Chiranjeevi's works such as the comedy thriller, "Chantabbai", the Vigilante thriller, "Kondaveeti Donga" the first Telugu film to be released on a 70 mm 6-Track Stereophonic sound, the Western thriller "Kodama Simham", and the action thriller, "Gang Leader", popularized genre films with the highest estimated footfall. Reddiff.com cited Sekhar Kammula's, National Award-winning "Dollar Dreams" as a take off from where Nagesh Kukunoor's Hyderabad Blues ends. Dollar Dreams explored the conflict between American dreams and human feelings. The film re-introduced Social realism to Telugu screen, and brought back its lost glory which until then was stuck in its run of the mill commercial pot-boilers.