Words matter. These are the best S. S. Rajamouli Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Rajinikanth is humility personified. He’s a huge star in India, and people are dying to just see him on the screen.
Creating is one thing; telling the story is one thing. I see myself more as a storyteller than a story creator.
After the blockbuster ‘Magadheera,’ I made a film with comedian Sunil as the hero. If I am interested in making a film – big or small – I will go ahead and make it.
In theory I know that if you have a universal theme and a good story told well, it will work everywhere.
I really want to complete films in a shorter duration, but somehow it does not seem to happen.
Any hit films, impact-creating films, leave their mark on the industry. It is in human nature to try to follow something that is creating an impact.
A star is different, and an actor is different. But there is an actor in every star, and they, too, look for challenging roles to satisfy the actor in them.
I am now confident about attempting a Hindi film. I believe if you have a good story to tell, audiences will watch it.
In childhood, we used to read stories from the Arabian Nights. Why were we so interested when it happened somewhere in Arabia, in a different culture? Until now, we hadn’t gone to the Hindi audience with a good story.
As a film enthusiast and a lover of stories, I have read biblical stories and I’ve seen biblical films with the same zeal as I have read and seen my own country’s stories. Most of the time, the creator doesn’t know where he gets his inspiration from.
‘Mayabazar’ was the film I immensely loved as a kid. Only when I became a filmmaker about 20 years later did I realise its technical marvel and what a great epic it was. I and my visual effects supervisor, while making ‘Yamadonga,’ took two days to understand the magnification shot of Ghatothkatcha’s persona.
I can’t analyse the secret of success. In my style of working, I stick to the basics and make stories revolving around the hero.
I did work with Ajay Devgn and Kajol, who did the voiceover in ‘Makkhi’. I wanted a couple with easily identifiable voices but with an image for being family-oriented. Ajay and Kajol fitted the bill. You get a good feel about them.
No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind.
Indian epics are full of violence, and such stories have shaped India. As filmmakers, I don’t think anyone in India would tone down violence, keeping in mind the censorship.
150 shooting days is quite normal, which is not the case in Hollywood, as I am told. Most of the big films there are done in 70 or 80 days.
I shoot a scene, edit it, and then, two days later, I doubt whether or not it has turned out right. I reshoot a small part of it, go back to the first edit of it, and do all sorts of things.
People like to see Ravi Teja as a vibrant, massy character. We needed to do something more. So I gave him the extra flavour of the cop character and high emotions. And Ravi did a good job.
After ‘Maryada Ramanna,’ I wanted to make a quick film on a shoestring budget.
I don’t believe in luck. Everything is our doing or undoing. If something doesn’t come out right, then as a director, you have to take full responsibility. You can’t just say, ‘No, I gave this job to the music supervisor. They promised me they would do it, and they didn’t do it.’ You can’t blame anyone else.
‘Bahubali’ is not about big budgets, big visuals, or massive marketing. If a hero, producer, and director in Bollywood can have that kind of trust, something even bigger than ‘Bahubali’ is possible.
I was very happy when I was doing my first two films: ‘Student No.1’, ‘Simhadri’. I had absolutely no doubts – I would just place my camera at one point and say, ‘That is the right way.’
If we make films only for the frontbenchers, we can’t make money. Hence, we have to make it for a majority audience. As my films are mass films, I deal with emotions in raw form – they are not subtle. I don’t mind being branded. That does not mean I like only those kinds of films.
‘Bahubali’ did not happen overnight. The producer Shobhu Yarlagadda, Prabhas, and I kept talking and discussing and imagining.
When I was in Mumbai for the promotion of ‘Makkhi,’ I met Ajay Devgn, Kajol, and Shah Rukh Khan, and I wanted to meet Aamir Khan. He was shooting out of India. I also met my favourite director, Raju Hirani. All of them showered praises on ‘Makkhi.’
