It is a well known fact that surprisingly Pelli Choopulu has become a blockbuster hit at the box office and set a benchmark for the upcoming low budget films. It received huge appreciation from everywhere and now it is honored with a prestigious award.
In Tollywood, the Shri B. Nagi Reddi Award usually given to good films, by B. Venkatramana Reddi as a memorial to his father B. Nagi Reddi for the past six years. Now, for the year 2016, Pelli Choopulu has received this Award and producer Raj Kandukuri is going to take it at the Shri B. Nagi Reddi Award ceremony which is going to held in Rajahmundry. The film was directed by Tharun Bhascker and it features Vijay Devarakonda and Ritu Varma in the lead roles.