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In the wake of the failures of Sainikudu (2006) and Athidhi (2007), Babu took a long-term break from cinema for personal reasons. The film became the highest-grossing Telugu film of all time, and according to Vogue India, cemented Babu's reputation as a "superstar". In 2006, he played a gangster in the Puri Jagannadh-directed action-thriller Pokiri. Afterwards, his career stagnated until successes like Murari (2001), Okkadu (2003) and Athadu (2005) brought him fame. Following his role as the titular protagonist in Balachandrudu (1990) while still a child, his career went on hiatus so he could concentrate on his education until taking on his first lead role as an adult in the 1999 film Raja Kumarudu, for which he won the Nandi Award for Best Male Debut. He continued to perform as a child actor in several films, most of which featured his father Krishna. He first appeared in the 1979 film Needa when he was four years old. Mahesh Babu is an Indian actor known for his work in Telugu cinema. Babu at the audio launch of Selvandhan, the Tamil dubbed version of Srimanthudu, in 2015