Superstar Mahesh Babu’s Srimanthudu had completed the entire shooting part including the patch work on Thursday. The unit members have also performed the traditional Pumpkin breaking ceremony which marks the end of the shooting.

Currently the dubbing works of the movie are going on. The audio release event of the film is scheduled for 18th July and the movie is marked for August 7th release. Koratala Siva had to struggle a lot to take his second film on to sets even after delivering a blockbuster like Mirchi with his first.

Mahesh Babu is also raring to go at the box office especially after those back to back failures with 1-Nenokkadine and Aagadu in 2014. Shruti Hassan is romancing Mahesh Babu in this film, she was last seen shaking her booty for an item song in Aagadu.

The movie has Jagapathi Babu playing father of Mahesh Babu. Popular Overseas distributors Mytri Film Makers are turning producers for this film. Yerineni Naveen, Yalamanchili Ravi Shankar (Thammudu) and CVM (Mohan) are the producers. Devi SriPrasad will be composing the music.

One name is being heard synonymous with ‘Baahubali’ now. As this magnum opus is entirely shot within Ramoji Film City, it is widely believed that Ramoji Rao has invested a huge chunk into it. With every local to international media houses talking about RFC and how Ramoji Rao helped Rajamouli realize his dream, no doubt the rumours around the ETV honcho are doubling.

Probably the way Ramoji Rao is encouraging Baahubali right from the start is the reason for these mushrooming gossips. Because every other time Ramoji led Eenadu Daily is coming up with a bunch of full page articles on ‘Baahubali’.

From Rajamouli’s interview to art director Sabu Cyril’s interview, lyricist Anant Sriram’s special write-up to a cover story on VFX supervisor Srinivas Mohan, it looks like Ramoji is making hefty promotion on the movie. Some say that Ramoji has invested huge in Baahubali and hence such a wide promotion. Insiders however have rubbished this concept.

They say that if Ramoji Rao has produced the film then he would have named himself as producer on the posters, what’s there to hide? Probably he is looking at promoting Baahubali like a win-win situation. Every time Baahubali is talked about then it is highlighted that the whole film is made within Ramoji Film City campus.

If Eenadu writes about Baahubali technicians, then Ramoji Film City gets promoted automatically as everyone keeps talking about it. That way his encouragement has some justification, otherwise if he is producers we would have seen RFC logo on the teasers by now.

Anyway, this divide talk on Ramoji Rao’s involvement in the film is helping the flick get huge hype. Because Ramoji is no small man and if he’s promoting a film means there is huge stuff in it.