Whenver Pawan Kalyan is present at a film function, everyone is sure to hail him to the skies. The Ishq event was no different. It saw everyone from Nitin to Karunakaran praising the star.

Nitin said that he has been a big fan of Pawan since Toli Prema. In fact, Pawan, besides director Karunakaran, had changed the course of his life. "I am a very big fan of Pawan. I used to watch Toli Prema day after day at Sandhya Theatre in Hyderabad. I used to enact the entire film, including the dialogues and background score, at home. If this film ignited my interest in cinema, Karunakaran's encouragement gave birth to the desire to become an actor. Once when he visited our house, he said that I looked handsome", Nitin said.

Dil Raju recalled that he and Sudhakar Reddy distributed Toli Prema in the Nizam area. He co-related the Hindi titles of Khushi, Dil and Ishq, and hoped that the sentiment works. Raju also wished that Nitin have the post-Dil form after Ishq's relese.

Karunakaran gave a sentimental speech. He said that Pawan was both mother and father to him. "Without Pawan, I could not have had a career here. He is like God to me. I love him,” the 'Darling' director said.

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