Rajamouli shares the scenes deleted in Baahubali The Epic

Prabhas, Rana's Baahubali The Beginning and Baahubali The Conclusion which left all stunned is now releasing as a single picture as Baahubali The Epic on 31 October 2025.

The makers have been promoting  the film and in a video Rajamouli revealed the scenes that he deleted from the two parts. He said ‘By merging both parts and removing the rolling titles, the total duration would have been around five hours and 27 minutes. The current version, however, runs for three hours and 43 minutes. Major portions that were removed include Avanthika’s love story with Shivudu, the songs “Pacha Bottesina”, “Kanna Nidurinchara”, and “Irrukupo”. Several sequences from the war episodes have also been trimmed.’

He continued ‘Every scene in ‘Baahubali’ carries emotional weight and narrative importance, but we wanted the new version to be purely story-driven. The first cut was about four hours and ten minutes long. We held a special screening for both cinema and non-cinema audiences from different backgrounds, took their feedback, and then reduced it to three hours and 43 minutes.’

On Baahubali The Epic, he said  ‘We came up with this idea five years ago — to see if the story could be told as a single film. We tried a linear narration; it didn’t work. Then we shortened scene lengths, that didn’t work either. Finally, we decided on removing episodes.’