Social media is right now abuzz that director SS Rajamouli has copied his own story for the film “Baahubali” and tweaked it a little before sugar coating with visual effects. Here it goes.
A short story for you first – “A super caring mother has two sons, one is an adopted elder son and other one is her own offspring. And she develops more affection on the elder one, which isn’t being liked by the younger sibling. Finally, the younger one succeeds in planting bitter stuff about his brother in Mother’s mind. As Mother now hates the elder one, younger one feels happy. Climax of the story is how elder one makes mommy realise that he’s a good guy and the ensuring ending for any revenge drama”
More than finding shades of Rajnikanth’s Dalapathi here, you’ll say that this is straight away “Chatrapathi” story. What if the name of the mother is Sivagami, elder one is Amarendra Baahubali and younger son is Bhallaladeva. It’s the same story, isn’t it?
While Vizag refugee camp shifted to Mahishmati, initially Sri Lanka is the place where Sivudu hails from. Except changing story line and order a little, adding few more characters, many feel that both Baahubali franchise and Chatrapathi have the same story line.
There are those screenplay experts who say that there are only seven types of stories in the world. Seems like Rajamouli got struck with one.
