The last time Bollywood tried making a big-budget film, it turned out, as Shirish Kunder famously said and later regretted, to be a 150-crore firework that fizzled. Bollywood managed to expose itself by botching up several fantasy films, costume dramas and big-budget productions. Even Ram Gopal Verma, has audaciously turned the knife, saying other directors may die of envy and, if Rajamouli doesn't make another film in the next few years, there may not be an industry left.įrankly, it didn't take Baahubali to show up Bollywood for what it is. He has called Rajamouli the "BAAP" of all directors in India. Karan Johar has been quick to salute the mother of all entertainers. are some of the words hurled at Bollywood by Twitter bhakts of Baahubali. 'Shame', 'Learn from South, Beware', 'Wake up', 'Over paid', 'Hyped up'. Since July 10, when Baahubali - an event, not a mere film, as its fans proclaim - was released, Bollywood is getting drenched in a waterfall of scorn.
Unfortunately, there is nobody to grasp the rope and break the fall. Like the mammoth statue in Rajamouli's film, Baahubali is falling down on many myths around Bollywood. What we know is how Baahubali is demolishing Bollywood's pride: by exposing its temerity to dream big, failure to craft spectacular, big-budget blockbusters and the embarrassing inability to come up to the level of Hollywood. We don't know how Baahubali will destroy Bhallaldeva in the concluding part of SS Rajamouli's film.
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