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STORY: Rajamouli May Disappoint Big Stars
Updated : Jun 4, 2015
The trend, the voice and the bread-butter of film lovers at the moment is Rajamouli’s magnificent magnum opus Baahubali. Clocking more than 30 lakhs views for a trailer in couple of days, this 150 crore budgeted film became the craze everywhere. On a surprising note, the film might upset the big stars who are part of it. Wanna know why? Continue the story.
Already Bollywood is blowing the trumpet for Rajamouli before they rolled out a red carpet for him. In Bollywood, generally actors do promote the movie on their shoulders but directors walk away with the credits. Say it Karan Johar, Raju Hirani, Zoya Akhtar or Anurag Kashyap— directors do more talking with their content than their actors. Similarly Rajamouli’s films speak a lot about his vision and intense emotions that emulate his grip on story telling. If ‘Baahubali’ strikes a chord big time, then the director is going to be crowned with glory, which is already in the doing.
Bollywood audiences neither know Prabhas nor Anushka, nor Ramya Krishna, Nasser, Sudeep. Rana is somewhat known face but not a star, same is the case with Tamanna too. More than these big stars, Rajamouli carved a gigantic image for him, thanks to the success of ‘Eega’ earlier. Like we see Hollywood films, enjoy the plot, live in the tale, feel hair rising about the visual effects, happy with the ending and then forget about the people who played hero, heroine and side characters, even same thing might happen in the case of Baahubali up North. Except in Telugu and Tamil tinsel towns, erstwhile it will be show of the director only.
For now, all the lead cast of Baahubali are expecting to access a bigger market with the help of Baahubali. Rana and Tamanna aren't scoring big in b-town, so they need an enormous break there. Prabhas is debuting and same is the case with Anushka. Working under the shade of Rajamouli, all these stars will be able to garner attention only if they impress beyond the director’s screenplay and narrative. Otherwise, no credits will be awarded even if the flick is a blockbuster.
This is a classic case of any big ticket film, where audiences are more director-centric than hero-centric.
