28 May 2015
Hyderabad

Rajamouli: We planned to launch music of Baahubali in Hitex Grounds in a huge scale amidst fans on the night of 31 May. We had oral agreement from police when we planned. But yesterday evening, the police department expressed reservations about protecting so many number of people. There had been unpleasant incidents in music launch functions of Baadshah, Mirchi and Gopala Gopala in the past. Cops have given permission to hold the function with limited number of guests. We didn’t want to disappoint Prabhas fans by doing an audio launch with limited guests. Hence we took the call of calling off music launch on 31 May. We have not decided the further date of music launch. However we plan to launch Hindi trailer of Baahubali as per plan on June 1st. Hindi trailer is different from Telugu trailer in content and presentation.

Prabhas: A family film like Mr. Perfect took an year to make. On that scale, Baahubali is made in a quick time of two years.

Rajamouli: The publicity and hype for Baahubali has reached the saturation point. We don’t need audio function to be an avenue for publicity. The main reason for music launch is to take Prabhas to fans. Prabhas was seen in a public platform long back during the music launch of Mirchi.

Sobhu: We went to Cannes Film Festival to understand the international market. Some people have shown interest. But nothing is materialised on international front. We have shown clippings of 10 minutes duration to selected audiences at Cannes.They are very impressed about it. Karan Johar and Anil Thadani are going to jointly distribute Hindi version of Baahubali.

Baahubali progress:
Rerecording is 95% over. Sound Mixing is done. We are in last leg of post production. Shooting of Part is complete. Runtime of part 1 is going to be 2:35 hours. 70% of shooting of Part 2 is over