Pushpa The Rise actor Allu Arjun scripted history by becoming the first Telugu actor to win the National Award for Best Actor in 69 years. The actor recently received his Best Actor award from the President of India Draupadi Murmu in New Delhi.

Mythri Movie Makers, the leading banner that’s bankrolling the Pushpa franchise, felicitated the National Award winners at a memorable ceremony last night. Allu Arjun credited Sukumar for his National Award, and a video of the actor’s speech at the ceremony is now going viral on social media.

Allu Arjun said he always believed that whatever we strongly believe in and manifest happens eventually. “But after winning the National Award, I realised that our belief is only fifty percent. The remaining fifty percent happens when the well-wishers around us wish for it strongly. I had a wish to win the National Award, but more than me, it was director Sukumar gari’s wish that I win the National Award for Pushpa. It is him that made me get this award. It came through me. I’m the achievement and he is the achiever,” Allu Arjun said.