Bahubali: Before The Beginning Scraps Rs 100 Crore, Netflix Pushes Rs 200 Crore Again
The all-time blockbuster film Baahubali 2 (Baahubali: The Conclusion) has completed 5 years of release. Till now the discussions of this film continue. Seeing the bumper success of this film, Makers had planned another project ‘Bahubali: Before the Beginning‘. It also has a story prior to Bahubali: The Beginning. In which Mahishmati Raj is preparing to show the story of the beginning of the life of Maharani Shivgami to the producer audience. This mega project was not to be produced as a web series of Netflix, but in the form of a film. For this, the makers worked hard and completed the shooting of the web project to a great extent.
Now a very shocking news is coming about this project. It has been heard that Netflix did not like the version of Bahubali: Before the Beginning so far and the streaming giant scrapped it completely. Surprisingly, with this, 100 crore rupees have been spent so far in making it. Netflix was not at all satisfied with the output of the project. In such a situation, the makers have decided to cancel it completely and rebuild it again to a new level.
The shocking thing is that with this, the manufacturers have doubled the budget for this web series project. Now Netflix is going to spend 200 crores for this project. SS Rajamouli and Netflix are co-producing this web series project of 9 episodes. Mrinal Thakur was to appear in the lead role of the show. Who was the character of young Shivgami. Now the shooting of his part has been completely canceled.
According to the report of Bollywood Hungama, the source said, “Netflix was not satisfied with what had been shot so far. Therefore, this project costing Rs 100 crores has been completely canceled. He has reworked the script. Starcast, the technical team will now shoot it all over again. Which is to be built on a large scale.
The source said, “They see Bahubali as a response to the Game of Thrones from India. So they want to work on this very closely. Its budget is now 200 crores. If the canceled Rs 100 crore is merged and it will take a full 300 crore rupees to make it. ‘It is not yet known whether Mrinal Thakur will be part of the reshoot version.
