Firstly, the film shows how a taut script can work wonders. Why? After all it’s just another love story from the Mahabharata with a magical premise that has its heroine replaced by a male illusionist demon. Mayabazar “the greatest classic and absolute influence of all times, not only on me and my generation of filmmakers, but the entire Telugu film industry.” Rajamouli, one of Telegu cinema’s most popular and influential 21st century filmmakers, calls Its success has since been abundantly repeated. Ranga Rao and Savitri was a welcome change to ‘the mythological template’ in how it humanised the gods for the first time. Mayabazar, starring some of the now legendary actors N.T. Of all Indian regional cinemas nowhere has the ‘mythological film’ survived the longest as in the cinemas of south India, and especially Telugu cinema, where it was a dominant genre right up to the 1970s.
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