Last week was all about applause for filmmaker SS Rajamouli as he showed the first glimpse of Varanasi at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris on June 27, marking its first presentation to the European audience. Now, the filmmaker is set to dive again into the shoot of the Mahesh Babu, Priyanka Chopra, and Prithviraj-starrer. mid-day has learnt that beginning July 7, the leading man and the director will film one of the movie’s biggest war set-pieces, involving 3500 junior artistes, in Hyderabad. 

A production insider revealed, “Preparations have been going on for weeks ahead of shooting the war sequence. The scale is unprecedented, even by Rajamouli’s standards.”