Bahubali is sometimes too complicated a film to comprehend and often it's the immersive game-changing epic it promises to be. In between these two realms, lies the subjective chances on liking or disliking the film.
Handing out a family glossary of characters, their names and their relation to each other for quick reference, is something the production house must seriously contemplate (à la Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy). The film is so vast, intricately detailed, encapsulating an elaborate array of characters, their peculiarities and themes, which makes it extremely difficult to be concise in lucidly putting it to words.
With all its flaws and the spectacles he orchestrates, Bahubali belongs to Rajamouli who risks envisioning something this magnanimous. It is a cinematic treat put together on screen that is ground-breaking indeed but has pitfalls you need to bear to be able to savour the after feeling.