As reported earlier, Baahubali's prequel is under progress, as a Netflix web series. This web series will talk about the rise of Sivagami, and will showcase the incidents that happened before the birth of Baahubali.
The project was officially announced recently and the cast of this web series was also revealed. This prequel of Baahubali, as a web series, has been titled as, "Baahubali: Before the Beginning", and will feature a fresh set of actors without involving the cast of the feature film.
Mrunal Thakur will be playing the lead role of Sivagami, reprising Ramya Krishnan's character, while Vishwaroopam's antagonist Rahul Bose will also be a part. The rest of the cast includes Atul Kulkarni, Vaquar Shaikh, Jameel Khan, Siddharth Arora, and Anup Soni.
The producer Prasad Devineni, was quoted as saying, "It’s a prequel to both the films and will take fans into the backstories of the characters from the films, and we’ll also be introducing new characters. The aim is to please the Baahubali fanbase and the huge audience Netflix has across the world.”
Rajamouli was part of the scripting of this web series and he has indeed directed the epic finale action war sequence in the series. The web series is expected to release in 2019. Deva Katta and Praveen Sattaru would be directing the web series.