Ravi Teja walked into Chiranjeevi's place this week not to pitch anything, just to be congratulated. Megastar Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan sat down with Ravi Teja, director Shiva Nirvana, and Mythri Movie Makers producers Naveen Yerneni and Y. Ravi Shankar to mark Irumudi's run at the box office, and pictures from the meeting are already doing the rounds online.

There's no official readout of what got discussed. What we do know is that Chiranjeevi had already gone public with praise for Ravi Teja's performance before this meeting even happened, so this felt less like a first reaction and more like a formal victory lap.

Irumudi opened on August 21 and has stayed in the conversation since, largely on word of mouth rather than a marketing blitz. The emotional family drama stars Ravi Teja opposite Priya Bhavani Shankar, with child actor Baby Nakshathra and Sai Kumar rounding out the cast. GV Prakash Kumar scored the film, and Shiva Nirvana directs.

The numbers don't quite agree, but the story's the same

Here's where it gets a little messy, in the way Telugu box office reporting often does. 123telugu put the worldwide gross at over ₹225 crore. Telugu Bulletin's figure runs higher, somewhere between ₹230 crore and ₹288 crore worldwide. Neither outlet cites a distributor statement or a verified tracker for the exact number, so treat the top end with some caution. What both agree on, without hedging, is that this is one of the biggest hits of Ravi Teja's career, full stop.

That's a real thing to say about an actor who's spent the better part of three decades as Tollywood's reliable mass hero without quite landing a solo number this size. Irumudi appears to have done it on the strength of its emotional core rather than its scale, which is its own kind of validation for Shiva Nirvana, who's built a name on exactly that kind of storytelling.

For Mythri Movie Makers, this is another line added to an already strong year. The banner has been on something of a streak, and a Chiranjeevi-Ram Charan photo-op is the sort of thing that gets circulated by the production house itself, which it did, through Mythri's official social handles.

The film isn't done making news either way. 123telugu reports Irumudi is set to premiere on Netflix on September 18, 2026, across multiple languages, which would put it in front of an audience well beyond what it's already reached in theatres. If that date holds, the real test of how far this word-of-mouth wave travels starts in less than a week.