SS Rajamouli is the founding father of Rs 500 Crore Club as Baahubali 2 (Hindi) achieves exceptional feat...
Over the years, even though A.R. Murugadoss [Ghajini] and Rajkumar Hirani [3 Idiots & PK] have set the records for the 100 Crore and then 200 Crore & 300 Crore Clubs respectively, a very good share of credit has gone to Aamir Khan since he has been the common factor in each of these benchmarks that have been set in Bollywood. The superstar deserves that as well since he has time and again backed filmmakers with their vision and then ensured that his marketing acumen adds on to the buzz and hype around the final product.
However, in case of Baahubali 2 [Hindi], it would be an exception where it is actually the filmmaker at the hot seat who is gaining top credit for opening a new club. The epic war drama has gone past the 500 crore mark and with this, SS Rajamouli is being deservingly crowed as the Founding Father of the 500 Crore Club. This is for the first time ever when a big budget film has been sold primarily on the name of the director.
While Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty, Tamannaah Bhatia, Sathyaraj and Ramya Krishnan have been the major contributing forces towards making sure that Baahubali as a brand stayed in news right from the time the first part released (in 2015) to now when the second part arrived (2017), it is to the credit of director SS Rajamouli that the film has found such tremendous response.
Especially for the Hindi version, one also has to give good credit to Karan Johar and Anil Thadani (of A.A. Films) for presenting and distributing the film to the kind of scale that has been unprecedented. Just in the Hindi version the film released in over 4000 screens, something that only a Khan film has seen so far.
As for the all India presence across languages, the film arrived in around 7000 screens, something which has never happened before in the history of Indian cinema.
Talking about just the Hindi version, the film is still running strong and is finding audiences, many of whom are now giving it a repeat dekko. While the 500 Crore Club has now been marked hard and strong, the film still has some ammunition left to bring on 10-15 crore more to its final tally.
Baahubuster!
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