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Shooting an action scene with thousands of extras (and doing so in the middle of a pandemic) was no small task. As star Ram Charan told The Indian Express, the scene took 35 days to shoot, with around 3,000 people on set. This proved particularly painful for Charan, who has had a dust allergy since childhood. “Look at my fate, I had to work in dust for 35 days,” he noted.
Despite the number of extras, and despite how dangerous the stunts look, nobody got hurt. As Charan explained to The Indian Express, there were over 30 days of rehearsals, and between 5,000 and 10,000 people on set on any given day. “That shows you the kind of intense rehearsals that went into it.”
The result is a scene straight out of a superhero movie, one that makes the stunts and the action in the Marvel Cinematic Universe look tame. Raju beating up hundreds of rioters, while still taking hits, is somehow grounded enough not to feel ridiculously over the top. For editor Sreekar Prasad, this was a challenge.
“[Rajamouli] had a tough time with the crowd as he had to convince everybody to bay for his (Ram Charan) blood,” Prasad told Cinema Express, adding:
“We had to make sure that Ram was moving through the crowd, and show him getting hit. It is to bring in some sort of realism. We couldn’t take too much time here as well, as it is not logically possible for him to fend them off for too long. All this was tough and this scene went through a number of versions of editing and fine-tuning before we arrived at the final scene you saw.”
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