Time and again, Rajamouli faced these plagiarism charges whenever his new movie comes out. The famous 100 members fight in Magadheera was accused to be a blatant copy of 300 movie’s war scenes, while the infant-boy poster of Baahubali is mere rip off ‘The Simon Birch” poster, they say. On these whole accusations, Rajamouli tried to clarify.
Speaking with a leading news channel in a special interview, Rajamouli said, “What I’ve done in all these years is not a copy of other’s work. Maybe I’ve some few scenes and shots copied”. In a way he agrees that he copied, but not intentionally, only as some shots he watched years back linger in his mind.
“While growing up I’ve watched many Hollywood films, and now that I’m making films, sometimes I get to insert scenes from those films rather unknowingly”, he adds. Jakkanna explained that the shot where Sivudu keeps his foot on Kattappa’s head is actually copied from Hollywood movie based on Genghis Khan (1965 release). “Not many noticed that it’s a copied shot, but several other original shots got attention from people”, laughs Rajamouli.
At the moment, Baahubali is inching deep into 500 crores club and could be seen as the best possible entry to Oscars from India. However Rajamouli is quick enough to claim that he’s not expecting any Academy Award for the film.
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