennai said, “We bunked college just to watch the first show. Worth it.” Overseas too, the craze spilled. In New Jersey, a fan tweeted, “Never saw this energy for any Telugu film in the US. OG is fire.”
And the impact? It’s not just about box office. It’s cultural. It’s emotional. People in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are treating it like a celebration. Overseas premieres turned into mini-festivals.
Analysts predict new benchmarks for Telugu films worldwide. Some even say, this might become Pawan Kalyan’s defining cinematic moment.
One thing is clear. OG is not just a movie. It’s an event. And it has only just begun.