The frenzy over SS Rajamouli`s Baahubali 2 has reached epic proportions, with fans across the globe queuing up in massive numbers at theatres to watch the magnum opus. Not just in India, where the film has reportedly been released across 6500 screens, film buffs abroad are equally excited about the Prabhas-Rana Daggubati starrer, reports India Today.
According to some reports, the Indian fantasy sequel has even out-grossed the Tom Hanks and Emma Watson-starrer The Circle at the American box office this weekend.
Not surprising then, that more than 40 Bangladeshi fans leaved Dhaka to India to watch the film in its very first week. The group flew down to Kolkata in a chartered flight on Monday from Dhaka to catch the evening show of the film at a south Kolkata multiplex. "We have been waiting for two years to know why Kattappa killed Baahubali! I`m a diehard Bollywood fan. We took the morning flight to get here to Kolkata to watch the evening show," said Tasleen, one of the fans who travelled from Dhaka to watch the film.
"Baahubali 1 was a huge hit. Even we were wondering why Baahubali was killed in the first part of the series. So we had to watch part two for the answer. Many of our friends who have watched it in India wanted to tell us the answer but we asked them not to since we wanted to watch it ourselves," another Bangladeshi fan, Farzana Brownia, said.
Not just cine fans, but exhibitors are also thrilled with the unprecedented cross-border response. "We haven`t seen such craze for any film in recent memory. It`s a complete frenzy and the box office numbers are insane. We are starting every day with a morning 7.30am show since the release, and even that`s housefull," claimed Subhasis Ganguli, Regional Director of Inox in east India.
Source: India Today