Baahubali: The Epic is something that hasn’t happened before – two epic parts of Baahubali were merged and released as a single film with a run time of around 3:45 hours. A new experiment, this seemed really exciting because SS Rajamouli created a modern-day classic which is still fresh in everyone’s mind even after 10 years.
There is definitely an an audience that wants to see this film for the “first time” in theatres as they nay have missed it earlier. But in case of Baahubali the majority of theatre goers have already watched it on the big screen and hence it’s primarily only die hard fans who will come to theatres again to relive the experience – may be with a group of friends.
The Telugu version had a better start with a weekend of around Rs. 22 crores since there is huge fan service for Prabhas and Rajamouli online in that circuit. However, in Hindi it was very selective footfalls despite a good release and hence the weekend was at Rs. 4 crores after a fair start of Rs. 1.15 crore and then the weekdays have got into the lakhs zone with five-day collections standing at a total of Rs. 4.35 crores.
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