Director SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali: The Beginning, which was released in as many as 4,000 screens across the globe, is said to have taken the box office by storm beating many previous records of collections. Touted to have been made with a budget of Rs 250 crore, we hear that the film collected between Rs 60 crore and Rs 70 crore on the first day of worldwide release, and the collection is expected to touch Rs100 crore in the coming days.
Starring Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Tamannaah and Anushka Shetty in the lead roles, the film is about two brothers fighting over an ancient kingdom. Released in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi, the film has been getting an overwhelming response from audiences all over. Going by what sources say, the film has set the biggest ever opening for an Indian film, pushing even Bollywood films like Dhoom 3 and Happy New Year.
The film has been made in such a way that it explores the true talent of Telugu cinema, which can prove that it is equally capable of churning out commercially successful films and content driven ones, simultaneously. On the other hand, after the movie’s worldwide release, Baahubali seems to be running headlong into another hurdle with the accusations of art director Manu Jagath.
Manu Jagath, who has previously worked in films like Calcutta News, claims that he is the real art director behind the period sets of the epic film and was cheated out of the title in the credits of the film. The credits mention only prominent art director Sabu Cyril. However, according to the claims of Manu Jagath, Sabu Cyril was only the production controller for the film.
Manu Jagath had been previously posting concept art sketches of the sets during each phase of the film as a promotional effort. However, the dejected art director recently posted a sketch with the word ‘got cheated’ boldly written over it in red as a cover photo to protest his omission from the art director’s credit.
