Baahubali: The Beginning

Cast: Prabhas,Rana Daggubati,Tamannaah,Anushka Shetty(Devasena),Ramya Krishnan(Sivagami), Sathyaraj(Kattapa), Nassar(Bijjaldeva), Rohini(Sanga) and Sudeep(Aslam Khan)
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Genre: Period Drama, War, Adventure



One movie worth its hype. For all who are still wondering, must show up in the theaters :)




You may look forward to:

• What makes this movie worth a watch, are its real creditors: Director and Cinematographer. Splendid job done by both of them. Each and every frame is grand and spectacular in its own essence. Powerful rendition of the story. A story like an adventure tale from  childhood platformed on larger than life like sets, using competitive quality CGI, makes it every inch a theatrical watch. Downloading this one wont do a justice to its makers
• Prabhas and Rana Daggubati are equally competitive and very well fit into the respective roles given. The bad King doesn't look any bit less than the super hero equivalent lead.Though the number of songs credited to Daggubati is less compared to Prabhas :P Both of them look equally powerful and charismatic
• Supporting roles in movies today are equally strong. Anushka Shetty, Ramya Krishnan and Sathyaraj are defining characters of the film
• Nassar and Rohini are amongst more mentionable supporting roles
• Hindi dub and music, both were of pretty acceptable quality. They don't look absolutely out of place, rather blends in pretty comfortably
• Thankfully there were not many typical filmy styling on the actors, nor many human flying in the air and over dramatic scenes(Barring that one scene of lifting the shiv ling :P), which spells a lot of quality for the film, at par with the standards of quality film making. Most commendable of all being the war scenes, very much at par with the international standards

What you can sleep over:

• Tamannaah starts with a valuable footing. I felt happy that she gets meatier role in South Indian movies than in Bollywood. Alas! That stood true only until she met her reel hero. Once Prabhas takes over, her role stands redundant
• Yes, this movie looks like many Bollywood and Hollywood movies clubbed together in one. This movie reminds you of many random scenes and visuals from multiple other flicks

The dampeners you should be aware of:

• The length of the movie is exhaustive. I felt i watched two movies in one, and yet incomplete. The story before interval and past interval are the length of one movie each with completely different storylines. One could easily divide Part I and Part II of Bahubali in 4 parts, say: 'Bahubali-The beginning', 'Bahubali- The Rise of an emperor', 'Bahubali- Fall of an emperor', 'Bahubali- A revengeful conclusion' :P
• Sudeep has this small cameo which simply doesn't suit him. He looks more of Ranjnikanth in the get up of a Pathan, quite on the funnier side to be honest :)

My Rating: 4/5

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