BahuBali eyeing rs 1,000 crore

The makers of the costliest Indian film till now made on a budget of Rs 240 crore, are eyeing for a record gross collection of Rs 1000 crore when it hits screens worldwide on 10 July. Sources close to the film’s producers Shobu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni said Bahubali will enter the Rs 1,000 crore-club. Starring Telugu actors Prabhas and Rana Daggubati as the protagonist and the antagonist respectively, the film is likely to be released on more than 2,000 screens. Director S.S. Rajamouli, who took six years to complete the film, is loaded with requests for dubbing it into different languages including Chinese and Japanese. Made in Telegu and Tamil, the bilingual flick has been already dubbed into Hindi and Malyalam. There are also plans to turn it into an animation. Noted for its advanced visual effects from China and the United States, the first of the two-part movie has made an on-table business of around Rs 350 crore with its distribution rights being sold to top distributors across India. Noted filmmaker Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions is supposed to have acquired distribution rights in North India and overseas for a whopping Rs 150 crore. “I am very nervous and eagerly waiting for the audience response all over the world,” Rajamouli told

His earlier visual effects based film

( in Hindi) had grossed more than Rs 150 crore. “I like to make films on a larger than life canvas, and I made by exploring a story line given by my father V. Vijayendra Prasad (also a film director),” he added.

President Pranab Mukherjee, who is touring Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, has said that the “city of Hyderabad belongs to all and the two states need to work together.” His message is being seen as an advice to Chandrababu Naidu and K. Chandrashekhar Rao, Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana respectively, to de-escalate tension that has surfaced following the