Baahubali stands to be one of the hallmark films in Indian cinema and the kind of cultural legacy that it could generate is untouchable even to this day. There are a handful of films that could collect more than Baahubali, but none of them have the kind of legacy that was churned by the Rajamouli film.
Now a new documentary on Netflix featuring the journey of Baahubali has surfaced in bits and eclipse on social media, and it is a story itself.
The final portion of this video features, Rajamouli, Prabhas, Rama Rajamouli, and Karthikeya, speaking about the initial negative reactions to the first part of Baahubali during the time of the release. At this point, Prabhas says this could have been in the end of the producers of the film, and also Rajamouli had the film really turned out to be a flop.
For those thinking that the failure of Baahubali could have been the end of Rajamouli, it would just not have stopped at that point. It could have very well marked the end of pan Indian cinema at that point.
In fact, Baahubali, which created a pan India sensation and brought this coin term to existence. If things went South for this film, then it would have taken years or perhaps even decades for a film of this scale to be produced and executed at such a level.
It was Rajamouli’s vision and determination, which made this film happen in the first place, and the kind of legacy that followed is all a tailgate effect.
It is scary to even think that a scenario could have eventually ended up in Baahubali turning out to be a disaster, and these repercussions are hard to process even to this day. It would not have just ruined a single project and the team associated with it, but also the cinema wave that started with it.
