Bahubali is an ambitious and sincere
attempt to make an Indian blockbuster war movie. The central plot of the movie is a dispute
between brothers (Baahubali and Bhallaladeva)and their fight for
their thrown to the Mahishmathi Kingdom.
The story spans across 2 generations. This is first part of
the epic drama. The first half which is
weak compared to the amazing second half.
The story starts where Shiva as a
village boy and how he manages to climb
and cross-over the huge waterfall to
reach to tribal camp and meet the beautiful Tamannah.
In the first half, the director tries to add an element
of love in the war movie and creates few scenes
which are completely not required for
this film at least. Meanwhile, Rajamouli (
Director) narrates the story well, creates a battle plot till the interval and
movie go into flashback mode where
brothers fight for the throne in the
second half.
The strongest point of the movie
is an incredible battle sequence of the
second half and spectacular visuals created by Art director Sabu Cyril and cinematographer
KK Senthil Kumar.
The film sets the Indian movie bar high
in terms of creation landscape and the Mahismati
Kingdom. The beautifully-imagined
fantasy kingdom that has been created with
impressive detail and holds the audience
to the epic drama. In fact, the fake
waterfall and city are more believable than the real humans is the success of Rajamouli's
VFX team and cinematographer.
When
to you talk of screenplay, the writer of the movie
has done a fantastic job and in developing
the characters. The character named " Katappa"
has been established by first scene with his honesty and loyalty to the
throne. Another high point of the story
is the more evenly matched the protagonist and antagonist and the greater the
tension between them for the throne. Also, what's at the stake has been
answered very clearly by the writer that it's
the throne that they are fighting for.
Character-based
dramas tend to be the longest films
because the revelation of back-story always takes time, but here Rajamouli and his writer did a remarkable job in revealing the back story
very well. It is said that director should create
memorable entrances to get the grip of audience and scene, and u see that "this idea "has been very well used by
Rajamouli with massive entrances everywhere
across the movie.
The biggest success is handling
of support characters like Shivgami (Ramya Krishna
) Sathyaraj as Katappa. The movie
is a big hit if the audience starts
talking and getting interested in support characters. This is what is happening with "Bahubali" where support
characters being discussed a lot.
Rajmouli
"Bhaubali" is a visual story-teller, and everyone who loves visual effects
and larger than life sets and the gripping story would love it.
It's
worth watching the movie as It says too much, and yet leaves too
much unsaid for part two.
Note - Few killing senses may not go well with less than 5-year-old
kids.
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