S.S. Rajamouli Says ‘Very Few People Knew Answer To “Katappa Ne Baahubali Ko Kyu Maara” While Shooting’
It doesn’t look like the India’s Biggest Movie ‘Bahubali’ fever will ever die. The first film, Bahubali: The Beginning(2015), created enough hype and mystery with its cliff-hanger ending, where Bahubali’s trusted servant Katappa killed him, in a shocking twist.
There was one question in everyone’s mind, “Why Katappa Killed Bahubali?”, “Katappa Ne Bahubali Ko Kyu Maara?”
This later became the ‘question of the decade’. After watching the National Award winning film ‘Bahubali-The Beginning’, everyone was left with the same question, but couldn’t get an answer. It made the whole nation curious between 2015 and 2017, thus making ‘Bahubali-The Conclusion’, the most awaited movie of the year.
For the entire time period between the release of Bahubali part-1 and Bahubali part-2, nothing really could beat the intensity of this question. People kept the guessing game on and waited for almost 2 years to find the answer.
Meanwhile, media and journalists tried their best to quiz everyone among the cast and director SS Rajamouli himself for the answer. The answer was however guarded very successfully and nobody gave a clue to it. In fact, even many of the crew members don’t know the answer to the question and the director managed very well to keep the secret within him.
Though the audience got the answer in the second film, Bahubali-The Conclusion, Rajamouli now reveals that very few people knew the real answer to the question. In a recent interview, the director was asked, “How many people knew the answer to that question ‘Katappa Ne Bahubali Ko Kyu Maara?’ And was it hard to keep that secret?”
He said that it wasn’t very difficult to solve the mystery had viewers seen the film twice with their mind completely engaged. He said, “When we talk about why Katappa killed Bahubali, it is not such a difficult question to answer. If you just look at the film twice and put a little bit mind to it, the answer is evident. Even when people were tweeting to me, there were many people who got it right.”
“But the actual question is not why Katappa killed Bahubali, what they mean by that is how Katappa killed Bahubali, you know that is what people are actually asking. How could he do it? And that answer is not easy to guess,” he added.
The 44-year-old filmmaker threw light on how it remained a secret even on the sets. “Very few people, maybe around 10-15 people would have known the entire story. But what happens with your unit is that you’re shooting for such a long time, you’re shooting for about two years and we were not shooting in a chronological order, it was one scene here one shot there.”
“And again when we are shooting, we are shooting so many layers for each shot and the unit members don’t really know what we are actually filming. It is impossible for them to connect all the dots. It’s easy to keep them confused and it’s not willfully done, that’s the pattern how it’s done. That’s the reason why none of the rest of the unit members actually knew the answer,” Rajamouli said.
However, after the second of Bahubali franchise released, the film went on to break and create many records at Box Office in India and also the entire world. Prabhas, Rana Daggubatti, Sathyaraj, Anushka Shetty, and Tamannaah who played the lead roles in the movie became the global stars.