The pre-war scenes are beautiful, with one establishing shot that’s a version of the Monument Valley shot in John Ford films, and the stirring visual of an army charging downhill at dusk carrying lit torches (which turns out to be a decoy). After the soldier princess Mastani (Padukone) tracks him down and requests his help, Bajirao (Singh) and his army come to the defence of Bundelkhand, which is under siege from the Mughals. But you wouldn’t know that from the first 30 minutes, which build up to an extended battle that will be compared-unfavourably-to Baahubali’s crunching action sequences. It turns out Bajirao Mastani is quite different from the Telugu megahit. In July, a trailer appeared, suggesting similarities to the recently released, already very popular Baahubali. Finally, the Ram-Leela pair of Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone was cast, and production started. Over the years, the project kept resurfacing, only to be sent back into the purgatory of development. Bhansali had wanted to make a film about the 18th century Maratha peshwa, Bajirao I, and his second wife Mastani, as early as 2003, with Salman Khan in the lead.
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