Comparatively, the best-performing Hindi films lately- Gangubai Kathiawadi, The Kashmir Files and Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2-have together grossed Rs 811 crore worldwide, including `566 crore net collections in India. And more recently, four successive super hits from the South- Pushpa: The Rise Part-1, RRR, KGF: Chapter 2 and Vikram (to a much smaller extent in Hindi as Vikram: Hitlist)-have grossed more than Rs 3,000 crore worldwide, including nearly `800 crore in Hindi net collections. The next Baahubali edition rolled in `1,416.9 crore. Released in 2015, Baahubali: The Beginning set the pace with an impressive lifetime gross of `500 crore in India to become the country’s highest-grossing movie at the time. As audiences lapped up Katappa ne Baahubali ko kyun maara?, a market was not just created in the North for theatrical releases of Hindi-dubbed south Indian films, but it also paved the way for them to hammer Hindi films in their home turf. The fictitious tale about two real-life Indian revolutionaries in the pre-Independence era grossed Rs 1,111 crore worldwide, including Rs 265 crore in Hindi net collections alone.īut before that, he stunned the country and beyond with his two-part magnum opus Baahubali: The Beginning and Baahubali: The Conclusion, and effectively altered Indian cinema’s timelines forever-as pre- and post- Baahubali. A shock of salt-and-pepper hair complements a black T-shirt proudly proclaiming ‘ RRR’, his most recent work, which set the cash registers ablaze. “At the same time, I was ridiculed because I went to the North with Eega and it didn’t succeed there,” says the 48-year-old director, appearing over a Zoom video call. As a fly trying to get his film to more audiences, he was called a visionary for taking a Telugu film to Tamil Nadu (in Tamil), Karnataka (Kannada), and Kerala (Malayalam) for the first time.

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