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Bãhubali: The Conclusion is...
Bahubali 2: The Conclusion is the much-awaited Episode 2 of the Bahubali saga. It is not a sequel but a previously- planned second episode, which completes the story that was left hanging, so to say, atop a cliff in Episode 1.
Bahubali: The Beginning (2015) (see) was a period film from the Telugu film industry, which was India’s third biggest industry in 2014 and the second biggest in 2005. (Indian cinema: Statistics) It is to date the most expensive film ever made in India. That it had dubbed versions in Hindi-Urdu, Tamil and Malayalam made such extravagance possible.
When Bahubali: The Beginning (2015) was first released it seemed that it would re-write all records of box office success in India and become India’s biggest money-spinning film ever. However, it had to settle for the no.3 spot, which was no mean achievement either.
Interesting facts
Five from The Times of India
Sivagami's attire
Fans of the hugely successful franchise are well aware that ‘Baahubali’ is actually one big story divided into two movies, and is now rumoured to have a third film in the works. IndiaTimes/ The Times of India drew up a list of a few unknown facts that could throw light on the sequel…
Sivagami’s attire
Queen mother Sivagami meets her demise at the start of ‘Baahubali: The Beginning’. She is seen wearing a green saree with a red border. Now, in the trailer for ‘Baahubali 2: The Conclusion’, she can be seen in the same attire presenting an infant - Mahendra Baahubali - to the people. Coincidently, in the post credit scene of the first film, she was seen in the same saree sadly caressing someone, possibly the corpse of Amarendra Baahubali. It is thus evident that Baahubali’s death, Mahendra’s announcement as the heir and Sivagami’s demise happened on the same day. by Shivkumar.H
Prabhas played a triple role
Everyone knows that Prabhas plays the dual character of father and son in the movie. However, it might surprise you that he played the role of the grandfather as well! In ‘Baahubali: The Beginning’, a painting of King Dharmendra Baahubali, is shown, which looks strikingly similar to Prabhas. This means that the actor has actually portrayed three characters in the film. Maybe, fans will get to see more of Dharmendra Baahubali as well in the upcoming film.
Kattappa met Mahendra Baahubali right after killing his father
Kattappa, the slave warrior stabs Amarendra Baahubali in the back while at war. In the post-credits scene, as he returns to the palace dejected and battle-worn, he can be seen covered in blood with some injuries on his head. Interestingly, he carries the same injuries during a flashback scene, where he recognises Mahendra Baahubali and places the infant's feet on his forehead. Thus, indicating that he met the child after killing his father. Could this hence be an act of remorse on the slave warrior’s part?
Stolen army secrets that were never used
Sivagami’s aide stole the Mahishmati kingdom's army secrets to presumably sell them to the barbaric Kalakeyas. However, Baahubali and Bhallaladeva catch him, but not before he sends the information across with the help of a messenger dove. With the secrets of the army and with the strength of numbers, the Kalakeyas must have surely defeated the Mahishmati warriors. But surprisingly, this did not happen and they attacked without tact. So who got the secrets of the Mahishmati army? There is an indication that the Kalakeyas might attack once again, this time, with the secrets to help them out. Maybe this is the raging war we will get to see in ‘Baahubali 2’ where Kattappa kills his king.
Bhallaladeva was already king before Amarendra Baahubali died
In the promo videos that came out in 2014 before ‘Baahubali: The Beginning’, there was one particular interesting video that showed Prabhas aka Amarendra Baahubali displaying his swordsmanship in the royal courtroom. In the background, sitting on the throne is Bhallaladeva! However, in the end of the first film, it was Baahubali who was declared king. So this leads to the question of how the reign of the kingdom passed from Baahubali to Bhallaladeva while the crowned king was very much alive. We can only wait and see if the upcoming film will shed some light on this.
Ten from Big Wire
Sreya Basu | 10 interesting facts about Bahubali: The Conclusion | March 17, 2017 | Big Wire
And, Kattappa killed Bahubali. Thus endeth the 2015 mega blockbuster Bahubali: The Beginning leaving the audience on the edge of their seats waiting for its sequel Bahubali 2 or Baahubali: The Conclusion.
The 2.24-minute theatrical trailer of much-awaited Bahubali: The Conclusion, popularly being referred as Bahubali 2, was released on Mar 15 and it started trending worldwide within an hour.
The film’s director S S Rajamouli tweeted on Friday (Mar 17): “50 Million cumulative views of our trailer, across all languages, on YT & FB. The most viewed Indian movie trailer in 24hours. #BB2Storm”.
[Indpaedia adds: In thirteen days on YouTube alone the trailer gathered more than 38.5 million views in Hindi-Urdu, 36 million in Telugu, and 6 million in Tamil.
[In 2015 Indpaedia had predicted that the Hindi-Urdu version would earn slightly more than the Telugu original. That came true for the first time in the history of the Indian box office. The same has now happened with the trailer of Bahubali 2: The Conclusion.
[Indpaedia’s prediction is that if Bahubali 2: The Conclusion is a superhit, once again the Hindi-Urdu version will collect around the same or a little more than the Telugu version. However, if the audience reception is lukewarm, then Telugu audiences will remain more loyal than those in the ‘rest of India. ]
Bahubali 2 or Bahubali: The Conclusion is scheduled for release on April 28.
Here are 10 interesting facts about Bahubali 2 or Bahubali: The Conclusion for the fans of the epic movie:
1. The climax of Bahubali 2 or Bahubali: The Conclusion was shot with a whopping budget of Rs 30 crore, which was almost double the budget of the climax shot of its prequel Bahubali: The Beginning.
2. Remember the waterfall scene in Bahubali-The Beginning that took almost one-third of the total shooting time of the entire film? Well, brace your seats for similar scenes in Bahubali 2 or Bahubali: The Conclusion. Add on, it has some breath-taking war scenes as well.
3. The shooting of Bahubali 2 or Bahubali: The Conclusion started on Dec 17, 2015 at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad with Telegu superstar Prabhas who is playing the lead and Ramya Krishnan, who is playing queen Sivagami.
4. Some pictures from the pre-climax shoot of the film were leaked online last year, despite filmmakers taking every possible step to stop leaking of details about the film.
5. Private television channel Sony TV has bought the satellite rights of the Hindi version of Bahubali 2 for Rs 51 crore, which is the highest amount paid for a dubbed film so far.
6. Bahubali 2 will reported see a love triangle between Amarendra Bahubali (Prabhas), Ballala Deva (Rana Daggubati) and Devasena (Anushka Shetty). Sivagami (Ramya Krishnan) asks Devasena to marry Ballala Deva, but she reportedly refuses and ties the knots with Amarendra Bahubali.
7. In Bahubali 2, Sivagami, who earlier favoured her deceased sister-in-law’s son Amarendra Bahubali over her own child Ballala Deva, will reportedly be seen switching her loyalties and throwing the newly married Bahubali and Devasena out of the Mahishmati kingdom.
8. To get their beast bodies Prabhas (playing the protagonist) and Rana Daggubati (playing the antagonist) were even trained in martial arts by Vietnamese trainer Tuan. Both actors were made to gain over 30 kilos to get into the skin of their characters.
9. Bahubali 2 or Baahubali: The Conclusion has already collected Rs 500 crore via satellite and theatrical rights even before its release.
10. Director S S Rajamouli has assured fans to come back with Bahubali 3 as well, details of which will be announced later.
Big Wire
Events before the release of Bahubali: The Conclusion
Re-release of Bahubali: The Beginning on 900 screens
After films started getting ‘beamed’ to cinemas through satellites around the year 2003, and pirated DVDs became rampant in India, the era of films being re-released in India came to an end.
However, in early April 2017 “the producers and distributors of the Baahubali films decided that it would be a good idea to re-release Baahubali: The Beginning in theatres [three weeks] ahead of the theatrical release of its sequel Baahubali: The Conclusion.”
With around 900 screens, this was the biggest re-release in the history of Indian cinema, the first in the post-satellite era and the first nationwide re-release of any Indian film in its original format.
At least some people turned up at cinemas assuming that it was part 2 that had been released.
“However, the plan did not work out well as reports say that Baahubali: The Beginning's re-release could not bring people into theatres this weekend. India Today
The film could gather just about 2 crore* in its opening weekend KoiMoi.com DNA gave the same figure.
Live Mint broadly agreed with the figure but gave a more cheerful interpretation: “The re-release of the Hindi version of the first part in the run-up seems to have paid off quite decently for the makers, according to experts.
“Baahubali: The Beginning has made Rs2-3 crore in its opening weekend which is better than all the Hindi films that released along with it. These include family drama Mukti Bhawan, musical comedy Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laaddoo Deewana, erotic love story Mirza Juuliet and Ranvir Shorey-starrer Blue Mountains: A Modern Day Classic, all of which netted less than Rs50 lakh each.
“The purpose of re-releasing the film though, industry experts emphasize, has been to generate and sustain curiosity in the run-up to the release of the new film, besides giving a chance to people to revisit the old film before watching the new one.
“ “Footfalls for the film could have been much higher had the prices been slightly lower,” Mohan said. “You have multiplexes selling tickets for Rs600-700 when an average rate of Rs200-250 would have helped more. “ “
The Tamil version of Baahubali: The Beginning was re-released a week before the premiere of Part 2.
desidime.com reported that ‘Assured access will be given only to users who book tickets for Baahubali: The Beginning between 7th & 17th April, 2017.’
In the absence of figures of any kind for the box office collections of Baahubali: The Beginning in its 2017 re-release, Indpaedia, using projections, assumes that the total all-India collections in all languages in one week were around Rs.6crore.
Cast and crew
Director
S.S. Rajamouli
Writer
Vijayendra Prasad
Cast
Prabhas
Rana Daggubati
Sathyaraj
Ramya Krishnan
Aryan Ashik
Nassar
Producers
Prasad Devineni ...
K. Raghavendra Rao
Shobu Yarlagadda
Cinematography
Senthil Kumar
Production Design
Sabu Cyril
Costume Design
Rama Rajamouli
Music
M.M. Keeravani
See also
Bahubali: The Beginning (2015)
Bahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017)
