Baahubali: The Beginning aka Bahubali: The Beginning (English: The One With Strong Arms) is an epic historical fiction movie directed and written by S.S. Rajamouli. The movie is released on 10 July 2015 starring Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Tamannaah, Anushka Shetty, Sudeep, Sathyaraj, Nassar, Ramya Krishnan, Prabhakar. After a long year wait of 3 years, finally the movie Baahubali has been released worldwide. The movie is the most expensive production in the history of Indian cinema to date. the movie doesn’t star a Bachchan, a khan or a Rajinikanth, but the movie has earned headlines and ticket queues as no other movie in recent history.It is a wonderful Indian movie and we should be proud of it. It is one of the biggest motion pictures which I have ever seen in Indian cinema. There are some unknown, shocking, mind-blowing and interesting facts about Baahubali movie, which I think you must know that made this epic movie a blockbuster hit. Here are the Facts below:
1. The movie was shot using Arri Alexa XT Camera
2. The movie took 3 Years of unbeatable hard work of which 380 days were spent on Shooting.
3. The most expensive Indian movie ever made in Indian cinema is costlier than Rajinikanth’s Enthiran (Robot)
4. Baahubali has entered Guinness Book of World Records by Making the largest poster ever. (Dimensions of 50,000 sq feet).
5. A big Budget of 250 crores. Highest budget movie ever in Indian cinema.
6. Principal photography began on July 2013 at Rock Gardens in Kurnool.
7. The movie was made in Tamil and Telugu and dubbed into Hindi, French, Malayalam and many other foreign languages.
8. Karan Johar joined his hands with Rajamouli. His Dharma Productions owns the Hindi rights.
9. The soundtrack and background score for the movie is composed by National Award winner M.M. Keeravani.
10. In this period of 3 years, Prabhas didn’t do any movie.
11. Grossed 230 crores in just 5 days.
12. Prabhas postponed his marriage for the purpose of this movie and for director S.S. Rajamouli.
13. A 20-minute long battle scene took four months to shoot.
14. 45-foot-high scaled sets which were really astonishing.
15. Around 800+ award winning technicians worked on Design, visual effect and art.
16. Baahubali trailer crossed more than 6.9 million views on YouTube.
17. Baahubali trailer crossed more than 1.8 million views on Facebook and crossed 1.5 million page like.
18. Released worldwide in 4000+ screens including 135 screens in US only.
19. Rajamouli shot for the waterfall sequence of Baahubali for 109 days.
20. Around 200 sculptors are required to made a 125-foot-tall statue of Bhallaldeva weighed over 8000 kg. 4 cranes are required to rigidly upright the statue.
21. There was so much content in the movie that it became 5 hours long. So the movie is divided into 2 parts. The first part has been released now and second part Baahubali-The Conclusion will release in 2016.
22. 2000 extras (junior artists) were specially employed for war sequences.
23. Rana told NDTV that he ate up to 10 meals a day and put on 25-30 kg.
24. Baahubali movie contains some 4500 computer graphics and visual effects.
25. Both Prabhas and Rana spent six months on weapons training and learned martial arts.
26. Prabhas has gained lots of weight for his role in the movie.
27. Prabhas body building equipment cost around 1.5 crore INR.
28. The Incredible Hulk’ editor Vincent Tabaillon to edit international cut of “Baahubali-The beginning”.
29. More than one lakh followers on Twitter.
30. Anushka Shetty is the only actress who worked with Rajamouli for the second time.
31. No single flop in his whole film career- SS Rajamouli, the director.
32. The movie has been shot in 16:9 aspect ratio for bigger and better quality pictures.
33. 17 VFX studios with 600 artists working on Bahubali in double shifts.
34.The movie faced some legal trouble after Jain monks claimed against the movie’s title Bahubali, revered as a goddess in the community.
35. Even before its release, It is the only movie that has been featured on BBC documentary on 100 years of Indian cinema.
36. Both Prabhas and Rana have gained over 100 kg weight for the movie and also undergo a special training to get in shape. Both actors was to consume 2,000-4,000 calories per day. Strictly non-vegetarian only.
37. 85 crores were only spent on visual effects.
38. Advance booking for Baahubali movie. Thousands of fans queue-up outside the box office at Hyderabad, Banglore, Chennai and many other cities.
39. Around 2000 elephant and stuntmen are used.
40. Bahubali and Jurassic World– both movies share the same special effects team.
41. The makers of Baahubali offer Rs. 20 crores as remuneration to Prabhas making him the highest paid actor in Tollywood.
42. Prabhas consumed 40 white boiled egg everyday.
43. The new language was developed named Kilikili. It has 750 words and 40 grammar rules. The language was originated for the ruthless warrior tribe called Kalakeya in the movie- Commander of a 100,000 barbarian.
44. It becomes the first Indian movie to have its own museum like Hollywood movies. The museum will contain all the weapons, costumes, armors that the actors sport in the movie.
45. Prabhas learned rock climbing for the movie.
46. Around 20, 000 weapons designed and used in the entire movie.
47. Around 5000 VFX shots used throughout the movie.
48. Total 733 days, since the first days of shoot till the release date.
49. Around 15000 sketches made as a part of pre-production.
50. 110 acres space utilized to shoot war sequences at RFC.
51. The crew of Baahubali have 25 National award winning technicians and artists.
52. Around 20 acres of maize farm was cultivated for the shoot in RFC.
53. 6 various maces (gadhas) designed specially for Rana’s war scenes.
54. The whole movie runs up to 15 reels.
55. Around 12 days taken for the shot in which Bhallala Deva’s statue is raised.
56. The movie has 8 iconic character including Baahubali, Devasena, Bhallala Deva, Shivudu, Avantika, kattappa, Bijjala Deva, Sivagami which will be remembered for century.
57. It is the first Telugu movie releasing in 4 different languages worldwide.
58. Rana gained 32 Kg weight for this movie. (88 kgs to 120 kgs)
59. Baahubali will be first Indian movie which can match a Hollywood movie for its visual effect standard.
60. One movie that an entire nation awaits. It is a world class epic. India’s biggest motion picture.
At the end, Prabhasfansforever blog congratulate the director SS Rajamouli and his team for creating an extraordinary triumph like Baahubali. We all are proud of you. We salute you. God bless all of you. Must watch movie for everyone.Feel free to suggest more facts. Hope you enjoyed!
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