No one caught my copied scene- Rajamouli

Right from the release of the first poster of baby Baahubali, Rajamouli’s magnum opus was compared to many films from which the director is alleged to have taken inspiration or copied the basic concept of few scenes from Hollywood movies. It’s for Rajamouli to say whether they are copy or inspiration, we don’t know.

Rajamouli accepts that he also copies certain scenes and takes inspiration from others. But some scenes which he made genuinely without influence or copy, sometimes bear surprising resemblances somewhere else. While the cine observers are divided on which scene is a copied one and which one is influenced, Rajamouli himself talks about a scene he copied.

In his childhood he saw a Ghengis Khan movie where he finds a physically well-built man takes the leg of the hero and keeps it on his head. Rajamouli couldn’t get over the scene and for his every movie he used to ask his father if he could incorporate a similar scene.

The very popular Kattappa scene when Satyaraj keeps Baahubali’s (Prabhas) leg on his head is influenced by the Genghis Khan movie. Rajamouli is amused that no one caught that influence, most probably because no one here saw that very old movie.