Baahubali: The Beginning
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The young Shivudu is left as a foundling in a small village by his mother. By the time he’s grown up, it has become apparent that he possesses exceptional gifts. He meets the beautiful warrior princess Avanthika and learns that her queen has been held captive for the last 25 years. Shividu sets off to rescue her, discovering his own origins in the process.
What critics thought
Critics embraced Baahubali as a landmark of Indian spectacle filmmaking, singling out S.S. Rajamouli's choreography of action and scale as genuinely world-class. The main fault line was the story itself — widely acknowledged as familiar, even formulaic — with several reviewers arguing that the mythic narrative only fully ignites in the second half, after the interval. Where critics agreed most was that the 45-minute battle climax and the film's final shot lift it above its weaker stretches.
“The broad brushstrokes storytelling and the director's over-fondness for slow-motion sequences are among the film's failings but this is still a rousing film, easily accessible epic. There's rarely a dull moment in Baahubali: The Beginning, part one of a gung-ho, crowd-pleasing Telugu-language epic that has been shattering box-office records throughout India.”
Allan Hunter·Screen Daily
“Right from its opening frames, Baahubali holds out many promises: of adventure and romance, love and betrayal, valour and weakness. And it delivers magnificently on each of them. This is full-tilt, fully-assured filmmaking of a very high order. Baahubali is simply spectacular.”
Shubhra Gupta·The Indian Express
“wide-eyed and wondrous, his film could be a blockbuster reboot, or the first blockbuster ever made, a reinvigoration of archetypes that is always entertaining, and often thrilling, to behold.”
Mike McCahill·The Guardian
“Baahubali: The Beginning is a remarkable achievement. What Rajamouli has pulled off here, despite its flaws, is nothing short of a miracle, especially when you take into account India's notoriously risk-averse filmmaking environment”
Suprateek Chatterjee·The Huffington Post
Genres
Action, Drama
Cast & Crew
S. S. RajamouliDirector
PrabhasMahendra 'Sivudu' Bāhubali / Amarendra Bāhubali
Rana DaggubatiBhallaladeva
Tamannaah BhatiaAvanthika
Anushka ShettyDevasena
Ramya KrishnanSivagami
NassarBijjaladeva
SathyarajKarikala Kattappa Nadar
PrabhakarKing Kalakeya
Adivi SeshBhadra
Kichcha SudeepaAslam Khan
RohiniSanga
M.M. KeeravaaniComposer
Vijayendra PrasadWriter
K.K. Senthil KumarCinematographyBaahubali: The Beginning
The young Shivudu is left as a foundling in a small village by his mother. By the time he’s grown up, it has become apparent that he possesses exceptional gifts. He meets the beautiful warrior princess Avanthika and learns that her queen has been held captive for the last 25 years. Shividu sets off to rescue her, discovering his own origins in the process.
What critics thought
Critics embraced Baahubali as a landmark of Indian spectacle filmmaking, singling out S.S. Rajamouli's choreography of action and scale as genuinely world-class. The main fault line was the story itself — widely acknowledged as familiar, even formulaic — with several reviewers arguing that the mythic narrative only fully ignites in the second half, after the interval. Where critics agreed most was that the 45-minute battle climax and the film's final shot lift it above its weaker stretches.
“The broad brushstrokes storytelling and the director's over-fondness for slow-motion sequences are among the film's failings but this is still a rousing film, easily accessible epic. There's rarely a dull moment in Baahubali: The Beginning, part one of a gung-ho, crowd-pleasing Telugu-language epic that has been shattering box-office records throughout India.”
Allan Hunter·Screen Daily
“Right from its opening frames, Baahubali holds out many promises: of adventure and romance, love and betrayal, valour and weakness. And it delivers magnificently on each of them. This is full-tilt, fully-assured filmmaking of a very high order. Baahubali is simply spectacular.”
Shubhra Gupta·The Indian Express
“wide-eyed and wondrous, his film could be a blockbuster reboot, or the first blockbuster ever made, a reinvigoration of archetypes that is always entertaining, and often thrilling, to behold.”
Mike McCahill·The Guardian
“Baahubali: The Beginning is a remarkable achievement. What Rajamouli has pulled off here, despite its flaws, is nothing short of a miracle, especially when you take into account India's notoriously risk-averse filmmaking environment”
Suprateek Chatterjee·The Huffington Post
Genres
Action, Drama
Cast & Crew
S. S. RajamouliDirectorPrabhasMahendra 'Sivudu' Bāhubali / Amarendra BāhubaliRana DaggubatiBhallaladevaTamannaah BhatiaAvanthikaAnushka ShettyDevasenaRamya KrishnanSivagamiNassarBijjaladevaSathyarajKarikala Kattappa NadarPrabhakarKing KalakeyaAdivi SeshBhadraKichcha SudeepaAslam KhanRohiniSangaM.M. KeeravaaniComposerVijayendra PrasadWriterK.K. Senthil KumarCinematographyStream
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