Bahubali 2- The Craze

In my late teens when I was young, always present in the moment and less distracted...in short the mobile was missing in my life. Facebook and WhatsApp were not the household gods then and people did not sit worshipping them whole day. Back then there used to be a luxury called TIME. Time to spend with one’s family without being glued to that smart phone, time to talk to one another, time to enjoy watching movies (which is what I am eventually coming to).

My favourite movies as a kid came from Tollywood, especially since I heartily enjoyed thinking out of the box and beyond imagination (pun intended)...like the hero splitting a bullet(yeah! one damn bullet) into 4 and killing all the four hoodlums in one go, that too while lying stretched on a horse’s back :)

So when recently I overheard a few women folks at the gym talking about how Bahubali 2 was making all the right noises, I decided to watch it on big screen, something that is as frequent to me now days as is the happening of the cosmic phenomenon called the Halley’s Comet.

Also, my FB page was full of posts of people feeling “blessed”, “lucky” or simply “happy” while watching Bahubali 2. From the kind females at the gym, I also heard that the movie was breaking a large number of box office records, but what I didn’t know was that it would nearly break my bones too as I tried hard competing with some 250 people who stood in the queue for the tickets of the movie at a theatre in my neighbourhood. Next, I tried to book my tickets online but it seemed that the entire website in fact the whole WWW.COM thing (yes the entire internet) crashed, since the servers were unable to keep up with crazy online traffic gunning for the movie’s tickets. Don’t mind the exaggerations! But I love fun facts so I am taking the liberty of sharing a few here. The authenticity of these facts however is what I won’t guarantee.

Talking about the Crazy queues for Bahubali 2 tickets - These lines are being recorded to almost reach the 1.5 km mark. Remember, the longest queue recorded outside ATMs during the #demonetisation days was no more than a km. What’s more the movie has become so popular internationally that it has now been dubbed in more than 100 different languages...English, Russian, Mandarin and many other languages including Khoisan (a language in central Africa having only 92 speakers worldwide).

I am told that the tickets are being sold in black for a whooping 10k at some places even as in many screens in Hyderabad (the original land of Mahishmati) the Shows are running 24x7 nonstop. Latest in until this article went into publication was that the Hollywood producer-director Steven

Spielberg has expressed his interest in buying the rights for the next three sequels of the movie.

What! You haven’t watched the movie yet, don’t worry neither have I ;)