Rajamouli Spills Beans On Baahubali’s Casting & Pre-Scripting Stage

Reminiscing about the conception of Baahubali, Rajamouli said, “We (Prabhas and I) worked on a film 10 years before this and we have been close friends. We would chat for hours and hours together deep into the night, just not about Baahubali, but different aspects of filmmaking, the philosophy of filmmaking.”

“We strike a chord with each other, we understand each other very well and he knew that I had a burning desire to make a war film and he was game for it.”

Rajamouli said Prabhas kept himself free for over three years for the film.

“In fact, he was so much into it, when I asked for his dates for one and half year for this film, he laughed and said you can never make this film in one and half years and he kept himself free for three and half years. In the end, it took five years to make it and he was there for us,” Rajamouli said.

Prabhas was there even before the makers started writing the characters.

“I mean we took Anushka or Sivagami or Kattapa, we took the actors based on the characters that were written, but with Prabhas, the character was written for him,” he said.

Baahubali 2: The Conclusion has surpassed box office records in India. Baahubali 2 (Hindi) collected around 385 plus crores and it grossed more than 1250 crores worldwide.

Post Baahubali Prabhas will be next seen in an ambitious hi-tech action drama titled Saaho. The movie will showcase high-octane action sequences for which the makers have roped in a world acclaimed action choreographer. Saaho is being shot simultaneously in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu.