S.S. Rajamouli has taken the box office by storm with his Telugu-Tamil bilingual, Baahubali: The Beginning (2015), its sequel Baahubali: The Conclusion (2017), and more recently RRR (2022). Giridhar Jha of Outlook speaks to the 48-year-old director with the Midas touch. Excerpts:
With your epic scale films, you seem to have bucked the trend of small budget, content rich films. Why do you prefer these big ones?