Baahubali (English: The One With Strong Arms) is an upcoming two part Indian epic film written and directed by National Award winner S. S. Rajamouli. Produced by Shobu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni simultaneously being made in Telugu and Tamil languages. There will be dubbed versions in Hindi and Malayalam. Baahubali features an ensemble cast of Prabhas Varma, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty and Tamannaah in the lead roles, and Ramya Krishnan, Sathyaraj, Nassar, Adivi Sesh, Tanikella Bharani and Sudeep in crucial roles.
The film is presented by K. Raghavendra Rao, while K.E. Gnanavel Raja (Studio Green) is presenting the Tamil theatrical version, Karan Johar (Dharma Productions) is presenting the Hindi theatrical version, and Global United Media is presenting the Malayalam theatrical version. The soundtrack and background score for the film is composed by National Award winner M. M. Keeravani, National Award winner Sabu Cyril designed art for the film. while National Award winner V. Srinivas Mohan is the Visual effects supervisor.
The project is touted to be the most expensive production in the history of Indian cinema.Baahubali also one of the few films featured in BBC's documentary on 100 Years of Indian cinema directed by Sanjeev Bhaskar.The film was shot using Arri Alexa XT camera marking Rajamouli's first film using digital camera and the principal photography began at Rock Gardens in Kurnool on 6 July 2013.Before the film proceed to its audio release, a small 20 sec teaser of the movie has been released on 30 May 2015 The trailer of the movie was released in Youtube on June 1st and got over 2 million views within the first two days.[15]The first part of film is expected to be released on 10 July 2015.