Director and writer S. S. Rajamouli had a wonderful inspiration for this movie. He told Idlebrain: "My father Vijayendra Prasad prepared a story for a film titled Jagadeka Veerudu with Krishna as hero in the direction of Sagar. They didn't like that concept and it was turned down. I was working as an assistant to my father at that time. I always wanted to do that story and it required huge budget.
When I was granted big budget from Allu Arvind for Charan's movie, I picked this subject up. I watched DVDs of Alfred Hitchcock's TV series before making Magadheera. What intrigued me is that he reveals the entire plot in the beginning and still be able to maintain the suspense by showing how the protagonist does it. It became an eye opener for me. That is the reason why I revealed the story of the movie right on the film's launch."
The reincarnation theme is about four people:
Kala Bhairava (Ram Charan), a valiant warrior and bodyguard for the royal family who is reborn as motorcyclist Harsha.
Princess Mithravinda Devi (Kajal Aggarwal), who is in love with Kala, who refuses to admit it, and returns as Indira.
Ranadev Billa (Dev Gill), the leader of the army who lusts for both power and the princess, reborn as Rajasthani monarch Raghuveer.
Emperor Sher Khan (Srihari), who wants to conquer the kingdom, and the fisherman Solomon.
The film may start in 2009, as Harsha meets and falls in love with Indira. Meanwhile, Raghuveer has also become enraptured by her and is the first to realize that all of their fates are intertwined. It takes a near-death experience -- and the murder of his father at the hands of Raghuveer -- for Harsha to relive his past, including an epic chariot race and a battle to defeat a hundred of Khan's soldiers that ends in tragedy before we come back to the present, a place where no one's fate is set.
Just like Karz, reincarnation is central to this movie. It's also a film packed with CGI and big ideas. It was so popular that it became the first Telugu film in India to have a blu ray release. Even in the U. S., on just three screens in New Jersey, it made $150,000. It may also feel a lot like Gladiator and 300, but the idea that it's pushing to look as grandiose as those films left me exhilarated. The battle against the one hundred soldiers is just incredible and must be seen.
When I was granted big budget from Allu Arvind for Charan's movie, I picked this subject up. I watched DVDs of Alfred Hitchcock's TV series before making Magadheera. What intrigued me is that he reveals the entire plot in the beginning and still be able to maintain the suspense by showing how the protagonist does it. It became an eye opener for me. That is the reason why I revealed the story of the movie right on the film's launch."
The reincarnation theme is about four people:
Kala Bhairava (Ram Charan), a valiant warrior and bodyguard for the royal family who is reborn as motorcyclist Harsha.
Princess Mithravinda Devi (Kajal Aggarwal), who is in love with Kala, who refuses to admit it, and returns as Indira.
Ranadev Billa (Dev Gill), the leader of the army who lusts for both power and the princess, reborn as Rajasthani monarch Raghuveer.
Emperor Sher Khan (Srihari), who wants to conquer the kingdom, and the fisherman Solomon.
The film may start in 2009, as Harsha meets and falls in love with Indira. Meanwhile, Raghuveer has also become enraptured by her and is the first to realize that all of their fates are intertwined. It takes a near-death experience -- and the murder of his father at the hands of Raghuveer -- for Harsha to relive his past, including an epic chariot race and a battle to defeat a hundred of Khan's soldiers that ends in tragedy before we come back to the present, a place where no one's fate is set.
Just like Karz, reincarnation is central to this movie. It's also a film packed with CGI and big ideas. It was so popular that it became the first Telugu film in India to have a blu ray release. Even in the U. S., on just three screens in New Jersey, it made $150,000. It may also feel a lot like Gladiator and 300, but the idea that it's pushing to look as grandiose as those films left me exhilarated. The battle against the one hundred soldiers is just incredible and must be seen.