YMMV / Baahubali

• Cliché Storm: Almost every storyline in this movie is a rehash of tropes that had been around for centuries. Notably, a lot of the tensions echo the Mahabharata. It's a testament to the skill of the filmmakers that they managed to make two highly interesting movies in spite of it.
• Complete Monster:
  • Bijjaladeva ^{Other Appearances} Before the Beginning trilogy, by Anand Neelakantan; The Lost Legends is the self-centered older son of Mahishmati's Emperor Somadeva. Abusing his subjects, Bijjaladeva regularly conducts torture and casually tries to rape a slave girl, leading to her suicide. His frequent bouts of cruelty making Somadeva pass him up for the throne, when his father and brother die, Bijjaladeva schemes to ensure his own son Bhallaladeva is named Emperor to rule as he desires. Feeding his son's hate, when Bijjaladeva's nephew Amandera Baahubali is made Crown Prince he frames Baahubali as a traitor to be exiled, later having him killed and wiping out his wife's kingdom. As advisor under Bhallaladeva, rebels are whipped to death and citizens are robbed to fund an ostentatious golden statue, and when it nearly falls while being erected, Bijjaladeva states he hopes the "sacrifice" of the hundreds stuck beneath will keep it intact.
  • The Beginning: Inkoshi is a chief of the Kaalakeya tribe known for murdering all the men and raping all the women in settlements he captures. Setting his sights on Mahishmati, Inkoshi later meets with Queen Mother Sivagami Devi, and swears to murder both of her prince sons before taking her as his personal Sex Slave. When Sivagami's sons launch a counterattack on his camp, Inkoshi has his men use captive Mahishmati citizens—including children—as Human Shields.
• Even Better Sequel: The first film was already a groundbreaking film shattering box office records, getting rave reviews, and worshiped by India's filmgoers as the EPIC FILM of India. The sequel surpassed the first legendary heights the original set in every way. Though some critics complained that the sequel tried to compensate for slightly lacking in story with action setpieces, this is understandable when you consider that they were actually a single movie at first, but the filmmakers were forced to cut it in half because the Indian Censor board refused to allow a 4 & 1/2 hour film.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Japan is insane over this movie after discovering it, regularly hosting cheer screens for theater showings and in general impressed with the action, choreography, and over the top events of the films.
• Signature Scene:
  • Shivagami carrying a baby Bahubali across the river... while drowning underwater, propping him up with her dead arms.
  • One of the more memorable scenes from the film is Shiva and his comrades using a coconut tree as a slingshot to enter Mahishmati.

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