The response of Sonu Sood’s fans to his latest film Acharya, which also stars Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan, has left him speechless. On Saturday, the actor took to social media to share a video of fans showering him with love in a variety of ways. Sonu stated that he believes he does not deserve such love, but that it motivates him to do better.

The video began with a scene from a theatre screening of Acharya, in which fans began hooting and throwing money on the screen as Sonu entered. Behind the swarm of notes that covered the screen, the actor who plays the antagonist Basava could barely be seen. Fans were seen beating drums in front of a large cutout of the actor in the next clip. They draped a large garland around the cutout and poured milk on it before applying a tilak to his forehead. Before bursting firecrackers, they performed an aarti of Sonu’s cutout.

Sonu became teary-eyed as he posted the video to his social media accounts, writing, “Thank you so much to my wonderful fans, whom I proudly refer to as my family, for all you have done for me. I don’t deserve such kindness, but your generosity motivates me to do better. Humbled I adore you all.”

It comes after Sonu revealed that his action scenes in Koratala Siva’s Acharya had to be reworked because Chiranjeevi wasn’t sure if people would accept him getting hit in action scenes. In the film, Sonu’s character Basava is a want tobe-MLA who runs the fictional temple village Dharmasthali through various illegal activities until he is confronted by Chiranjeevi’s Acharya and Ram Charan’s Siddha.

“I feel it is very difficult to see me,” Sonu, who previously stated that he is getting different roles as a result of his philanthropic efforts during and after the coronavirus pandemic, told indianexpress.com (in a negative role). Producers, directors, and writers have all expressed their inability to see or imagine me in a negative role. I recall starting shooting for two films before Covid-19, one of which was Acharya. They had to rework a couple of scenes as well.”

According to a review in the Hindustan Times, Acharya is director Koratala Siva’s “weakest work” and “one of those movies you’d only want to watch because it stars both Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan.” Pooja Hegde and Anurag Kashyap also star in the film.