Baahubali - The Epic (2025)

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Probably the most epic movie that will be released this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuxST3hEO5Y

Before SS Rajamouli took the world by storm with RRR, he was best known for another highly influential epic that stretched across two acclaimed films, the second of which remains the highest-grossing domestic movie in Indian history.

Now, in celebration of the first film's 10th anniversary, the director is re-releasing 2015's Baahubali: The Beginning and 2017's Baahubali 2: The Conclusion combined into a single movie, which he has personally re-edited — and with it, a new trailer (below). The resulting hybrid is titled Baahubali: The Epic, and will hit theaters across the U.S. on Oct. 31.

"Both Baahubali films were always imagined as one story, but it was too vast to fit into a single film, which is why we told it in two parts," Rajamouli exclusively tells EW. "For the 10th anniversary, I didn't just want to re-release what audiences had already seen. I wanted to create a new experience."

For the uninitiated, the Baahubali movies are an Indian cinema take on adult fantasy epics such as The Lord of the Rings, bursting with the director's signature flair for maximalism. Written by Rajamouli's father, screenwriter V. Vijayendra Prasad, the story combines tales told by the father to the son, along with elements from ancient Hindu texts that had long fascinated the director.

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