The much hyped and the much awaited movie of the century, Bahubali is here and I had the opportunity to watch it last weekend. It is touted to be the most costliest Indian movie ever. There was extensive use of CGI (Computer generated Images) and a lot of hype about how the protagonist and the Antagonist in the movie had worked really hard to attain certain physique specifically for this movie. Well that's anyways the norm these days, look different for each movie. And to check out what all the hype and noise was about this movie, I finally watched it last weekend. A last moment booking but I'm glad I did. Mind you, the only difference was that I didn't check-in on FB while at the theater to let the world know im watching the movie at that moment, you'll get to know shortly why I added this one important piece of information in this review.So to begin with, I have to say it was an incredible effort by S.S Rajamouli to come up with this idea, put in so much hard work and finally make it a reality. This happens to be the only movie to make Rs. 100 crores in record time. It took only about a week to get there. A very commendable effort. I just couldn't identify a single flaw in the movie, the actors were amazing, the direction, the CGI used, the whole set up, story line everything, everything was spell bounding. The fact that it comes from Tollywood, the Telugu film industry is a matter of pride.
Prabhas, Rana, Anushka, Tamanna and specially Ramya Krishna did a spectacular job. It was so nice to see Ramyakrishna back to acting. The movie was deliberately made in two parts. The first part was ended so abruptly that it left the audience with a hunger to find out what happens in the second part. A master stroke again by a master director. The story line was great, the songs were so so, but the direction was spotless.
The Actors: A lot of hype was created about how Rana and Prabhas worked their asses off to attain a specific physique. Good job I tell you, but it was more mass than definition. I personally work out tremendously and in my point of view, all they did was just widen the torso(the coveted V) and developed huge shoulders and arms, but no visible definition. Its a personal opinion but kudos to the actors for all the dedication and hard work.
The highlight of the movie for me was Ramyakrishna, the power she showed in her acting was speechless, worthy of many of those prestigious awards. In fact, her acting was so good that I had good pimples in one of the scenes where she admonishes the character Nasir plays for trying to influence her to do something against her will.
The screenplay and direction: SS Rajamouli, take a bow, you have really overtook everyone else and brought out a masterpiece. This is one movie which will be talked about for a long long time. I will not go into technicalities or the storyline because I don't want to mess it up for anyone who is yet to watch the movie.Overall an incredible effort and surely a feather in the hat of the indian film industry. It is proof that we dont always make hero or heroine oriented movies and that we can push the boundaries and make epic movies like this.
What did I think about the movie? Personally it was a little bit of a meh moment for me. For a regular Hollywood movie watcher, this is just another one of those highly animated movies. The resemblances to the movie Troy were just uncanny. The epic war scene, the boundary of soldiers to take on the oncoming enemy, all of it looked very similar to how it was done in Troy. I know I shouldn't be drawing comparisons like this, its just that when you could use such high level of graphics and everything else, why not break boundaries and make something different. Of-course for a regular non-Hollywood movie watcher this is surely an epic and since that was anyway the target audience, it worked great. We are now comparing ourselves to other film industries and so I feel that with all the available technology and most importantly the budget, they should do something which was never done before. This could actually act as a platform over which they can build better movies. Magadhira was the first such period movie the sorts of which was never seen before. It deserved to be the hit that it was, Bahubali also falls in the period movie category what with all the kings and queens and epic battles but apart from the fact that the level of graphics was more, it was ok. A lot better could be done.
So overall I would say this is one of the most amazing movies I have ever watched. Extraordinary considering it is from an Indian film industry. I would definitely recommend everyone I know to watch it in a theater.
Wishing all the success and awards that this incredible movie deserves and looking forward to the next part to be released in 2016.
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