On Friday, streaming media giant Netflix announced the cast of their much-awaited India original series Baahubali: Before The Beginning. As the title suggests itself, the digital series is a prequel to ace filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli’s epic films Baahubali: The Beginning (2015) and Baahubali: The Conclusion (2017).
The prequel will be based on the first book of a proposed trilogy, The Rise of Sivagami, by Anand Neelakantan. Popular television actress Mrunal Thakur, who was recently seen in critically acclaimed film Love Sonia (2018), has been roped in to play the titular matriarch Sivagami, a character immortalized by Ramya Krishnan. Actor Rahul Bose has been signed on to play Skandadasa. Besides Mrunal Thakur and Rahul Bose, the cast also boasts the presence of Atul Kulkarni, Vaquar Shaikh, Jameel Khan, Siddharth Arora, and Anup Soni.
Baahubali: Before The Beginning will be set fifty years before the first movie and seventy-five years before the second. It will predominantly revolve around the character of Sivagami. Talking about the character, producer Prasad Devineni, said that the series will dig deeper into the powerful character while expanding the series back-story and introducing new characters and locations.
"We grew up watching a lot of Hollywood films by a lot of auteurs and that gave us our start," Katta said at the event. "It's about making it more experiential, that's the vision of the story."
Netflix has joined forces with the team behind Baahubali, including Arka Media Works and director S.S. Rajamouli.
Baahubali: Before The Beginning is most likely to premiere in 2019 on Netflix.
Perry's onstage quip about "Englishmen" felt like a deliberate signal.
Those yacht photos are, frankly, undeniable.
It started with a Montreal dinner most people missed.
Both are out of long-term relationships.
Well, she’s as good as confirmed it, hasn’t she? Katy Perry just tossed a verbal grenade into her London concert, and the pieces all point to Justin Trudeau. That line about Englishmen? You do not say that by accident. It lands just days after those, let's face it, pretty steamy pictures of them surfaced on her boat. This Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau thing is suddenly feeling very real, shifting from rumours to a full-blown celebrity romance.
Katy Perry’s stage moment sparks worldwide fan theories about a secret romance Getty Images
So what did she actually say?
Mid-show at the O2, looking out at the crowd, she hits them with this: "London, England, you’re like this on a Monday night?... No wonder I fall for Englishmen all the time."
Pause.
Then came the kicker: "...but not anymore." The place erupts. It was too specific, too perfectly timed. And then, almost as if scripted, some fan proposes to her. Her comeback was: "I wish you’d asked me 48 hours ago." What is that, if not a nod to a new, serious someone?
Let’s talk about the yacht. The Daily Mail got those shots and, while grainy, the story they tell is crystal clear. The photos were taken off the coast of Santa Barbara, on her 78-foot Caravelle. He is pulling her in, kissing her cheek. His hand was on her backside in another frame. This follows that low-key Montreal dinner in July that almost flew under the radar.
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Where does this leave everyone?
Right, let us look at the context. Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom only finalised their split recently, with the co-parenting news coming out in July. Justin Trudeau’s marriage to Sophie Grégoire also ended last year. Both are prominent figures with busy lives who have only just become single. Sources are already saying he has been "persistent," flying to see her on tour breaks. It has the feel of something that is accelerating fast. And Perry, with that London comment, seems ready to let it.
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