The film, which was made on a budget of ₹ 120 crore (1.2 billion), released worldwide on 10 July 2015 to positive reviews from critics, became the highest grossing Indian film within India,[8] and became the third highest grossing Indian film globally. It became the first South Indian film to gross over ₹ 650 crore (6.5 billion) worldwide and the first non-Hindi film to gross over ₹ 100 crore (1 billion) in the dubbed Hindi version. It is also the highest grossing Telugu film of all time. Also, it is the highest grossing South Indian film at the global box office.
An international version of the film edited by Vincent Tabaillon was screened at various film festivals. The Telugu version garnered the Best Feature Film-Golden Lotus Award, and the Best Special Effects at the 63rd National Film Awards
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Plot
In the ancient Kingdom of Mahishmati in India, Sivagami, the queen (Ramya Krishnan), emerges from a cave adjoining a big waterfall, carrying a baby. She kills the soldiers pursuing her and sacrifices herself to save the baby. Local tribal communities save the baby and tribal queen adopts him. She also gives him name 'Shiva'.
Shiva (Prabhas) grows up to be a strong young man aspiring to hike the mountain and makes many unsuccessful attempts at it. He then finds a mask of a girl which falls from the waterfall. Driven to find out the identity of the girl, he climbs the mountain again and succeeds this time.
On top of the waterfall, Shiva discovers that the mask belongs to Avanthika (Tamannaah), a rebellious warrior whose group has indulged in a guerilla warfare against king Bhallala Deva / Pallvalathevan (Rana Daggubati) of the Mahishmati Kingdom. The group intends to rescue their former queen Devasena (Anushka Shetty) who has been chained in the kingdom for the past 25 years. Avanthika is given the opportunity to rescue the queen.
Avanthika falls in love with Shiva after she finds out that he has climbed the waterfall for her. Shiva pledges to help her in her mission and sneaks into Mahishmati to rescue Devasena. Shiva rescues her and flees along with her but is chased down by the king's Royal slave Kattappa (Sathyaraj), known for his great warrior abilities. After Shiva beheads Bhadra (Adivi Sesh), Bhallala Deva's son, Kattappa drops his weapons on realising that Shiva is Mahendra Baahubali, the son of late king Amarendra Baahubali.
A flashback reveals Amarendra Bahubali's past. Amarendra's mother died while giving him birth, while his father had died much before that. Sivagami takes charge of running the kingdom with Kattapa's assistance until a new king is elected. Amarendra Bahubali and Bhallala Deva are brought up together, trained in all areas including arts, science, disguise, politics and warfare, but both of them have different approaches towards kingship. Amarendra Baahubali is liberal to everyone but Bhallala Deva is violent and achieves his goals with any means possible, even trying to kill Baahubali.
When the Kalakeyas start a war with the Mahishmati, Sivagami promises that the new king will be the one who beheads the Kalakeya king. When it seems that Mahishmati would end up being defeated, Amarendra inspires his soldiers to fight to the death and they end up crushing the enemy. Despite Bhallala Deva being the one to kill the Kalakeya king, Sivagami announces Amarendra Baahubali as the new emperor because of his nobility and leadership in the war.
After the flashback, when asked about Amarendra's current whereabouts, a tearful Katappa reveals that the King is dead, and that Katappa himself is the one responsible for his death.
Cast
Prabhas as Shivudu alias Mahendra Baahubali and Amarendra Baahubali
Rana Daggubati as Bhallala Deva/Pallvalathevan
Anushka Shetty as Maharani Devasena
Tamannaah as Avanthika
Ramya Krishnan as Sivagami
Sathyaraj as Katappa
Nassar as Bijjaladeva
Rohini as Sanga
Tanikella Bharani as Swamiji
Adivi Sesh as Bhadra
Prabhakar as Kalakeyas king
Sudeep (cameo) as Aslam Khan
S. S. Rajamouli (cameo) as spirit seller
Nora Fatehi (cameo) as dancer in green blouse[12]
Scarlett Mellish Wilson (cameo) as dancer in orange blouse[13]
Sneha Upadhyay (cameo) as dancer in blue blouse
Rakesh Varre as Bhallaladeva's friend
Teja Kakumanu as Sakethudu
Bharani as Marthanda
Subbaraya Sharma
Adatya as Raj Guru
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