20 Mind Blowing Facts About Baahubali

‘Baahubali’ is a grand movie to say the least. It is considered as India’s reply to ‘300’, and what is common knowledge, is that it is not only the most expensive Indian film, but also the most successful Indian film. The actors worked hard, with determination that had never before been seen, not only on their work, but also on their physique, in order to bring their characters to life. The war sequences too were enough to leave a very sound effect on the viewers and the two leads of the war, ‘Prabhas’ and Rana Daggubati Rana Daggubati is a famous Indian actor. He was bo >> Read More... showed impeccable style, devotion and contribution. The romantic scenes too were intense, beautiful to say the least, and original. The scenes where Baahubali climbs the waterfall, and the scenes where the waterfall is present are insanely beautiful and so are the actors involved. Tamannaah Bhatia Tamannaah Bhatia is a well known actress in Tamil >> Read More... and Prabhas shared impeccable chemistry and Tamannaah Bhatia, along with other female characters in the movie are shown to be fearless warriors, rather than being weak and dependent. There are also many things about Baahubali that are not common knowledge, which we will be discussing today in this list.

1. Prabhas Did Not Do Any Other Movie

For all the time that it took for the filming of the movie, the lead actor Prabhas did no other movie and worked solely on making himself better and more suitable for this role. For three years, he worked on making himself Baahubali, and Baahubali alone, leaving behind actors like Aamir Khan Aamir Khan or Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan is Bolly >> Read More... who work on one movie a year.

2. A Complete Three Years Of Hard Labour

The movie was made in three years, where one entire year went into pre-production work, the second year went into shooting, and the third year went into VFX effects and post-production. Of course, when we look at the result of it all, it all seems to be worth it in the end.

3. Prabhas Postponed His Wedding

Baahubali made Prabhas the most eligible bachelor of the country as he attained worldwide fame with the movie. However, the actor supposedly postponed his wedding to shoot, prepare and build up for the movie and promised his uncle to get married in 2016. Meanwhile, whenever he was interviewed, he maintained that he was in an affair with his movie Baahubali.

4. It Is The Only Movie To Have A Museum

‘ S. S. Rajamouli A film director and a screenwriter S.S. Rajamouli >> Read More... ’ knew well enough that he was not just creating a movie in Baahubali, rather, he was creating an important part of history. So, in order to preserve that history, he decided to build a museum that will contain crucial parts of the film, like the costumes, weapons and armors.

5. Karan Johar Karan Johar is one among the top ten celebrities i >> Read More... ’s Joining In

Karan Johar took on the job of distributing and promoting the Hindi version of Baahubali and the actors could not have agreed more. Even Prabhas Raju went on record to state that only a banner as huge as Dharma Productions could have taken on the duty of their mega budget film, Baahubali.

6. S. S. Rajamouli’s Appreciation Of Karan Johar

Both Rajamouli and Karan Johar were tremendously supporting each other. Whenever Rajamouli had an idea that had never been done before for an Indian movie, like the museum that had been opened for the film, Karan Johar would always be the first one to jump on board with it. So, impressed with his support, Rajamouli gifted him a painting that was very dear to him. This painting was a still from the waterfall scenes that had impressed Rajamouli so much that he called a painter on set and asked him to paint it.

7. S. S. Rajamouli’s Success Rate

Not unsurprisingly, S. S. Rajamouli has not delivered even a single flop in his entire career. Even today, all the actors from Baahubali are at his beck and call, ready to give him any number of dates at any time of the year for the shooting of Baahubali’s second part, as they all achieved global stardom due to the film.

8. Anushka Shetty Anushka Shetty is the popular South Indian star wh >> Read More... ’s Weight Fluctuation

The actress went through a lot in terms of her weight for the movie. In the first part, she portrays the part of Baahubali’s mother, so she was asked to gain 20 kgs, which she did. In the second part, where she will be portraying the heroine of the elder Baahubali, she will be seen as the heroine, which will need her to shed the excess weight and is considered one of the many reasons behind the movie’s delay.

9. Prabhas And Rana Daggubati’s Diet

Since the two actors had to look muscular, demanding, intimidating and string in aura and personality, both the actors went on a strict diet, eating at least 6 strictly non-vegetarian meals a day, with a lot of egg whites, along with a huge portion of the day dedicated to working out.

10. Guinness Book Of World Records

The poster of the movie broke a Guinness world record by making a poster that measured more than 50,000 square feet in Kochi. It is the very first poster that was released and looks like quite a sight, as it marks a proud moment for India. For Baahubali, it is one of the many records that the film has broken.

11. The Dubbing Artist

Since the characters were larger than life, it was important for their voices to be so too. When the movie was converted into Hindi, a lot of the actors like Tamannaah Bhatia went ahead and dubbed for themselves. However, some of them needed voice artists due to their heavy South Indian accents. So, Sharad Kelkar This is our own Nahar Banna Sharad Kelkar of 'Saat >> Read More... , who has previously dubbed for many films, and appears in many daily soaps and films, went ahead and gave his voice to Prabhas.

12. Visual Effects, Art And Technicians

The movie is perfect in every aspect. But the special effects are not easy to perfect. In a movie like Baahubali, special effects are a crucial part and they just have to be perfect. So, more than 800 technicians were involved in making the effects perfect.

13. Similarity With Jurassic Park

The film has an unavoidable similarity with the latest part of Jurassic Park, which is its VFX team. Both movies share the same team of artists. All the movies in the Jurassic Park series have been tremendous hits all over the world, and special effects are a crucial part of the film, as almost all the creatures that we see on the screen are made to come to life through special effects. So the team hired is one of top notch professionals, and so, we can estimate how much the team would have worked for Baahubali and the part it must have played in its success.

14. Anushka’s Achievement

It is common knowledge that S. S. Rajamouli only works with a heroine once. Never in his career has he ever signed up with the same heroine more than once. However, Anushka Shetty broke this resolve and Baahubali became her second film with S. S. Rajamouli. Perhaps it is her dedication as an actress that did it, as she had to go through severe weight fluctuations to look like the heroine and the mother, and she did so without any protests and refused to use any unnatural process to gain or lose weight so it would look as natural as possible on the screen.

15. Sets As Tall As 45 Feet

Whenever sets are made for a movie, they are generally as tall as 23 feet. However, prepared in the time period of more than a year, the sets of this film were much taller, standing up to 45 feet, in order to match the grandeur of the kingdom that Baahubali ruled.

16. Millions Of Views On YouTube

The number of views that a film’s trailer receives on YouTube is a good criteria to judge and predict its success. Breaking all records, Baahubali received 4.5 million views on YouTube within 24 hours. People had been eagerly waiting for the movie ever since its release, so the movie received a warmer welcome than any film had received before and people watched it again and again, waiting for the movie to release with bated breath.

17. The Earnings From Advanced Booking

The filmed earned a significant amount just through advanced booking in the United States of America.

18. Prabhas’s Fees For The Film

Since Prabhas worked so hard and for so long for this film, he took home 20 crore rupees, which became the highest fees ever paid to a South Indian artist.

19. Prabhas’s Training Equipment

Since Prabhas had to work extensively on his body for a long period of time, he was gifted training equipment from the production company itself, which cost more than 1.5 crore rupees and were imported from different parts of the world.

20. Legal Troubles That The Film Had To Face

The film also faced and defeated some legal troubles, as religious groups whose God’s name is also Baahubali feared that their God who was a non-violent peace loving man will be shown as a violent man.