‘Disaster’: SS Rajamouli reveals the pure terror and Rs 70 cr deficit behind Baahubali | Telugu News
For a film now remembered as one of the defining moments of Indian cinema, Baahubali came close to being seen as the industry’s biggest disaster, according to new accounts from its cast and crew in the new docuseries, Baahubali: The Torchbearer, which was released on Friday in Netflix. The trouble began with money. “If we had known beforehand that both the parts would need Rs 400 crores, Baahubali would’ve never been made. No doubt about it,” director S.S. Rajamouli admitted. Producer Shobu Yarlagadda, who backed the film through Arka Mediaworks, explained there was no fixed budget to begin with. “We did not have a budget in mind. We would think of what would be the best possible cost without compromising on the director’s vision. And whatever it took, we were putting in,” he said. His co-producer at Arka Mediaworks, Prasad Devineni, called the fundraising process itself “crazy.” “I think the most expensive film in Telugu cinema till then was Magadheera. Now we were talking about raising almost five times the budget of that film. Sometimes …
