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A World of Indian Mytholgy in Baahubali

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There's a bee in my bonnet that keeps buzzing around all day! The scenes and sounds of Baahubali keep coming back to me with new insights every time...I was checking my movie apps just wondering how full the movie halls are now after 9 weeks and got a jolt seeing that the epic movie has been taken off screens from yesterday...To drown my sorrow I resorted to viewing the downloaded version (which I had resolved not to see till now...okay..I did cheat sometimes..)  I got reminded again of what I had promised myself to write some time back...about how Baahubali borrows some characters from Indian mythology. It's no secret and S.S. Rajamouli also says that his characters are inspired from Amar Chitra Katha..It is interesting to unravel what he must have thought while etching out each character... Baahubali = Rama + Lakshman ?! So I'm talking about Amarendra and not Mahendra...S.S.R always calls Baahubali as 'My Ram'. We can relate to that feeling. Rama t