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name: "S. S. Rajamouli"
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roles: ["Director","Writer"]
born: "10 October 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-30T21:31:49.592379+00:00"
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# S. S. Rajamouli

## Identity

S. S. Rajamouli

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/s-s-rajamouli
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** s-s-rajamouli
- **IMDb ID:** nm1442514
- **TMDB ID:** 147021
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3521531
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._S._Rajamouli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3521531, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1442514/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/147021

Director and writer. Born 10 October 1973 in Raichur, Karnataka, India.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer
- **Born:** 10 October 1973, Raichur, Karnataka, India
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Also known as:** Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 directing, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 72 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._S._Rajamouli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3521531, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1442514/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/147021

## Coming up

- *Vāranāsi* (2027-04-07), Director
- *Baahubali: The Eternal War – Part 1* (2027-06-10), Executive Producer

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Bāhubali 2: The Conclusion*](https://film.one/film/bahubali-2-the-conclusion.md) (82), [*RRR*](https://film.one/film/rrr.md) (78)

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## Fi1m on S. S. Rajamouli

> S. S. Rajamouli makes extravagant action worth caring about by taking his heroes’ feelings seriously. We admire his willingness to risk silliness, with one reservation: he often keeps explaining an emotion after the actors have made it clear.

A Rajamouli hero can do impossible things in a fight, and the director expects us to care about why he is fighting. In *Bāhubali 2: The Conclusion* (2017), the choreography keeps finding fresh ways to make the impossible exciting. We were delighted by the fighting because the film lets its improbable ideas develop without apologising for their silliness. There is feeling behind these feats, and Rajamouli gives it as much attention as the action. We recommend the film, though its insistence on making every emotion unmistakable can become tiring.

He began directing features with *Student No. 1* (2001), before the fantasy action and reincarnation of *Magadheera* (2009). Wider recognition came with *Eega* (2012), followed by the two-part story that opened with *Baahubali: The Beginning* (2015). With *RRR* (2022), he reached a wider international audience. His recurring interest in family bonds gives those extraordinary heroes recognisable reasons to act, however far their physical abilities exceed ours.

His regular collaborators include cinematographer K. K. Senthil Kumar, composer M. M. Keeravani and story writer V. Vijayendra Prasad. Mythological and historical references recur, and he often tells his stories through flashbacks. But a considerable part of the pleasure of *Bāhubali 2: The Conclusion* comes from the ease between Prabhas and Anushka Shetty. They make its impossible events worth caring about, giving Rajamouli something to work with beyond the next feat of strength.

At 167 minutes, that film could use a firmer cut, especially when its screenplay keeps explaining a feeling the performers have already made clear. We would not ask Rajamouli to become restrained; that would remove much of the reason to watch him. We would ask him to bring the decisiveness of the fights to the longer stretches between them. Give *Bāhubali 2: The Conclusion* an evening if action fantasy is yours, and accept that he will use most of it.

## Biography

S. S. Rajamouli, also credited as Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli, is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Telugu cinema. He was born on 10 October 1973 in Raichur district, Karnataka.

Rajamouli directed and wrote the screenplay for *Baahubali 2: The Conclusion* (2017). His other notable films include *Baahubali: The Beginning* (2015), *Eega* (2012), *Magadheera* (2009) and *RRR* (2022). Many of his projects have involved his father V. Vijayendra Prasad as story writer and his cousin M. M. Keeravani as composer.

In 2016 the Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri. *RRR* received a New York Film Critics Circle award for best director.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (2) — the average rests on these

- *RRR* (2022), Fi1m 78, as Special Appearance in the song  "Etthara Jenda" (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/rrr.md)
- *Bāhubali 2: The Conclusion* (2017), Fi1m 82, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/bahubali-2-the-conclusion.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *K.G.F: Chapter 2* (2022), Fi1m 65, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/k-g-f-chapter-2.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Baahubali: The Eternal War – Part 1* (2027), Executive Producer, Presenter
- *Vāranāsi* (2027), Director, Screenplay
- *Don't Trouble The Trouble* (2026), Presenter
- *Bãhubali: The Torchbearer* (2026), series, Producer, Creator
- *Bāhubali: The Epic* (2025), Director, Screenplay
- *The Ba***ds of Bollywood* (2025), series, as S. S. Rajamouli
- *RRR: Behind & Beyond* (2024), Director
- *Kalki 2898-AD* (2024), as Bounty Hunter
- *Baahubali: Crown of Blood* (2024), series, Executive Producer, Original Story, Creator
- *Chatrapathi* (2023), Original Story
- *Brahmāstra Part One: Shiva* (2022), Presenter
- *K.G.F: Chapter 2* (2022), Thanks — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/k-g-f-chapter-2.md)
- *RRR* (2022), as Special Appearance in the song  "Etthara Jenda" (uncredited) · Screenplay, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/rrr.md)
- *Radhe Shyam* (2022), as Narrator (Telugu version)
- *Baahubali: Before the Beginning* (2019), series, Producer
- *K.G.F: Chapter 1* (2018), Thanks
- *Bāhubali 2: The Conclusion* (2017), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/bahubali-2-the-conclusion.md)
- *Baahubali: The Lost Legends* (2017), series, Original Story, Creator
- *Bāhubali: The Beginning* (2015), as Spirit Seller · Director, Screenplay
- *Exploring ''Shiva'' Movie After 25 Years* (2014), Actor
- *Andala Rakshasi* (2012), Producer
- *Eega* (2012), as Narrator (voice) · Director, Screenplay
- *Rajanna* (2011), Stunt Coordinator
- *Maryada Ramanna* (2010), Director, Writer
- *Magadheera* (2009), Writer, Director, Screenplay
- *Vishaka Express* (2008), Presenter
- *Yamadonga* (2007), Director, Writer
- *Vikramarkudu* (2006), Director, Screenplay
- *Chatrapathi* (2005), Screenplay, Director
- *Sye* (2004), as Voice over and cameo · Director, Screenplay
- *Simhadri* (2003), Director, Screenplay
- *Student No. 1* (2001), Director
- *Made in India*, Presenter
- *Oxygen*, Presenter

## Gallery

- ![S. S. Rajamouli](https://film.one/media/person/105407/gallery-4568d219eeff.jpg) S. S. Rajamouli — Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Rajamouli_at_the_special_screening_of_%27Makkhi%27_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![SS Rajamouli, Ram Charan, Alia Bhatt, N.T.Rama Rao Jr. At The RRR Press Meet in Chennai. (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/105407/gallery-fb00e217a703.jpg) SS Rajamouli, Ram Charan, Alia Bhatt, N.T.Rama Rao Jr. At The RRR Press Meet in Chennai. (2021) — Dani Charles Silverscreen Media Inc. (https://silverscreen.in), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/SS_Rajamouli%2C_2021.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![SS Rajamouli, Ram Charan, Alia Bhatt, N.T.Rama Rao Jr. At The RRR Press Meet in Chennai. (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/105407/gallery-26677260d783.jpg) SS Rajamouli, Ram Charan, Alia Bhatt, N.T.Rama Rao Jr. At The RRR Press Meet in Chennai. (2021) — Dani Charles Silverscreen Media Inc. (https://silverscreen.in), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/SS_Rajamouli%2C_Ram_Charan%2C_Alia_Bhatt%2C_N.T.Rama_Rao_Jr._At_The_RRR_Press_Meet_in_Chennai.jpg/1280px-SS_Rajamouli%2C_Ram_Charan%2C_Alia_Bhatt%2C_N.T.Rama_Rao_Jr._At_The_RRR_Press_Meet_in_Chennai.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Shivasri Kanchi with Cousins (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/105407/gallery-a13521f47373.jpg) Shivasri Kanchi with Cousins (2010) — Pranayraj1985, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Shivasri_Kanchi_with_Cousins.jpg/1280px-Shivasri_Kanchi_with_Cousins.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![S. S. Rajamouli](https://film.one/media/person/105407/gallery-337762d1433e.jpg) S. S. Rajamouli — Image via TMDB
- ![S. S. Rajamouli](https://film.one/media/person/105407/gallery-b646319489f3.jpg) S. S. Rajamouli — Image via TMDB
- ![S. S. Rajamouli](https://film.one/media/person/105407/gallery-10d5bc222283.jpg) S. S. Rajamouli — Image via TMDB
- ![Working Stills Bahubali With Rajamouli (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/105407/gallery-a95029387838.jpg) Working Stills Bahubali With Rajamouli (2014) — Sabu cyril, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Working_Stills_Bahubali_With_Rajamouli.jpg/1280px-Working_Stills_Bahubali_With_Rajamouli.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![S. S. Rajamouli](https://film.one/media/person/105407/gallery-fcd6f3be619b.jpg) S. S. Rajamouli — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 7 won

- Padma Shri in arts 2016: Padma Shri in arts (won)
- CNN-News18 Indian of the Year 2015: CNN-News18 Indian of the Year (won)
- Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu 2015: Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu (won), for *Baahubali: The Beginning*
- Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu 2012: Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu (won), for *Eega*
- Nandi Award for Best Director 2012: Nandi Award for Best Director (won), for *Eega*
- Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu 2009: Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu (won), for *Magadheera*
- Nandi Award for Best Director 2009: Nandi Award for Best Director (won), for *Magadheera*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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