Blockbuster Filmmaker SS Rajamouli May Start 'Mahabharata' After Mahesh Babu's Next

Hyderabad, July 10 - Blockbuster filmmaker SS Rajamouli is working on the script of his next film starring Mahesh Babu in the lead. The script, which is being written by Rajamouli's writer father V. Vijayendra Prasad, will soon be completed.

After Mahesh Babu's film, tentatively titled "SSMB29", Rajamouli may start his dream project which is the cinematic adaptation of the epic "Mahabharat". Writer V. Vijayendra Prasad teased a couple of big projects of SSR in a recent interview.



The writer said that Babu's film will be much bigger and better than "RRR" which was released last year and made SSR and actors Jr. NTR and Ram Charan global sensations. Vijayendra Prasad in an earlier interview said that they leaving an open ending climax of "SSMB29" to turn it into a franchise.

SSR has time and again said that Mahabharata is his dream project and will need more movie experience to bring it into reality. Now, Vijayendra Prasad said that Mahabharata may very well be SSR's next project immediately after "SSMB29", and for which there is still enough time to ponder with.

The "Baahubali" filmmaker previously said that "Mahabharata" is such a big project that can be made into 10 feature films but he needs to direct more films before turning his focus on the epic.

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