Baahubali Director SS Rajamouli's Next To Be A Trilogy Based On Mahabharata?

SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali shattered all the box office records when it released in 2015. Now, everyone is eagerly waiting for the second part of the film which holds the key to the cliffhanger thrown in the climax of the first film.

Now, if the latest reports are to be believed then Rajamouli is set to kick off a trilogy based on the Mahabharata.  As per Mumbai Mirror, according to a source close to the development, the filmmaker, “couldn’t stop raving about the Mahabharata at an event recently, admitting that he was planning a film on a huge scale, using virtual reality extensively and recreating the epic with modern graphics.”

Buzz is that the film will go under scripting stage in 2018 and will be made over 5-6 years on a budget of INR 400 crore. The film is said to be shot in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi.  A source further added, “This time, Rajamouli plans to cast actors from the Hindi film industry as well as South stars.”

The 43-year-old filmmaker wrapped up the final touches on his second instalment of Baahubali: The Conclusion, last week. The epic historical war-drama, which was filmed in Telugu and Tamil and simultaneously dubbed in Hindi, hits screens on April 28. The two-film project took threeand-a-half years to complete and was mounted on a whopping budget of Rs 180 crore, which ballooned further when the second film went into production.

 

Upon its release in 2015, Baahubali: The Beginning, went on to become the first South film to gross Rs 650 crore worldwide, and the first non-Hindi film to gross Rs 100 crore in its dubbed Hindi version. It was also the highest grossing Telugu film of all time.