'Baahubali' named Best Feature Film of 2015

Filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli's southern magnum opus "Baahubali: The Beginning", starring Prabhas and Rana Daggubati in the lead, was on Monday named the Best Feature Film at the 63rd National Film Awards in New Delhi.

Published: Monday,Mar 28, 2016 15:16 PM GMT-06:00

IANS

Filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli's southern magnum opus "Baahubali: The Beginning", starring Prabhas and Rana Daggubati in the lead, was on Monday named the Best Feature Film at the 63rd National Film Awards in New Delhi.

"Baahubali: The Beginning", which was a box office wonder, has been lauded for being an "imaginative film, monumental by its production values and cinematic brilliance in creating a fantasy world on the screen" by filmmaker Ramesh Sippy, head of the Feature Film jury.

"Baahubali" was even named for the award for Best Special Effects as these brought out the "emotional and dramatic upheavals of the story" in the movie.