Baahubali - All Colours Changed

Ever since the talk of 175 crores budget for a two-part releasing Telugu movie, many industry bigwigs went jaw dropping. All this hype about 'Baahubali' has turned into negative talk with critics and trade pundits slamming the makers for investing a non-recoverable figures into the Rajamouli directorial. But all that negativity is simply gone now. Guess how?

A look at Baahubali's newly released special making video that talks about the one year journey of the movie has done the magic. With Rajamouli making everyone travel through what he has done at various spots like Kurnool, Kerala and a specially prepared war-turf, and through different sets he has built for the movie at Ramoji Film City and Annapurna Studios have definitely changed the whole 'color' of the rumours engulfing this movie.

Now, everyone is quite positive that Baahubali is going to be more gigantic than one had ever expected.  There is a positive buzz that if this flick is released simultaneously in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi then it is going to rake up more than 250 crores. Well, lets hope this positive buzz about this mammoth budgeted magnum opus lasts for long. 

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Rajamouli's Explanation Gives Full Kick!!!

Upon watching the trailers of Superstar Rajnikanth's Vikramasimha, many felt that the graphics work of the movie is inferior. But not until star director Rajamouli explains the hard work behind it. 'Soundarya immortalized God into history for millions of fans in a 3D character', said Rajamouli, setting a perfect stage for his thrilling speech.

'A small fly that occupies a corner of the screen took me two years to complete due to the complexity of graphics and VFX work involved. Imagine that on a full scale, a full screen size and a complete two and half hour movie', stresses Rajamouli, explaining how tough it is to make graphical wonder like Vikramasimha. 'Small renderings that need Photoshop take huge time. Imagine this kind of scale, and imagine how hair, skin, skin texture, costume renders take huge time to complete. But director Soundarya did a fantastic job to deliver them in just two years time. I'm amazed', he avers.

On a concluding note, Rajamouli said, 'Victory is always a relative of sweat and as Soundarya has sweat heavily, definitely Vikramsimha will become a big blockbuster'. You are truly a gem among the gems Rajamouli and your explanation has given full kick about Vikramasimha 

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Bad news for Bunny's fans

It's bad news for Bunny and his fans as director Rajamouli teaming up with him turn out to be false. Director S.S Rajamouli, who never minces his words, himself rubbished these as baseless. Jakkanna made it clear that he has no other plans until he wrap up his present commitment Baahubali. Buzz had it that Rajamouli and Bunny held meetings for their collaboration.

Quickly reacting to them, Rajamouli clarified through his Twitter post, "Though I (would) love to work with Bunny (Allu Arjun), there hasn't been any plan or talks yet. All you see are mere speculations. (I) won't be planning anything till 'Baahubali' is over."

Hope this combo of Stylish Star and Stylish Director would team up sooner or later. 

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Rajamouli's Beard Is The Calendar For 'Bahubali'

Whenever director S S Rajamouli helms a project one can be rest assured that he takes his own sweet time to shape it up and get it to the theatres. But the end result at the box office has always been smashing because this tough taskmaster ensures that every minute detail is taken care of. Now, the filmnagar folks have come up with a new concept to determine how much time Rajamouli’s film will take. 

This is on the basis of the growth of his beard. Apparently, Rajamouli is busy with the shooting of his new movie ‘Bahubali’ and the beard is growing consistently. Speculations are on whether by the time the movie gets over will it touch Rajamouli’s chest or tummy. It is heard that he will not remove his beard till the film gets completed. So, that has become the calendar for the movie. The film also has Prabhas and Daggubati Rana in the lead who are growing their share of beards for their roles.

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Charan, the Six Pack Villain of Baahubali

For a movie being directed by a star director, it is not just hero but villains are also equally important to set the fire on a high tone for the clash. Here comes a budding actor, who got that mega chance.

Fondly called Charan, he is actor Charandeep who is featuring as a villain in the upcoming Telugu movie 'Billa Ranga'. Also he is a sought after villain in Tamil circuits as he playing star hero Vijay's antagonist in 'Jilla' movie. Right now, he is picked by ace Telugu filmmaker Rajamouli for his upcoming mythical flick 'Baahubali'. With Prabhas being a hulk, and Rana having that macho look, it seems like Rajamouli is in need of a villain in stunning six-pack looks. And there comes Charandeep, fitting the bill perfectly. In a flick that is supposed to be a war of all muscular men, this new comer is going to set the equations strong, say unit members of Baahubali.

A schedule involving all the lead cast including this new entrant Charan is going to start for Baahubali. Rajamouli is going to film high octane war scenes this time, and we already know that 2000 junior artists are also joining the crew this time. 

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Who's eligible for The Best Entertainer Crown ?

The meteoric rise of director Trivikram Srinivas with two back-to-back hits 'Julayi' and 'Atharintiki..' could give some sleepless nights to SS Rajamouli and Srinu Vytla who are holding the top position in T-town with a series of blockbusters and also necessitate a debate, that who is the best entertainer among three most popular dream merchants. 

Even though, T-town witnessed the emergence of some gen x directors, like Vamsi Paidipally, Harish Shankar, Sampath Nandi, Boyapati Srinu and Maruthi who showed few sparks but they need to deliver more hits, to lay claim for the top slot. So, lets see, on whom the crown of best entertainer sits pretty well. No doubt, Rajamouli stands taller among all directors, by exploring various genres like socio-fantasies like Magadheera and Eega, sports-centric movie (sye) and a laugh-riot (Maryada rammana) and now sets out to make a historical film 'Baahuballi', to have definite edge over his rivals, with his creative genius, whereas, Trivikram is not far behind in success rate, but one thing for sure, he likes to play if safe and doesn't take up novel plots or genres and likes to work around simple plots, but heavily relies on his inherent strength 'flair for comedy' and comes up with very powerful punch lines, to keep audience entertained. Giving these two a stiff completion- is Srinu Vytla, the master of humour-driven films like 'Dhookudu', 'Baadshah' who sometimes overlooks 'logic' and like to etch out lot of humour and accodomates loads of comedy characters into his script, (particularly Brahmanandam), but assures laugh-a-minute. 

Even though, threesome have preferences over picking up 'plots' but they mostly rely on song-& dance routine, separate comedy tracks and other so-called ingredients, to engage audience for 3 hours. All of them can design powerful roles for stars and Rajamouli showed it with hits like 'Yamadonga' ( NTR), 'Chatrapathi (Prabhas) but later began to work with lesser known actors like Sunil, before returning to star-driven film 'Baahubali'. Whereas, Trivikram began the other way round, as he scored a hit with young actor Tarun (Nuvve Nuvve), before moving to the big league of stars Mahesh babu(Athadu), Pawan Kalyan (Jalsa) and Mahesh (Khaleja) but couldn't deliver hit with Chiranjeevi in 'Jai Chiranjeeva', since too much comedy on a big star, backfires at times, without a plot, that justifies their superstardom. Even Srinu Vytla, flip flopped with stars like Chiranjeevi (Andarivadu), but found his winning streak with Ravi Teja (Venky) flamboyance and then tastes sucess with Mahesh (Dookudu) and NTR. So he has developed a brand of his own for 'entertainment' and many directors are finding it easy to emulate his formula and love to tickle the pink bones of the viewers.

Whereas, Rajamouli graph has been almost steady for the last decade, but Trivikram became a comeback specialist since he had big flops inbetween to dent his progress, whereas Srinu's also had non money-spinners like 'Namo Venkatesa' but reached the top with one solid hit 'Dhookudu'. All of them capable of handling big stars and can inspire big stars to put in some good performance, as all of them are considered tough task masters. All of them draw inspiration from Hollywood movies like Eega (coackroach), Magadheera (Troy, Braveheart) and Julayi was inspired by 'Italian Job' and Srinu's 'Dhookudu' was rip off of 'Good Bye Lenin' but they are good re-working on these hired themes and make it believable, by sketching boy-next-door protoganists and their simplicity and good-heartedness eclipses the unbelievability factor, in hero's task accomplishment.  

In terms of versality, Rajamouli leads the pack, but Trivikram and Srinu are easy to emulate and discovered the formula for success in T-town humuor-ridden star movies- and don't mind overlooking 'logic; to create magic, whereas Rajamouli is a stickler for perfection and doesn't like to compromise easily. So for now, Rajamouli, is entitled for the crown, but Trivikram-Srinu could also stake claim, by trying some different genres and catapult T-town to a different level and break the notion, that T-town can deliver only 'no brainer' stuff. 

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Pawan voted as the best by Times

Pawan Kalyan was honoured with Best Actor award by Hyderabad Times for his remarkable performance in the highest grossing flick of 2012 Gabbar Singh.

Nithya Menon has been choosen as the Best Actress for her lovable performance in romantic flick Ishq.

Rajamouli walked away with the honors of best director and best film awards or Eega.

Hyderabad Times Film Awards 2012 winners list:

Best Actor (Male)  - Pawan Kalyan for Gabbar Singh;  Best Actor (Female) - Nithya Menen for Ishq;  Best Film - Eega;  Best Director - Rajamouli for Eega; Best Music Director - Devi Sri Prasad for Gabbar Singh; Best Lyrics - Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry for Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum;  Best Singer (Male) - Deepu for Nene Nanine...Eega; Best Singer (Female) - Suchitra for Sar Ostharosthara...Businessman; Best actor in Comic Role - Allari Naresh for Sudigadu;  Best Child Actor - Akash for Dhoni;  Best Actor in a Negative Role - Sudeep for Eega;  Best Actress in a Negative Role - Gabriela Bertante for Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu; Promissing Newcomer (Male) - Sudheer Babu for SMS; Promissing Newcomer (Female) - Regina Cassandra for SMS;  Best Screenplay - Tanikella Bharani for Midhunam;  Best Youth Film - Ishq.

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Baahubali! Fling Sword, Not Voice

Projects like Baahubali are once in a life time, especially if one is a Telugu hero in the present generation. We have come long way from making historical, fairy-tale and mythological flicks, and these days only six-song-three-fight movies are clicking well. Let's get straight to the point now.

Director Rajamouli might not have found an apt choice for Baahubali role other than Prabhas. He is not just hunk, but got that body language to catapult himself as a fierce warrior on battle field. However, what is happening with our new age mythical flicks is that we are dependent more on punch dialogues than the actual action sequences. This is not the case with Telugu flick, but our Hindi and Tamil counterparts are also resorting to same thing.

Unlike Hollywood battlefield scenes, where the spat of swords and clash of shields sound more interest, here our heroes stand in the middle to deliver a hair rising dialogue. The big hope now is that at least Prabhas will put a full stop to such 'voice' stuff and will shine and shout more with his sword flinging. There should be a day and a movie to prove that our swordsmen are mightier than Hollywood's too.

Hope Prabhas and Rajamouli will work in that direction rather making another commercial pot-boiler though in an age of kings' backdrop.

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Undisputed Number one - An analysis

Who is the number one director in Telugu cinema industry now? Most of them would say Rajamouli going by his track record. Although Rajamouli has hundred percent track record and tries to make films of high quality and yearns for taking the Telugu cinema to next level, he makes films at his own pace.

Rajamouli can make one film for two years at the best. This pace is not enough for Telugu film industry where more than hundred films are made every year. Directors of Rajamoul's caliber need to make at least one film every year for the sake of business. Scoring a success is important and also maintaining the pace is equally essential in Tollywood.

Trivikram, who used to take his own time for every film in the past, has changed a lot. He made Julayi and Attarintiki Daredi in less than seven months. Julayi was a super hit and AD is now the new number one hit of Telugu cinema. Trivikram took less than a year for script and making of Attarintiki Daredi. Whereas Rajamouli takes nothing short of two years for each movie. Trivikram also has enviable success percentage. Only Khaleja didn't do well and all the remaining films of his were successful. He has the best track record in overseas region and is on par with any superstar. With Julayi and AD, Trivikram has caught the pulse of Telugu masses and there is no stopping him if he continues to entertain us in this fashion. 

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Baahubali Making Video Is Not a Copy

                               

The big news that is doing rounds in social circles is that 'Baahubali' making video is a rip of something available on internet. But truth is not something so much complete to think negative about that making-video, but it is quite simple.

In fact the concept of making video happens to be a purchased theme from popular motion graphics source provider 'Videohive'. Actually anyone can visit that site to purchase the video themes, but what needs is an expertise of video editing and working with motion graphics in software like Adobe After Effects. Even Baahubali making-video team led by Rajamouli's son Karthikeya might have visited the same website and felt that one particular theme will suit their needs. So, they have incorporated their stuff into that ready-to-modify theme and added original background score. So, there is nothing like copying here, but it is a matter of selecting and purchasing a graphics video and modifying it.

For your information, many Telugu movie initial credits ideas are something purchased from the website 'videohive.net' and modified according to the needs. So, don't worry Baahubali fans, we know what plagiarism is and what is not!