SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali: The Beginning changed the way the entire world looked at Indian cinema. Even before this mega-flick Bollywood as well as other regional filmmakers had tried using VFX and CGI. But the way Rajamouli visualised the scenes and translated them into reality on the screen with good contributions from actors like Prabhas and Rana Daggubati was something no one had dared to believe, execute, or establish.
As Baahubali: The Beginning completes 9 years of its release today check out some coolest facts regarding the movie. The movie introduced a completely new language The team of Rajamouli created a new language for the tribe of Kalakeya called KiliKil with 748 words and around 40 grammar rules. It was a first-of-its-kind experiment.
Rana Daggubati gained weight The Ghazi Attack hero who played the powerful and mean character of Bhallal Deva had to gain 33 kgs of weight for Baahubali: The Beginning. For that, he used to eat 40 egg whites every day. Biggest VFX team The Baahubali franchise employed one of the biggest VFX teams with around 600 VFX artists from 18 different faculties working on the franchise.
The two companies actively involved in VFX were Makuta and Firefly, Hyderabad. Sridevi was the first choice for Sivagamini SS Rajamouli had first approached Sridevi for the role of Sivagamini. However, the remuneration she demanded was too huge for the budget, so the role went to Ramya Krishnan who made it unforgettable with her splendid performance.
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