LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The 2022 release of RRR introduced director S.S. Rajamouli to the United States and won an Oscar for the song "Naatu Naatu." Now, Rajamouli's previous films arrive in U.S. theaters Friday as Baahubali: The Epic.
The Epic combines 2015's Baahubali: The Beginning and 2017's Baahubali 2: The Conclusion. In a recent Zoom interview with UPI, Rajamouli said the two-part film paved the way for RRR.
"I was able to make RRR because of Baahubali," Rajamouli said. "Baahubali is the film that took me from one level to the next level where I could either bring in big superstars or dream big or make action sequences that have bigger budgets."
In Baahubali, Prabhas stars as Siva, a man who was rescued as an infant when a woman crossed a river holding the baby's basket above water. Raised by a village tribe, Siva grows up and sets out to rescue Princess Devasana (Anushka Shetty) from the evil King Bhallaladeva (Rana Daggubati).
During the rescue, the king's slave general Kattappa (Sathyaraj) recognizes Siva as the son of warrior prince Baahubali, missing since his grandmother rescued him as an infant.
