The record for Indian opening weekend was also held by Happy New Year with $17 million but Bahubali collected $22.8 million.
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“Baahubali”, literally meaning “The One With Strong Arms” in English, also enjoyed one of the most successful opening weekends for an Indian film in the United States, collecting 4.4 million Dollars, according to “Variety”.
While there are several Bollywood films that do not make it till 50 Cr in its entire lifetime on the silver screen, here is one film that has been dubbed in Hindi but is still giving a tough competition to all the other Hindi films at present. Baahubali’s success has put the spotlight on talent from this region as the film was shot at Hyderabad’s Ramoji Studios.
Speaking to an interview, Rajamouli said that, he might make changes in Baahubali 2 script for the betterment.
Elizabeth director Shekhar Kapur, who started out directing acclaimed Bollywood titles such as 1987’s Mr India, praised Baahubali in a tweet.
The most talked about multilingual film “Baahubali” has finally hit the theatres and as expected the film received an overwhelming response from the audience right from the beginning. The film would have probably garnered higher revenues, agree film-makers.
South Indian films are also known to push the envelope in terms of visual effects, and Baahubali is seen as a game changer, raising the bar for Indian films.
My VFX supervisors Srinivasa Mohan, Pete Draper of Makuta and Sanath of Firefly are highly talented, focused and know every trick of the trade.
It opened to mixed reviews from Telugu critics but the viewers across the globe boosted the film’s popularity by good word of mouth promotion.
Earlier this year, the spectacle made a triumphant comeback-with Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller’s film about a world all churned up, so pop but with a Conradian heart.
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“Just got back from Switzerland and caught the phenomenon “Baahubali””. But for reference, we looked at the period before the invention of gunpowder or fire power. Showing some of the finest graphics we have ever seen, Baahubali’s shows the epic war between two brothers to become the ruler of their kingdom. For example, Madan Karki developed a new language for the Kalakaye tribe in the film.
