The movie is touching and cute. But the message about “true inner beauty” and  so on was annoying at times. The movie is a meretricious celebration of those standards. Anushka tries to convey the message ‘appearance is nothing’ but the shell and the movie is nothing but a class on diet and excercise.

Technically, it blasts open the hypotheses of cinema and goes where few have attained earlier. There is enough here that will excite and beatify fans. But there’s also a lot in it that exacerbates normal crowd. For a visually game-changing film, Rajamouli opts for a folklore and love story that are way too common and at times, even moth-eaten. There’s an overall lack of feelings in Baahubali. With that said, maybe a duology is just too much to ask of “Baahubali”, and hopefully Baahubali – the conclusion will be more superior to the part one.