Baahubali: The Beginning Page #5

"Let me drink

this love potion."

"You are mine, just mine."

"lntoxication tonight,

your magic gets me high."

"Your love surrounds me,

my love."

Instead of being

tortured by you, I should..

Bhalla!

Kattappa..

Who did you sell our secrets to?

Tell me!

Kalakeya!

The Kalakeyas don't believe

in tactical attack.

There is no limit

to their morbidity.

If they barge into the kingdom

they will kill every

innocent child

and violate every woman.

They will destroy

and burn everything.

This talk might scare

some small kingdoms.

We have a standing

army of 25,000 soldiers.

Why should we be scared?

How big is the Kalakeya army?

- One hundred thousand.

When wild bulls barge into the crops

and lands that the Kalakeyas

plunder, are both left barren.

We have to defend our kingdom

and we have to attack our

enemies at the same time.

What military strategy

should we use to attack?

"The trident strategy".

It is one for the textbooks.

No one has ever used it.

You want to go to war

with something untested?

If no one has used it

the Kalakeyas wouldn't

expect it either.

That is why

we should implement it.

I second the plan.

- I approve it.

It is the only way

into our kingdom.

Kattappa, how big a force

do you need to stop them?

Five thousand, Your Highness!

I will use armour and spears

to erect a wall of iron.

I will turn it into an

impregnable fortress.

I will command the forces

to the north.

I will take responsibility

for the south.

According to our sources,

the Kalakeya chief

will stand back

and send half

his army forward.

Our military formation

and our weapons...

will repel that kind

of attack for three hours.

But we have to kill

the chief during that time.

Their army,

without a chief, will scatter!

In the middle of that battle

both princes with

their cavalry

will attack the Chief

from two sides.

It will take them

at least three hours

by the time they launch

a counter attack on us.

That will be enough, mother.

Victory will be ours.

Half that time will be enough

to behead him.

Great! This will also

solve the conundrum

of who should be the king.

Yes! The one who kills

the Kalakeya chief

will ascend the

throne of Mahishmathi!

My Lord has

the perfect solution. - Yes.

Divide the rest of the army

equally between the Princes!

Bhalla, Baahu.

This is the opportunity to

pay tribute to your motherland!

Accept it.

Hail Mahishmati!

- Hail Mahishmati!

Your uncle has

treated you unfairly.

He has only given you

tools to breach a fort.

Of what use will those

be in an open battlefield?

The arrow-machines

and the swords' chariot,

all went to Bhallaladeva!

You should have objected, Baahu!

Your son shall ascend

the throne of Mahishmathi.

You brilliantly hoodwinked

Baahubali! - What hoodwink?

If he can't even demand the

right army, the right weapons

what is he going to do

on the battlefield tomorrow?

I made the strong one

even stronger.

It is not cheating,

it is statecraft!

Hey! Who is it?

- Forgive me, My Lord!

The younger Prince

asked us to pull out

the tents and

bring them to him.

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Welcome, Bhallaladeva!

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Invincible!

- Invincible!

Invincible!

- Invincible!

Welcome, Baahubali!

Baahubali! Baahubali!

Baahubali! Baahubali!

Baahubali! Baahubali!

Bahu, it is

a time-honoured ritual.

If you don't

sacrifice the animal

the soldiers will read it as a bad omen.

- Yes, My Prince!

If you don't offer the sacrifice

the Goddess will be angry.

Why quench the

Goddess's thirst with

the blood of

this innocent animal

when my own blood

can be offered?

Hail Mahishmati!

- Hail Mahishmati!

Hail Mahishmathi!

Hail Mahishmathi!

Hail Mahishmathi!

Hail Mahishmathi!

Hail Mahishmathi!

Mahishmathi will be

forgiving and benevolent!

This is your last chance.

Drop your weapons and run

and we will spare your lives.

I heard that you promised

both your sons that

the one who kills me

would be made king.

And if both of them

die at my hands?

I will conquer you

and your kingdom

and then I will have

a son with you.

You can make him the king!

I want him alive.

I want him to be alive

even after his arms and legs

are cut off and he

lies in a pool of blood!

When the vultures pluck out

his eyes and feast on his guts.

He should be alive.

Kattappa!

' My Lady!

Blow the conch

to begin the battle.

It is ready.

Arm the weapon.

Fire!

Baahubali's command!

Get ready!

Arm the weapons.

Attack!

Attack!

Well done, Baahubali!

- Well done.

Soldiers. Attack.

Attack!

Hold! Hold strong!

Swords group, step forward!

Trident strategy begins!

Stop.

Bhallaladeva!

My Prince?

My Prince!

- Army!

Hold your lines!

Hold your lines! Hold them!

Our defenses are in tatters.

We are seeing an enemy

flag on Mahishmati soil...

for the first time!

This is the death of us. Death!

Death! Death!

Death!

Death!

Soldiers!

What is death?

To think that the

enemy is stronger

than our resolve, is death!

Cowardice on the battlefield

is death!

The cruel man insulted our

mother and he is still alive.

Instead of presenting his

decapitated head at her feet

we are turning our backs

to him and that is death!

I will ride on to annihilate

that death!

No rogue can ever harm

my mother or my motherland.

I am about to rip them apart

and proclaim my war cry!

Who is with me?

Me!

Who will die with me?

- Me!

Who will vanquish that

death and live on? - Me!

Me!

Hail Mahishmathi!

Hail Mahishmathi!

Hail Mahishmathi!

Hail Mahishmathi!

Hail Mahishmathi!

Sethupathy!

I want him alive when

the vultures pluck out his eyes

and feast on his guts.

His limbs are to be cut off

and his blood should flow!

MY son!

Bhallaladeva! Bhallaladeva!

MY son!

My brave son killed

Kalakeya and won the battle!

To the future king,

Bhallaladeva!

Hail Bhallaladeva!

Hail Bhallaladeva!

Bhallaladeva's valour

will be told in Mahishmati

for generations to come!

Tales of his victory will be

etched on shrines and temples.

Today, I proclaim

my son Bhallaladeva

as the commander of the

armed forces of Mahishmathi!

I proclaim Baahubali

as the King of Mahishmathi!

Sivagami,

What sort of a decision is this?

My son, our son,

killed the Kalakeya chief!

You saw it with your own eyes!

He has to be the King! Only he!

The merits of a King

are evaluated not

by the number

of enemies he has killed

but by the number of

his own people he has saved.

During the battle

Bhallaladeva's focus was

only in vanquishing the enemy.

Baahubali,

while killing the enemy

also managed

to save his subjects.

That is the difference

between a soldier and a king.

If you kill a hundred men you will

be called a great warrior.

But if you save one life,

you will be called God!

So, saving a couple

of common men

is now the

qualification to rule?

Baahubali will be

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