{"id":236693,"date":"2025-10-24T04:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236693\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:18:08","slug":"ramya-krishnan-almost-rejected-sivagami-role-in-baahubali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236693\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramya Krishnan Almost Rejected Sivagami Role in Baahubali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baahubali series is one of India\u2019s most successful film franchises. Ramya Krishnan\u2019s role as Sivagami became one of the most powerful in her career.<\/p>\n<p>She recently revealed that she almost said no to the role. On the talk show Jayammu Nischayammu Raa, she said producer Shobu Yarlagadda first called her. \u201cHe said the shoot would take 40 days. I said, \u201840 days? Sorry, I can\u2019t do it,\u2019 and hung up,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t know much about the story or scale then, only that it was a big-budget film. Eventually, she accepted the role and found a deep connection with Sivagami. \u201cWhen I held a baby during those scenes, I felt like a real Rajmata,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Before Ramya, the role was offered to Sridevi. She turned it down for reasons that were never shared. Years later, Sridevi\u2019s husband, Boney Kapoor, made controversial remarks about the producers, bringing attention back to the topic.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the makers plan a grand re-release titled Baahubali: The Epic. The combined version will run 3 hours and 45 minutes and include new unseen scenes. Worldwide release is scheduled for October 31.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-tag\">Tags <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulte.com\/tag\/baahubali-the-epic\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baahubali The Epic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulte.com\/tag\/ramya-krishnan\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ramya Krishnan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baahubali series is one of India\u2019s most successful film franchises. Ramya Krishnan\u2019s role as Sivagami became one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,2385,2384],"class_list":["post-236693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-india-today-telangana-ppe-survey","tag-ktr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}