SS Rajamouli dismisses reports of making Mahabharata

After the mammoth success of ‘Baahubali 2’, rumours of SS Rajamouli converting Mahabharata into a film broke out. This happened after the director said it was his dream to make a film on the epic some day. However, he denies that anything like that is in the pipeline right now.

“I am not making Mahabharata. I just said that my dream is to make Mahabharata but it is a long time to get to that,” Rajamouli said.

“I haven’t started anything. I am just taking a break. It will be sometime that I will be starting to work on my next project,” he added. (Also Read: SS Rajamouli and Sridevi bury the hatchet, team up for a film?)

‘Baahubali: The Beginning’ came out in 2015 and was a smashing hit. But ‘Baahubali: The Conclusion’ which released this year, took the box office by storm that we haven’t witnessed before. The film became an all-time blockbuster and broke every possible record at the Indian box office. With this, many hoped for a third edition of the franchise.

But the director has no similar plans.

“We started the film with a fantastic story, and we finished it with these two films. So, there is no further story. I know we have a fantastic market and I know I will make hundreds of crore (with the franchise) but that wouldn’t be honest filmmaking,” he said.

We will wait till he gets down to making the next masterpiece.

Inputs from IANS

Ranjini Maitra

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