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Talk of The Week: 'Bahubali 2: The Conclusion' comes to town
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Bahubali 2: The Conclusion, the sequel to the wildly popular Indian film Bahubali: The Beginning, an epic fiction film directed by S.S. Rajamouli, will be coming to Jakarta, pleasing the lucky Bollywood fans in the city. The film was released on Friday on 9,000 screens worldwide, 1,100 screens in the United States alone.
In India, the film has taken the cinema world by storm as people formed a three-kilometer line at 7 a.m. in Hyderabad on Thursday for the Friday show. Another city wanted to screen the movie at 4 a.m. and the tickets were all sold out. The price of tickets went up five times on the black market. The film pocketed US$3 million in presales in the US.
Rajamouli’s magnum opus was produced in Hyderabad, the center of Tollywood (the Telugu film industry is called Tollywood), in Telugu and Tamil simultaneously and was dubbed in several languages, like French, Hindi, English and Kannada.
The story of the film starts when Shiva (Prabhas), the son of Baahubali, learns about his heritage and begins to look for answers. His story is juxtaposed with past events that unfold in the Mahishmati Kingdom.
To mark the film’s launching in Indonesia, the Indonesia Tamil Sangam will host a screening of its Tamil version on Saturday at 4 p.m., while the India Club will screen the Hindi version of the film on Sunday at 4 p.m. Both screenings will be conducted in the CGV Cinema in the Grand Indonesia Shopping Mall in Central Jakarta.
