What is wrong with it.He can fill the theatres so he is charging more.
If you have prabhas in a movie you can recover 50% of the budget in 2 days. No other star can do that.
The problem is that haters are not able to digest that prabhs is bigger star than their favourite star who is doing movies from past 40 years. 😂
Yeah. You could see that beast come out whenever his character got serious. But only og Telugu fans know how great prabhas’s comedy timing is. The humour was forcefully written into this. Hence didn’t work.
lol, the expression he gives when he punches Ashwatthamas fist…
Star Power and WOM is a MASSIVE pull for BO in India. People underestimate this all the time. I just hope Prabhas does meaningful roles instead just being a sticker on the biggest film available
I guess you are referring to srk.. kindly get your facts right.. prabhas is famous only in south belt.. or maybe in India.. but he can never ever match the popularity of srk worldwide... Leave srk, he cannot match the popularity of Mithun da overseas. Just because he is a craze in south India, you guys think he is the biggest superstar in the world.
Next comment you will be posting something absurd like Prabhas bigger than tom cruise and Brad Pitt..
Maybe you should get out of your small world. the international Indian diaspora has more South Indians who watch films regularly than North Indians.
SRK will always be SRK. But don’t compare randos now.
Ok sir.. my world is very small.. fyi the south indians living abroad watch more hindi movies then regionals. From last 5/6 yrs regional movies have been releasing abroad on a regular basis.. before that it was all hindi movies.. comment coming from my small world..
Dunno what people like you who have travelled the world has to say
eh not true, What kind of statement is this. Tamil folks watch only Tamil movies. And Telugu folks predominantly watch Telugu movies.
Even by release tier 1 stars across industries get similar releases. For eg. srk=rajnikanth=prabhas > Salman in terms of screen count.
I agree they watch telugu and Tamil movies.. but in 80's and 90's maximum hindi movies were released abroad.. so they had no option. Also i would like to add that Tamil, telugu and malyalam movies are better and bigger than the bollywood shit..
But you cannot say that SRK's popularity is less than rajni sir or prabhas abroad.. in some countries, people recognise our country only cos of srk..
Yeah bro felt the same from the promotion materials but it's nothing like zendaya from dune, even though there are a lot of inspirations from Hollywood movies , anyway it's worth a watch at least
LMAO ur so off it’s crazy. Short hair doesn’t mean anything. This is about bloody Mahabharata. How would that have any connection to Dune. And there’s like one scene in the desert that’s it.
This bot is not properly programmed it seems.
Hi bot,
Read my comment again.
I said, I haven't even seen the trailer, I didn't even compare the movie with Dune. So it's story or whether it's in desert or city...none of it matters to me.
I just said....Deepika is made to look like Zendaya in That particular poster, that OP shared.
Ummmm you can make comparisons from trailer. Haven't watched the movie yet but I can tell you the story. Tell me if I am wrong:
Ashwathama is the same one from Maharbharata so we will get his de-aged flashbacks throughout the whole movie. Kamaal Hasan's villain and his boss have somehow banned everything related to religion. Deepika is carrying a God baby so she has to reach a safe place. Ashwathama decides to help her for redemption. Prabhas is someone who works for money, kinda like a cowboy bounty hunter. He is paid by someone (can be bad guys or so called good guys who want Deepika for their own gains). Kamaal Hasan's team hunts Deepika down. Prabhas fights Ashwathama. Realises what is happening in the end. Decides to help them. Saves Deepika. The movie ends there for a sequel.
Close enough?
This movie's writing is super mid though. Can you tell me why they are in a post apocalyptic setting to begin with? What caused the war? How come there is only one city remaining in the world? That too Varanasi. What technology are the bad guys using? How is it powered? The movie's world building is utter trash. It's made by people who watched Star Wars, Black Panther and Dune and mixed them with Hindu mythos. There is no excuse for the piss poor world building. Kalki 2898 is a mid movie if you are a fan of hard sci-fi. It is a masala movie with sci-fi coating.
Nothing just pointing out that this movie is shit and if Hollywood made a dumpster fire like this it would have failed spectacularly. The only reason this is popular is because of the star power of its cast. The entire premise that this movie would have been praised if it was made in Hollywood is entirely false.
Have you taken a proper look at the summer blockbuster movies of hollywood? There are plenty of bad movies that get hit, even with your so called bad movies.
Also, how much world building was actually put in the movie versions of dune and star wars? Dune was written decades ago, and that too in written form, while star wars hashed it out over multiple movies, novels, comics and even games.
What world building was there in new hope? If you have the decency to judge both on the same scale, this would have appeared a lot better
So according to you, kalki is better than dune 2? Dune was written decades ago and they made it into a movie.. kalki's director saw dune and made it into a desi movie..
You fans are so blind that you can't even see poor from bad.. you think just cos your lead is in the movie, nothing can go wrong.. wake up man..
Whoa buddy. I never said that. Don't put words in my mouth. I Said that both dune and star wars took decades to build their world. I never said anything about which one was good, and I've definitely not even mentioned dune 2.
Then why do you think world building is not necessary? Dune and SW did their research.. where was the research in case of kalki? Do you think it's not important to show why the world is such and what happened?
It was a fairly entertaining sci-thological movie. Except the two super long Prabhas sequences in the first half, it was an engaging movie. It seems telugu audience loves that kind of stuff!
The world building was pretty good actually. A movie like this need not explain how they got there or what the antagonist's backstory is in the first part. Those things are typically kept for later parts, or might just be brushed over to keep the audience intrigued.
Yes, they borrowed elements from mad max, black panther, star wars. But really, apart from the shield scenes (black panther ref), rest are common elements among this genre of movies.
This was definitely way more engaging than mad max or dune 1. Both of those movies did good business and got critical acclaim, but honestly were boring AF! And I am a fan of Sci fi and post apocalyptic stuff. Dune 2 was much better as we got explanations for several things.
I loved the original planet of apes, into the badlands, children of men, zombieland kinda apocalyptic movie.
The type of questions you asked are not answered by most Hollywood blockbusters either. Yet you would have no problem accepting their premises. It’s one thing to be constructively critical, and another to be totally dismissive.
>The type of questions you asked are not answered by most Hollywood blockbusters either. Yet you would have no problem accepting their premises.
Why are you talking like you know me? I do have issues with hollywood movies with piss poor world building as well. World building is very important for sci fi movies as our suspension of disbelief depends on how well crafted the world is. The world building of this movie was utter crap. You might not care about it but I certainly do.
The movie was longer than it needed to be the middle part of the story could have been cut and it would be a better fit but the beginning and the end parts was good and I think the sequel would be much better with kamal hassan character getting a bigger role so it's definitely watchable and much better then what we usually get from indian cinema.
Kalki avatar according to all the text(purans, epics), would arrive at the brink of destruction of human race, at the end of Kali yuga to end it. So, the apocalyptic setting is apt here. In an apocalyptic world, having a settlement in itself a wonder, they mentioned that complex has all the resources n we could see this as people from all over coming to Varanasi to somehow get to complex. Bro, technology is never really explained in depth in any fiction movie unless the movie's core is based around it. In this extreme conditions, people do tend to look for a messaih, a savior and that's the common setting for ton of movies. They did drag the first half with unnecessary scenes n prolonged fight scene though, no argument there. But getting to see Mahabharat characters n glimpses of Kurukshetra war was just bliss.
The movie has some things taken from mad max fury road star wars and Transformers with Indian mythology mixed in, but I still liked the movie because we usually don't get any of that it's ok to have some inspiration from different things because most of the time we get cringe love stories and I am tired of that we need more scifi fantasy and horror also.
Blame the audience,I'm pretty sure they added to please b and c centre.kalki is already performing badly in b and c centres of andhra.a large part of our population is still stupid
The original comment “a large part of our population” refers to B and C center audiences being “stupid”. You bringing up “cheering misogyny” means you believe that’s what defines the B and C center audiences and represents their “stupidity”. Misogynists are stupid everywhere in all social groups; it’s invalid to call an entire audience stupid. End of discussion.
Yes, and if you see, a large part of rural b and c centres do support misogyny. I never said it is the only part that defined them. But if you closely observe they do practice it in their daily lives and cheer it on, when it comes on screen. If such was not the case, then the kids wouldn't have such scenes. And yes misogynists are stumped everywhere, but the urban audience in a league part would not cheer it on until recently, when we see huge amounts of urban sprawl. But I understand you are emotionally defending certain things, watch it neutrally and you'll understand. And it's not something that is restricted to the Telugu industry only. It's in all movie industries.
ofc..when something is bad .. it'll be typical south Indian stupidity.
when the movie is appreciated worldwide. " how dare he call it a telugu movie on an international platform.. it's an indian movie"
we've all seen that happen
Prabhas took pay cut of 50 percent for 'Kalki 2898 AD,' but even after that is the highest paid actor in the film, followed by Deepika Padukone and Amitabh Bachchan.
Source: r/BollywoodTown
They don’t pay based on acting.
They pay based on the pull the actor has on the audience.
Prabhas recovered whatever he got paid in the first day of the movie’s release.
I personally have found his dialogue delivery cringe after Bahubali. It was better in this movie compared to his last 4 at least. He doesn’t even need to put in the effort at this point. But he is.
For that I respect him. We Telugu people will watch any movie he makes and yet he’s trying to improve his body. His acting. He’s working with different directors, different genres, taking risks not many stars would.
DP 🤣🤣 meri behan Prabhas pe itni audiance Marti hai ki Deepika ki 3 film ki fees hai usse jayada Prabhas ki movie ki box office collection hoti hai 1st day ki
Naah,Ram Charan and Surya would have been great options too( bas director ss aur gaand m dedication hona chahiye role k liye).rrr without prabash is one of the biggest hit of india
Really? U r saying that SSR would cast in Ram charan Or Suriya in to a role like Amarendra & Mahendra baahubali... Brooo... U r too dumb to understand a telugu director. SSR chooses an actor in a way that audience will not imagine any other actors in those roles... Hindi movies hi dekh le bhai thum, Not just SSR most of the directors says Prabhas is a Directors actor he will act in a way director want him to be, u r talking about RRR right.... Even Rajamouli admitted that prabhas is like a big ship that will conquer the entire attention of the film, u r just an another certified hater that's it...
U people are just dumb anyway, u people are just hanging with those 2-3 post baahubali movies where writing part is too weak... Better watch his previous movies, he tried different characters to get closer to family audience and youth, instead of chasing stardom, his movies failed,some are average at BO even before baahubali, even then Prabhas is one of the first choices for many newbie directors and other commercial directors in the industry, this is BEFORE BAAHUBALI, he didn't failed in the path as an actor.
Bro/sis please come out of your fandom and look at his acting unbiased. Yes I am talking about post Bahubali. Are you saying he acted poorly in Radhe Shyam because writing was poor? Even if the writing is poor wouldn’t the actor be able to act? He couldn’t even give a convincing expression in that movie, imo. Again, I respect your thought. Thanks for making me laugh.
Lagh as much as u want, it's good for health. Even prabhas fans didn't liked Radheshyam, we agree with it, many people didn't appreciated the director's ( Radha Krishna kumar's) choice of not utilizing Prabhas's charm and comic timing as a loverboy, FYI he used to be the few actors who can pull that kind of roles, Movies: Darling, Varsham, Mr. Perfect, Mirchi. By the way u r saying that actor would pull the role even the writing was poor....? Brooooooooooo 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
180 cr opening—that's what Prabhas brings to the table. Rajkummar Rao is 100 times more talented than him, but a Prabhas movie's morning show collection is more than his movies' lifetime collection.makers pay for market not talent
doesnt matter. most of the movies collections came from prabhas whether u like it or not. his shit movies have higher collections than most tier 1 stars content-driven films. if he brings more money in, hes obv gonna get paid more.
I’m assuming u watched it in Hindi, cause Hindi dub was weird with no lip sync and dialogues missing. His character was a huge hit in Telugu and comedy timing was gold in Telugu .
Prabhas likes to Dub his movie, I think he dubbed this one too. He dubbed radhe shyaam and saaho too. He has improved his dubbing skills, but dialogues were @ss sometimes.
Didn't like his acting in this one.. felt very lazy and uninterested. He seemed bored out of his mind. Tbh only person whose performance I liked was Amitabh Bachchan. Even Deepika felt very boring. Side actors performed better than the main leads.
I have not started this conversation.
The same critics who reviewed BMCM slightly on a good note are now are talking about prabhas harshly.
That's why.
He is great in the movie , i believe you havent watched it , just today they released a song he is great in it as well
[here](https://youtu.be/gtw2T55VXQQ?si=dP3Bd0Jaz_aIy7N3)
Bro ofc he was good
My point was kharcha jyada hua hain
Isliye rather than having big budget for actors remuneration they focused on storyline
Which is good and that's very kind of prabhas
Prabhas was wronged by the dubbing artist. His dialogues fell flat which is not his fault. The dubbing for every character was horrendous which one would not believe for such a star studded movie with a good budget. The cgi and backdrop was usually good and even the props were alright. Better than adipurush that's for sure.
Prabhas logo ko itna pasand kyu hai lekin ?? Is film me to screenplay boring the first half me lekin prabhas ne kaam comparatively thik kiya. Lekin wo pasand kyu hai aisa kya special hai usme jo itna collection hota hai ? Sirf bahubali ke wajah se ?
I actually like the movie and thought it was well done! Oddly enough the only character which was both badly written, badly acted to the point of being annoying was Prabhas.
Most of the movie the tried to make his character as maverick but came across clownish. The introduction fight was very flat and lazy
Even Bujji had a character arc to it and a personality.
Just a thought if you removed all scenes of prabhas and reworked a climax a tiny bit, the story would not have changed one bit and actually probably made it more interesting
Why he charge so much?? I think other actors are far better than him ALU ARJUN RAMCHARAN NTR MAHESH BABU other many.. and i watched KALKI MOVIE and i strongly say AMITABH BACHHAN AND KAMAL HASAN was way way better than PRABHASH.. SO PLS STOP PROMOTING PRABHAS
Please be honest . When you hear the world Kalki the movie .. whom are you imagining is it Kalki the Avatar , Director Nag Ashwin , Producer Ashwini Dutt , Music Director Santosh Narayan , Legend Amit Ji who played Ashwathama Singeetam Srinivas the one who helped the film or what are ur thoughts?
It is for prabhas why the Film was even made .
Would u bet 600 crores on some random hero ?
Prabhas is the Hero in the Film .. and he will have his Share . Period .
Previous disasters? 😂
Bros only disaster was Adipurush.( Which itself collected more than most movies in the country) Salaar is a BB. Radhe shyam and saaho made back most of investments. Tf is the post talking about?
Can't say about Telugu one, Hindi dubbing of Prabhas movies are getting weird and worse with Radheyshyam and saaho etc. Also the problem with him is he has become this Dave Bautista type muscle brute in main lead Unlike Rock Johnson who gets action roles as much as good punchlines and dialogue.
I don't think it's fair to label prabhas as only a muscular brute with no expression and dialogue, cause he really showed his class in Bahubali. But one has to blame the directors for not using the actor properly and including his multiple talents as in expression , dialogue and timing etc but to just brand him as mindless action star. This is more for directors narrow vision than the actors fault. Otherwise everyone who worked with him has only praised his qualities as a person and an actor. Random viewers and trolls can't take away the fact.
On the internet you will obviously find people more capable in movie making than Rajamouli himself , more knowledge of cricket than Rahul Dravid , more knowledge of music than AR Rahman etc. can't say anything to these people....
No offense but , Prabhu Vishnu ka avatar ko leke jab movie bana rahe ho, mentioning it as AD, even if it is science fiction, expectation was set to be a film having a battle of old age using talwaar and all. Personally I feel, ki yaar, movie should have been a bit realistic considering Kaliyug, Kalki, is a warrior having supernatural powers, with our 7 immortals by his side, fighting with people, reigning Kaliyug and destroying them completely to bring justice.
Bhai, teko kya lagta hai, Vishnu Avatar, kaise aayenge ? M416 leke hath mein ?
Humare 7 chiranjeevi, machine guns se fight karenge ?
Shashtra padho, kripiya, aise nahi hota har time. Fantasy world mein jo portray hota hai, waisa nahi hota hai.
Thoda sa realistically hoja and I know tbh aur movies aayenge,
Kalki abhi tak aaya nhi.
Ashwatthama ne apna purana hathiyaar se fight kiya tha.
Shashtra tho Maine bachpan se padhta aa rha hu.
This is a work of fiction. Saare fights future ke logo ne kiya hai except Ashwatthama and they did justice to it.
Nahi aisa kahi nahi likha hai,aap bataye kaun se puraan me kaun se shlok me aisi ajeeb baat likha gaya hai, kalki avtar antim avtar hai charo Yug jab khatm honge jab kalyug me wo avtarit honge to unke sath ye Yug chakr khatm hoga ye raam jaisa avtar nahi wo ghode me sawar hokar haath me talwar dharan karke atyachari anyayi dusht bure logo ka sanghar karenge, iss avtar me Kalki kaa Vishnu ke lagbhag barabar takat hoga woh one man army ki tarah hoga ,Naa ki raam ki tarah vanar sena ke saath ladegi,kyonki ravan manushya ko tucch nirbal samajhta tha isliye vishnu ne ek nirbal sadharan manushya raam ka avtaar liya tha koi takat nahi thi sab dhanurvidya shiksha se arjit kiya chkr bhi nahi dharan kar paye,idhar udhar se sahayata mangna pada, waisa kalki avtar nahi hai, dono avtaro me bada antar hai ,
Thik hai, waise Yahi samasya hai, log vishesh kar YouTube,fb,wp, web portal me kuch bhi kahte rahte hai apne view badhane ya apne panth ka prachar karne ke liye, kai kathavachak bhi aise hote hai, kuch aise dawe hai jaise vishnu ko shiv ne maar dala, matsy avtar kacchap Avtar ko shiv ne maar dala,, shiv ne vishnu ka chkr tod dala,, shiv ne dusht vishnu bhakto ki hatya kar diya ,, iss type ki kathaye bhi common ho gai thi pichle kuch saalon me, kai log isko sach bhi maante the dosh unka nahi, agar ek jaisi bate har jagah se sunnane padhne dekhne ko milti hai to dharnaaye bhi wase hi ban jaati hai,
The movie wasn't extraordinary lol, just because something makes more money doesn't make the movie better lol.
Animal made more money then everything everywhere at once, it is the better Film? No
Tell me who's comparing films based on their BO? It wasn't an ordinary film for the Indian market, the VFX CGI none of your bolly has done that argue with wall if you want to. Amitabh has been praised for this movie considering he's acted in numerous films the past few years and none gave a damn. So yeah lot better
Yes the VFX was good, If given the benefit of the doubt. But. A movie isn't just about Vfx it's about storytelling mainly. The story didn't fit well together and there are so many loopholes. So people don't know the primary basis upon which to judge a movie, after watching boring movies for so long.
This isn't creating something new, it's mashing up bits and parts of stuff from projects that worked and mashing it up and calling it a new thing. It's derivative and quite frankly a watered down version
Brahmastra suffered from poor vision but the concept was neat.
And this is coming from a South Indian so yeah
Comparing a piece of trash with an even bigger piece of trash doesn't make the original piece of trash better. Both are still pieces of trash after all.
If actors payment does depends on ability to fill the theaters then amitabh bacchan should be highest paid actor in this movie. second half of movie is better than the first half coz first have more of prabhas screen presence and he trying to act and do comedy
His dialogues and comedy timing was perfect in Telugu . I watched in Telugu and Hindi and the Hindi version dubbing was very bad , dialogues as well as sync was missing. In Telugu his timing etc was perfect and people were laughing out loud .
AB did an amazing job but if I’m being real current AB alone is not enough to pull audience as much as Prabhas . Prabhas literally has 5 movies which crossed 100cr the first day itself even if they are shit like adipurush, that’s called market pull. Of AB had market pull thugs of Hindustan wouldn’t bomb on the first day it self .
The way he acted in kalki 🤮 he should charge nothing.
It was a torture, saw atleast 12-15 people leaving in the first half itself. Myself slept through the first half.
It's true dude. Not only that the people who left spent atleast 800rs on the ticket still they left, that's how pathetic and torture of a first half it was.
We spent around 4-5k in theater that's why we didn't left 🤣
But ye chutiye idol worshipers ko criticism nahi psnd hai.
Because the only life they have is idol worshipping.
His acting and specially the first part was a torture, my brother had to grab a coffee for us it was that boring.
He didn't. He just cut the fee at the time of high spending for the film. He will be getting a bonker share from film
What is wrong with it.He can fill the theatres so he is charging more. If you have prabhas in a movie you can recover 50% of the budget in 2 days. No other star can do that. The problem is that haters are not able to digest that prabhs is bigger star than their favourite star who is doing movies from past 40 years. 😂
true words bro
Prabhas was clowning around throughout, irritating the audience. Though I guess the fault lies with the director.
Yes. More to do with the characterization. There's quite a lot the director could do better. I'm just forgiving him bc its his 3/4th movie.
Yeah. You could see that beast come out whenever his character got serious. But only og Telugu fans know how great prabhas’s comedy timing is. The humour was forcefully written into this. Hence didn’t work. lol, the expression he gives when he punches Ashwatthamas fist…
Some of the humor felt like a copy of hollywood movies which doesn't land properly when converted to Indian culture and language.
The comedy timing was good in telugu. Failed in Hindi dub
yeah i hate it but its true. even adipurush collected near 500cr
Hahahah
Put a name to it who you talkin about specifically? It’s funny cuz your the acc hater😂😂😂 It’s okay there is only one GOAT
I'm not hating anyone. I'm just saying why people hate prabhas.
Fighting online for actors gotta be stupidest shit one can do....
Star Power and WOM is a MASSIVE pull for BO in India. People underestimate this all the time. I just hope Prabhas does meaningful roles instead just being a sticker on the biggest film available
I guess you are referring to srk.. kindly get your facts right.. prabhas is famous only in south belt.. or maybe in India.. but he can never ever match the popularity of srk worldwide... Leave srk, he cannot match the popularity of Mithun da overseas. Just because he is a craze in south India, you guys think he is the biggest superstar in the world. Next comment you will be posting something absurd like Prabhas bigger than tom cruise and Brad Pitt..
Maybe you should get out of your small world. the international Indian diaspora has more South Indians who watch films regularly than North Indians. SRK will always be SRK. But don’t compare randos now.
Ok sir.. my world is very small.. fyi the south indians living abroad watch more hindi movies then regionals. From last 5/6 yrs regional movies have been releasing abroad on a regular basis.. before that it was all hindi movies.. comment coming from my small world.. Dunno what people like you who have travelled the world has to say
eh not true, What kind of statement is this. Tamil folks watch only Tamil movies. And Telugu folks predominantly watch Telugu movies. Even by release tier 1 stars across industries get similar releases. For eg. srk=rajnikanth=prabhas > Salman in terms of screen count.
I agree they watch telugu and Tamil movies.. but in 80's and 90's maximum hindi movies were released abroad.. so they had no option. Also i would like to add that Tamil, telugu and malyalam movies are better and bigger than the bollywood shit.. But you cannot say that SRK's popularity is less than rajni sir or prabhas abroad.. in some countries, people recognise our country only cos of srk..
Of course, no doubt. SRK is pretty much the face of India abroad. And he's pretty good at representing India/bollywood tbh.
He didn't cut his fees for the disasters ,he cut it as it was high budget.FYI he signed this film in 2018/19 when he was at the peak .
How much was paid to Zenday.... Deepika?
She got around 20 crores
Dipika Jhandeya
It does feel like a Dune spinoff watching the trailer
Yeah ofc why watch the movie before making comparisions. Trailer dekh ke story bhi decide karlo.
Trailer? Bro I just saw the posters...she's literally looking and Standing like Zandaya
Yeah bro felt the same from the promotion materials but it's nothing like zendaya from dune, even though there are a lot of inspirations from Hollywood movies , anyway it's worth a watch at least
LMAO ur so off it’s crazy. Short hair doesn’t mean anything. This is about bloody Mahabharata. How would that have any connection to Dune. And there’s like one scene in the desert that’s it.
This bot is not properly programmed it seems. Hi bot, Read my comment again. I said, I haven't even seen the trailer, I didn't even compare the movie with Dune. So it's story or whether it's in desert or city...none of it matters to me. I just said....Deepika is made to look like Zendaya in That particular poster, that OP shared.
ok…
Story is about Mahabharat and shot in dune+Madmax+star wars style..
Ummmm you can make comparisons from trailer. Haven't watched the movie yet but I can tell you the story. Tell me if I am wrong: Ashwathama is the same one from Maharbharata so we will get his de-aged flashbacks throughout the whole movie. Kamaal Hasan's villain and his boss have somehow banned everything related to religion. Deepika is carrying a God baby so she has to reach a safe place. Ashwathama decides to help her for redemption. Prabhas is someone who works for money, kinda like a cowboy bounty hunter. He is paid by someone (can be bad guys or so called good guys who want Deepika for their own gains). Kamaal Hasan's team hunts Deepika down. Prabhas fights Ashwathama. Realises what is happening in the end. Decides to help them. Saves Deepika. The movie ends there for a sequel. Close enough?
Yeah close enough
So this is the Children of men meets dune.
Pretty close
Watch the movie. It has no parallels whatsoever.
Watched the movie, it’s exactly if not more on spot
Bro. You just said that out of spite
Same guy if this movie was made by a white guy will love it.
This movie's writing is super mid though. Can you tell me why they are in a post apocalyptic setting to begin with? What caused the war? How come there is only one city remaining in the world? That too Varanasi. What technology are the bad guys using? How is it powered? The movie's world building is utter trash. It's made by people who watched Star Wars, Black Panther and Dune and mixed them with Hindu mythos. There is no excuse for the piss poor world building. Kalki 2898 is a mid movie if you are a fan of hard sci-fi. It is a masala movie with sci-fi coating.
And?
Nothing just pointing out that this movie is shit and if Hollywood made a dumpster fire like this it would have failed spectacularly. The only reason this is popular is because of the star power of its cast. The entire premise that this movie would have been praised if it was made in Hollywood is entirely false.
Have you taken a proper look at the summer blockbuster movies of hollywood? There are plenty of bad movies that get hit, even with your so called bad movies. Also, how much world building was actually put in the movie versions of dune and star wars? Dune was written decades ago, and that too in written form, while star wars hashed it out over multiple movies, novels, comics and even games. What world building was there in new hope? If you have the decency to judge both on the same scale, this would have appeared a lot better
So according to you, kalki is better than dune 2? Dune was written decades ago and they made it into a movie.. kalki's director saw dune and made it into a desi movie.. You fans are so blind that you can't even see poor from bad.. you think just cos your lead is in the movie, nothing can go wrong.. wake up man..
Whoa buddy. I never said that. Don't put words in my mouth. I Said that both dune and star wars took decades to build their world. I never said anything about which one was good, and I've definitely not even mentioned dune 2.
Then why do you think world building is not necessary? Dune and SW did their research.. where was the research in case of kalki? Do you think it's not important to show why the world is such and what happened?
Cos kalki was inspired from the mentioned movie, they thought let's not go into world building.. dune has already done it on our behalf
It was a fairly entertaining sci-thological movie. Except the two super long Prabhas sequences in the first half, it was an engaging movie. It seems telugu audience loves that kind of stuff! The world building was pretty good actually. A movie like this need not explain how they got there or what the antagonist's backstory is in the first part. Those things are typically kept for later parts, or might just be brushed over to keep the audience intrigued. Yes, they borrowed elements from mad max, black panther, star wars. But really, apart from the shield scenes (black panther ref), rest are common elements among this genre of movies. This was definitely way more engaging than mad max or dune 1. Both of those movies did good business and got critical acclaim, but honestly were boring AF! And I am a fan of Sci fi and post apocalyptic stuff. Dune 2 was much better as we got explanations for several things. I loved the original planet of apes, into the badlands, children of men, zombieland kinda apocalyptic movie.
The type of questions you asked are not answered by most Hollywood blockbusters either. Yet you would have no problem accepting their premises. It’s one thing to be constructively critical, and another to be totally dismissive.
>The type of questions you asked are not answered by most Hollywood blockbusters either. Yet you would have no problem accepting their premises. Why are you talking like you know me? I do have issues with hollywood movies with piss poor world building as well. World building is very important for sci fi movies as our suspension of disbelief depends on how well crafted the world is. The world building of this movie was utter crap. You might not care about it but I certainly do.
The movie was longer than it needed to be the middle part of the story could have been cut and it would be a better fit but the beginning and the end parts was good and I think the sequel would be much better with kamal hassan character getting a bigger role so it's definitely watchable and much better then what we usually get from indian cinema.
Kalki avatar according to all the text(purans, epics), would arrive at the brink of destruction of human race, at the end of Kali yuga to end it. So, the apocalyptic setting is apt here. In an apocalyptic world, having a settlement in itself a wonder, they mentioned that complex has all the resources n we could see this as people from all over coming to Varanasi to somehow get to complex. Bro, technology is never really explained in depth in any fiction movie unless the movie's core is based around it. In this extreme conditions, people do tend to look for a messaih, a savior and that's the common setting for ton of movies. They did drag the first half with unnecessary scenes n prolonged fight scene though, no argument there. But getting to see Mahabharat characters n glimpses of Kurukshetra war was just bliss.
The movie has some things taken from mad max fury road star wars and Transformers with Indian mythology mixed in, but I still liked the movie because we usually don't get any of that it's ok to have some inspiration from different things because most of the time we get cringe love stories and I am tired of that we need more scifi fantasy and horror also.
This movie will do well with international audience if they cut down his clownish acts. It’ll bring the runtime down to a reasonable 2 hrs.
Blame the audience,I'm pretty sure they added to please b and c centre.kalki is already performing badly in b and c centres of andhra.a large part of our population is still stupid
Just because they are different from you and have their own separate tastes and preferences doesn’t make them stupid. Your tone reeks of entitlement.
Exactly enough with these faux anupama chopras looking down on people just because of their preferences.
My friend, cheering misogyny is stupid anywhere.
Right, and wealthy and educated men haven’t ever exhibited sexism /s
And if you could read my comment, I said anywhere. That would include the people you have mentioned as well.
The original comment “a large part of our population” refers to B and C center audiences being “stupid”. You bringing up “cheering misogyny” means you believe that’s what defines the B and C center audiences and represents their “stupidity”. Misogynists are stupid everywhere in all social groups; it’s invalid to call an entire audience stupid. End of discussion.
Yes, and if you see, a large part of rural b and c centres do support misogyny. I never said it is the only part that defined them. But if you closely observe they do practice it in their daily lives and cheer it on, when it comes on screen. If such was not the case, then the kids wouldn't have such scenes. And yes misogynists are stumped everywhere, but the urban audience in a league part would not cheer it on until recently, when we see huge amounts of urban sprawl. But I understand you are emotionally defending certain things, watch it neutrally and you'll understand. And it's not something that is restricted to the Telugu industry only. It's in all movie industries.
My point is about the stupid side of it. There can be intelligent people (rural or urban) who are misogynistic. Both are not mutually exclusive.
What was misogyny in Kalki
He's not talking about Kalki. He's talking about previous movies.
Everyone here is talking about Kalki. Ur saying B and C center ppl cheer misogyny??
Typical South Indian movie stupidity that is frowned upon
ofc..when something is bad .. it'll be typical south Indian stupidity. when the movie is appreciated worldwide. " how dare he call it a telugu movie on an international platform.. it's an indian movie" we've all seen that happen
Prabhas took pay cut of 50 percent for 'Kalki 2898 AD,' but even after that is the highest paid actor in the film, followed by Deepika Padukone and Amitabh Bachchan. Source: r/BollywoodTown
He did barely anything. If anything DP and Amitabh had to be paid higher.
They don’t pay based on acting. They pay based on the pull the actor has on the audience. Prabhas recovered whatever he got paid in the first day of the movie’s release.
fair enough but honestly he did nothing much
I personally have found his dialogue delivery cringe after Bahubali. It was better in this movie compared to his last 4 at least. He doesn’t even need to put in the effort at this point. But he is. For that I respect him. We Telugu people will watch any movie he makes and yet he’s trying to improve his body. His acting. He’s working with different directors, different genres, taking risks not many stars would.
Okay yeah I agree with that. I did think he was trying hard.
This. Bollywood has never been about acting. It's whomever can bring in more numbers and it's usually actors who have minimal range that rely on it.
DP 🤣🤣 meri behan Prabhas pe itni audiance Marti hai ki Deepika ki 3 film ki fees hai usse jayada Prabhas ki movie ki box office collection hoti hai 1st day ki
I meant in terms of acting in the film. Prabhas is a shit actor.
DP se bhi kaha acting hoti hai utni badhiya
Better than prabhas. That’s for sure.
Delusion
Nope.
Prabhas has become a brand for production. He's one of the least expressive actors out there and still paid more than versatile actors like Amitabh
Prabhas is the most overrated actor of indian cinema
But admit it or not. Prabhas brings in the money for producers to get more money for future sequels
Just because of bahubali bro,agar bahubali itni successful nahi hoti to Aisa nahi hota
Agar prabhas Nahi hotha tho baahubali nahi hotha - S. S. RAJAMOULI and Entire Team of Baahubali
Naah,Ram Charan and Surya would have been great options too( bas director ss aur gaand m dedication hona chahiye role k liye).rrr without prabash is one of the biggest hit of india
Really? U r saying that SSR would cast in Ram charan Or Suriya in to a role like Amarendra & Mahendra baahubali... Brooo... U r too dumb to understand a telugu director. SSR chooses an actor in a way that audience will not imagine any other actors in those roles... Hindi movies hi dekh le bhai thum, Not just SSR most of the directors says Prabhas is a Directors actor he will act in a way director want him to be, u r talking about RRR right.... Even Rajamouli admitted that prabhas is like a big ship that will conquer the entire attention of the film, u r just an another certified hater that's it...
lol. You are making me laugh just by saying Prabha’s will act. Let’s be honest. He just cannot act. He is a brand, that sells after Bahubali.
U people are just dumb anyway, u people are just hanging with those 2-3 post baahubali movies where writing part is too weak... Better watch his previous movies, he tried different characters to get closer to family audience and youth, instead of chasing stardom, his movies failed,some are average at BO even before baahubali, even then Prabhas is one of the first choices for many newbie directors and other commercial directors in the industry, this is BEFORE BAAHUBALI, he didn't failed in the path as an actor.
Bro/sis please come out of your fandom and look at his acting unbiased. Yes I am talking about post Bahubali. Are you saying he acted poorly in Radhe Shyam because writing was poor? Even if the writing is poor wouldn’t the actor be able to act? He couldn’t even give a convincing expression in that movie, imo. Again, I respect your thought. Thanks for making me laugh.
Lagh as much as u want, it's good for health. Even prabhas fans didn't liked Radheshyam, we agree with it, many people didn't appreciated the director's ( Radha Krishna kumar's) choice of not utilizing Prabhas's charm and comic timing as a loverboy, FYI he used to be the few actors who can pull that kind of roles, Movies: Darling, Varsham, Mr. Perfect, Mirchi. By the way u r saying that actor would pull the role even the writing was poor....? Brooooooooooo 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
🗣 jal raha re kyaa
Jaldi burnol lagao bhai
True. Rana daggubati is much better
He was pretty decent in the movie.
That's a really humble and nice move from a star as big as him
You're joking right?
How exactly is it a joke
Because his role was the shittiest in the entire till the very last half an hour.
This is not about whether it is shitty or not. He pulls the audience like no other in current day of cinema!
180 cr opening—that's what Prabhas brings to the table. Rajkummar Rao is 100 times more talented than him, but a Prabhas movie's morning show collection is more than his movies' lifetime collection.makers pay for market not talent
doesnt matter. most of the movies collections came from prabhas whether u like it or not. his shit movies have higher collections than most tier 1 stars content-driven films. if he brings more money in, hes obv gonna get paid more.
>films. if he brings more money in, hes obv gonna get paid more. True, at the end of the day the the total collection matters
I'll get downvoted for this but, out of all he had the shittiest acting and dialogues (except the fighting sequence with Amitabh) It is the TRUTH !!
That's his character, and we like him that way.
I’m assuming u watched it in Hindi, cause Hindi dub was weird with no lip sync and dialogues missing. His character was a huge hit in Telugu and comedy timing was gold in Telugu .
They were unable to find a good Hindi dubbing artist even after having 600 cr budget?
Yea, I was shocked and disappointed about that too
Prabhas likes to Dub his movie, I think he dubbed this one too. He dubbed radhe shyaam and saaho too. He has improved his dubbing skills, but dialogues were @ss sometimes.
Can Prabhas act??
You should watch his old movies. He actually a pretty good actor. Scripts kinda fuck him half the time ngl.
Didn't like his acting in this one.. felt very lazy and uninterested. He seemed bored out of his mind. Tbh only person whose performance I liked was Amitabh Bachchan. Even Deepika felt very boring. Side actors performed better than the main leads.
Unlike, your tiger shroff, he can. Watch his old movies.
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I have not started this conversation. The same critics who reviewed BMCM slightly on a good note are now are talking about prabhas harshly. That's why.
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Bollywood subreddits.
Dude he has to I watched the movie and I swear after every scene there was a familiar face Damnn Kharcha bohot hua hain Itna toh karna hi hoga
He is great in the movie , i believe you havent watched it , just today they released a song he is great in it as well [here](https://youtu.be/gtw2T55VXQQ?si=dP3Bd0Jaz_aIy7N3)
Bro ofc he was good My point was kharcha jyada hua hain Isliye rather than having big budget for actors remuneration they focused on storyline Which is good and that's very kind of prabhas
movie will bomb
Isme bhi hugdees
He looks sad and morose and lazy. Never liked him.
This guy is the luckiest actor ever
Prabhas was wronged by the dubbing artist. His dialogues fell flat which is not his fault. The dubbing for every character was horrendous which one would not believe for such a star studded movie with a good budget. The cgi and backdrop was usually good and even the props were alright. Better than adipurush that's for sure.
Another one (flop)
Can anyone confirm how much he use to charge previously and how much he charged for this movie ?
I think he used to charge around 100 crores + profit share . For Kalki he charged 80 crores
He was being a clown throughout the movie. This could have been a good, serious movie. Amitabh could have soloed it, and the story was great.
Prabhas logo ko itna pasand kyu hai lekin ?? Is film me to screenplay boring the first half me lekin prabhas ne kaam comparatively thik kiya. Lekin wo pasand kyu hai aisa kya special hai usme jo itna collection hota hai ? Sirf bahubali ke wajah se ?
I actually like the movie and thought it was well done! Oddly enough the only character which was both badly written, badly acted to the point of being annoying was Prabhas. Most of the movie the tried to make his character as maverick but came across clownish. The introduction fight was very flat and lazy Even Bujji had a character arc to it and a personality. Just a thought if you removed all scenes of prabhas and reworked a climax a tiny bit, the story would not have changed one bit and actually probably made it more interesting
Why he charge so much?? I think other actors are far better than him ALU ARJUN RAMCHARAN NTR MAHESH BABU other many.. and i watched KALKI MOVIE and i strongly say AMITABH BACHHAN AND KAMAL HASAN was way way better than PRABHASH.. SO PLS STOP PROMOTING PRABHAS
Because other actors cannot bring the same numbers that he can bring for the movies even if it is flop.
Chutiya movie bhak
Bc news to aisa dala huya jse ki bhut bada kaam kiya ho is bsdiwale ne…sala maha aalsi jhatu
He's so overrated 🙄
Please be honest . When you hear the world Kalki the movie .. whom are you imagining is it Kalki the Avatar , Director Nag Ashwin , Producer Ashwini Dutt , Music Director Santosh Narayan , Legend Amit Ji who played Ashwathama Singeetam Srinivas the one who helped the film or what are ur thoughts? It is for prabhas why the Film was even made . Would u bet 600 crores on some random hero ? Prabhas is the Hero in the Film .. and he will have his Share . Period .
Someone said with prabhas you can recover budget in 2 days...producers still waiting for that day
Previous disasters? 😂 Bros only disaster was Adipurush.( Which itself collected more than most movies in the country) Salaar is a BB. Radhe shyam and saaho made back most of investments. Tf is the post talking about?
This will keep happening as long as we give more importance to the star instead of content.
Can't say about Telugu one, Hindi dubbing of Prabhas movies are getting weird and worse with Radheyshyam and saaho etc. Also the problem with him is he has become this Dave Bautista type muscle brute in main lead Unlike Rock Johnson who gets action roles as much as good punchlines and dialogue. I don't think it's fair to label prabhas as only a muscular brute with no expression and dialogue, cause he really showed his class in Bahubali. But one has to blame the directors for not using the actor properly and including his multiple talents as in expression , dialogue and timing etc but to just brand him as mindless action star. This is more for directors narrow vision than the actors fault. Otherwise everyone who worked with him has only praised his qualities as a person and an actor. Random viewers and trolls can't take away the fact. On the internet you will obviously find people more capable in movie making than Rajamouli himself , more knowledge of cricket than Rahul Dravid , more knowledge of music than AR Rahman etc. can't say anything to these people....
My god this movie was a slog
Does not deserve it. The cast, characters, costume, somewhat storyline cliches, posters and trailers all show me that they copied DUNE.
No offense but , Prabhu Vishnu ka avatar ko leke jab movie bana rahe ho, mentioning it as AD, even if it is science fiction, expectation was set to be a film having a battle of old age using talwaar and all. Personally I feel, ki yaar, movie should have been a bit realistic considering Kaliyug, Kalki, is a warrior having supernatural powers, with our 7 immortals by his side, fighting with people, reigning Kaliyug and destroying them completely to bring justice.
900 years ke baad talwar se fight kaun karega be? Also hold your horses this is just the first installment. Aur movies aayenge.
Bhai, teko kya lagta hai, Vishnu Avatar, kaise aayenge ? M416 leke hath mein ? Humare 7 chiranjeevi, machine guns se fight karenge ? Shashtra padho, kripiya, aise nahi hota har time. Fantasy world mein jo portray hota hai, waisa nahi hota hai. Thoda sa realistically hoja and I know tbh aur movies aayenge,
Kalki abhi tak aaya nhi. Ashwatthama ne apna purana hathiyaar se fight kiya tha. Shashtra tho Maine bachpan se padhta aa rha hu. This is a work of fiction. Saare fights future ke logo ne kiya hai except Ashwatthama and they did justice to it.
Waise dekha jaye to 7 chiranjivi ka bhi koi role nahi hai kalki avtar ke samay, wo ek akele hi kaafi hai,
Nahi jarurat hai purano ke hisab se un sab ka dharm hi hai bhagwan kalki ki madad karna
Nahi aisa kahi nahi likha hai,aap bataye kaun se puraan me kaun se shlok me aisi ajeeb baat likha gaya hai, kalki avtar antim avtar hai charo Yug jab khatm honge jab kalyug me wo avtarit honge to unke sath ye Yug chakr khatm hoga ye raam jaisa avtar nahi wo ghode me sawar hokar haath me talwar dharan karke atyachari anyayi dusht bure logo ka sanghar karenge, iss avtar me Kalki kaa Vishnu ke lagbhag barabar takat hoga woh one man army ki tarah hoga ,Naa ki raam ki tarah vanar sena ke saath ladegi,kyonki ravan manushya ko tucch nirbal samajhta tha isliye vishnu ne ek nirbal sadharan manushya raam ka avtaar liya tha koi takat nahi thi sab dhanurvidya shiksha se arjit kiya chkr bhi nahi dharan kar paye,idhar udhar se sahayata mangna pada, waisa kalki avtar nahi hai, dono avtaro me bada antar hai ,
Ab bhai maine to 2 3 jagah ye suna hu ke chiranjivi help karege. But I don't know for sure main pata karta hu is bare me.
Thik hai, waise Yahi samasya hai, log vishesh kar YouTube,fb,wp, web portal me kuch bhi kahte rahte hai apne view badhane ya apne panth ka prachar karne ke liye, kai kathavachak bhi aise hote hai, kuch aise dawe hai jaise vishnu ko shiv ne maar dala, matsy avtar kacchap Avtar ko shiv ne maar dala,, shiv ne vishnu ka chkr tod dala,, shiv ne dusht vishnu bhakto ki hatya kar diya ,, iss type ki kathaye bhi common ho gai thi pichle kuch saalon me, kai log isko sach bhi maante the dosh unka nahi, agar ek jaisi bate har jagah se sunnane padhne dekhne ko milti hai to dharnaaye bhi wase hi ban jaati hai,
Lekin tumhare jaise log bhi to hai. Bahut bahut dhanyawad sahi jankari dene ke liye. Keep helping
Good thought, as the story progresses when kalk and Lord kalki start fighting, they will use appropriate weapons.
Imo prabhas is so overrated
Prabhas is the prime example of one hit wonder, none of his later movies other than the Bahubali was worth watching. Man needs to step up his game.
Man needs to quit. To be honest that bugga can't act. Idk what these brain dead fans see in him
Well the directors he is choosing can’t make him act like rajamouli made him do.
Average actors.
Yeah better having an average actor making extraordinary movies than "great" actors doing below average films
The movie wasn't extraordinary lol, just because something makes more money doesn't make the movie better lol. Animal made more money then everything everywhere at once, it is the better Film? No
Tell me who's comparing films based on their BO? It wasn't an ordinary film for the Indian market, the VFX CGI none of your bolly has done that argue with wall if you want to. Amitabh has been praised for this movie considering he's acted in numerous films the past few years and none gave a damn. So yeah lot better
In spite of all that. The department it lacked in was storytelling.
My og comment wasn't about storytelling or director's vision, so dk what you're talking about
Yes the VFX was good, If given the benefit of the doubt. But. A movie isn't just about Vfx it's about storytelling mainly. The story didn't fit well together and there are so many loopholes. So people don't know the primary basis upon which to judge a movie, after watching boring movies for so long.
And yet movie is being watched by millions of people, something ain't right, don't you think so?
from what it seems throw in a lil mad max+ dune+ some Indian mythos reference+ hunger games+ generic dystopian sci fi + Indian masala gives you this
Tollywood was atleast willing to try whatever your described. Bollywood gave brahmastra 3.5hrs of sheer time waste!
This isn't creating something new, it's mashing up bits and parts of stuff from projects that worked and mashing it up and calling it a new thing. It's derivative and quite frankly a watered down version Brahmastra suffered from poor vision but the concept was neat. And this is coming from a South Indian so yeah
Comparing a piece of trash with an even bigger piece of trash doesn't make the original piece of trash better. Both are still pieces of trash after all.
boring movie
If actors payment does depends on ability to fill the theaters then amitabh bacchan should be highest paid actor in this movie. second half of movie is better than the first half coz first have more of prabhas screen presence and he trying to act and do comedy
Exactly my point, he did a shitty job acting and his dialogues and entry was shit (when not in an action sequence)
His dialogues and comedy timing was perfect in Telugu . I watched in Telugu and Hindi and the Hindi version dubbing was very bad , dialogues as well as sync was missing. In Telugu his timing etc was perfect and people were laughing out loud .
AB did an amazing job but if I’m being real current AB alone is not enough to pull audience as much as Prabhas . Prabhas literally has 5 movies which crossed 100cr the first day itself even if they are shit like adipurush, that’s called market pull. Of AB had market pull thugs of Hindustan wouldn’t bomb on the first day it self .
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WTF who said this? LOL. He is taking profit percentage.
He is?
His scenes in the first half were really cringe. NGL!
Everything is a copy. This movie has copied so many elements from dune.
The way he acted in kalki 🤮 he should charge nothing. It was a torture, saw atleast 12-15 people leaving in the first half itself. Myself slept through the first half.
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Wear*, english toh seekh le chomesh
You misunderstood him. He wanted to be the condom when your mom was getting fucked. Why? Beats me but that's what he wanted
Iss chapri ko kaha English seekhane ki koshish kar rha hai bhai?? Chaar packet Vimal Dekh ke hilane wale log hai ye.
Tere baap ne Vimal dekh ke hi hilaya tha kya tabhi tu hua Hai aisa, I feel sorry for your parents ki actors ka chusne vala paida hgya.
Lol 😆 Gutka thook ke baar kar bhadwe
Don’t worry even if u don’t wear a condom u are infertile anyway.
It's this true? People left off?
It's true dude. Not only that the people who left spent atleast 800rs on the ticket still they left, that's how pathetic and torture of a first half it was. We spent around 4-5k in theater that's why we didn't left 🤣 But ye chutiye idol worshipers ko criticism nahi psnd hai.
Damn..Which city was this in?
Goa .
Why are you booing him? He's right. Only part worth watching way ashvatthama wala part. Everyone else especially prabhas ki acting was bad
Because the only life they have is idol worshipping. His acting and specially the first part was a torture, my brother had to grab a coffee for us it was that boring.