‘Baahubali’ grosses Rs 165 crore in 3 days
Baahubali - The Beginning | Official Trailer | Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, SS Rajamouli The world of S S Rajamouli’s “Bahubali” is decidedly strange – there are arid plains alongside cascading waterfalls, and tropical gardens magically emerge from snow-clad mountains. But theTelugu director’s imaginary world in the first film of a two-part epic fantasy fits in so well with the story that such discrepancies don’t matter. For two-and-a-half hours, “Bahubali” (which means the one with strong arms) consistently delivers top-class entertainment and spectacle, which is not true of any movie to have come out of Bollywood in a long, long time. Rajamouli’s scale and vision are as towering as the waterfall that forms a crucial part of the film’s backdrop. The film’s biggest achievement comes from the fact that it marries Hollywood’s grandeur of scale with an inherently Indian tale of good and evil. The use of computer-generated imagery to depict the tale of ancient kingdoms and bloody wars is clearly inspired from the Ridley Scott and “Gladiator” school of film-making. And the result is a near-perfect mix of entertainment.
