Today

Stories linked to S. S. Rajamouli

Published reporting with preserved source evidence.

s s rajamouli portrait — Image: Dani Charles Silverscreen Media Inc. (https://silverscreen.in) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Craft · 18 Sept 2026

How do you direct a hero who is not on set? Rajamouli’s Eega problem

Eega’s premise was simple: a murdered man returns as a fly. Making the fly behave like a lead actor forced Rajamouli and his crew to rebuild how they shot, edited and reacted to a protagonist that did not physically exist.

jr ntr portrait — Image: Wikisorter · CC BY 4.0

Business · 18 Sept 2026

RRR had two launches: the box office and the West

RRR opened at blockbuster scale in India, then found an unexpectedly large second audience through international word of mouth, streaming and an awards run that ended with an Oscar for Naatu Naatu.

prabhas portrait — Image: Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0

Business · 18 Sept 2026

Before ‘pan-India’ became a label, Baahubali 2 made the market behave that way

Rajamouli’s sequel did more than post enormous grosses: it showed that a Telugu-led film could become a top-tier Hindi-market and national theatrical event without being remade first.