In his upcoming episode of Unstoppable on Aha, Allu Arjun tells Nandamuri Balakrishna that he was shocked that no Telugu actor had ever won a National Award. What he said can be loosely articulated as this: "One day, I tried to learn about the list of Telugu actors who had won a National Award in the Best Actor category. None of them had won one. This deeply impacted me. From that day on, I set my sights on securing a National Award."
So far, so good. Right?!
Not if you take into consideration his interview with a news daily soon after he was given the award in 2023. In the interview, Allu Arjun spoke about how he was totally surprised that he was the first recipient of the National Award in the history of Telugu cinema. "I was under the assumption that at least a handful of Telugu actors must have received the Award," Bunny told Eenadu.
