#magadheera

Are the non Indians watching RRR even aware that this quote from the director exists?? Have they watched Rajamouli's previous works like Magadheera and Baahubali to even realise that the tropes and themes he used for the romantic heterosexual lead couples in those films were given to Ram and Bheem?

DO THEY KNOW THERE WAS AN ON SCREEN MARRIAGE RITUAL PERFORMED????

What if the hottest man alive in the 1600s

Got reincarnated as a weird millennial and tried to find his girlfriend from 400 years ago?

In the last picture he’s literally walking into a telephone pole because he’s an idiot

In 400+ submissions many worthy and noble (also some dastardly and evil) men (and orcs and elves and hobbits and the like) were admitted to our fair Tourney.

These are... not them.

No indeed, 20 men (and one... unit?) of those submitted failed to qualify for the tournament, for diverse reasons. They were therefore turned away and tossed on the Near Misses Pile. But the spirit of competition still burns within them, and they have erected a makeshift tilt on the outskirts of the Tourney Grounds.

In the first round, our 21 competitors faced off, in two polls of 10 and 11 respectively. The four highest voted contenders from each side have advanced and will also face off in two polls of 4 and 4.

The semi-finals saw the remaining four competitors face off to determine our finalists.

And here they are:

Kuwabatake Sanjuro [Mifune Toshiro], Yojimbo (1961)

VS.

Kala Bhairava [Ram Charan], Magadheera (2009)

We wish them the best of luck in their fruitless endeavour!!!

A timeless classic, truly, and definitely did a number on my brain chemistry as a kid, and was the most expensive Telugu movie at the time (budget-wise). Sure, the plot was weird, and it had its ✨ISSUES✨, but for what the cast and crew did, it was good. The songs, however, are iconic even to this day, and as I was watching the music videos, I noticed something.

But before I talk about that, if there's anyone here who doesn't know the plot, here's just enough for my headcannon today, go watch the movie on youtube.

So we have a pair of tragic lovers from way back in the past (time period ambiguous) called Kala Bhairava and Mithravinda. They don't get to confess their love to each other before they die, and so vow to do just that in their next lives, which is the present day (circa 2009).

Enter Harsha, who keeps getting flashbacks to this past life when he makes physical contact with Indu, but he doesn't know who she is or what she looks like. Cue shennangians.

Now back to my analysis. Here is my first point.

Which is that, clearly, Kaala Bhairava and Mitravinda were some kinky motherfuckers because no, this wasn't the only thing they were doing in that song (the sex metaphors were getting out of hand at this point).

And this brings me to my next point,

And that is that Harsha also has (at minimum) a knife kink passed down from his past life. (Additional context: In this song, he was on some strong stuff and thought this nice lady was his girlfriend. The one he still has to rescue from ✨unfortunate circumstances✨.)