The advance booking lines stretched for a kilometer and a half. Multiplexes are screening 25-30 shows a day for the rest of the week. Every theatre in RTC X Roads is playing the same movie (does anyone remember this happening before?). Prasads this morning was more like a temple on a festival morning – people coming in all their finery with families and all of them looking up to the screen like they would a deity to grant them their boons.
Just how does one succeed in the face of such humongous expectations?
Rajamouli must have been aware of all these. Acutely....