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News India Live, Digital Desk: Even today people have not been able to forget ‘Bahubali’, one of the biggest and successful films of Indian cinema. Every character of this film left a different impression on the hearts of the audience. Be it the character of ‘Baahubali’ or ‘Katappa’. But there was one character, without which perhaps this film would not have been so strong – that was the character of Rajmata Sivagami. Actress Ramya Krishnan had breathed life into the character of Sivagami, but do you know that for this iconic role, director S.S. Rajamouli’s first choice was not Ramya, but Bollywood’s ‘Chandni’ i.e. late actress Sridevi. Why did Sridevi reject ‘Baahubali’? Yes, this is absolutely true. Rajamouli wanted to see Sridevi in ​​the role of Rajmata Shivgami in ‘Baahubali’. But then what happened that things could not work out? Many types of news came out regarding this matter. Some reports said that Sridevi had asked for a huge fee for this role and had made some demands which the makers could not fulfill. However, later Sridevi’s husband and film producer Boney Kapoor broke his silence on this. He revealed that the fee offered to Sridevi by the makers was less than the fee for her previous film ‘English Vinglish’. Boney Kapoor said that the makers and There were some misunderstandings between Rajamouli, who was misrepresented about Sridevi. How did this character come to Ramya Krishnan? When things did not work out with Sridevi, this character went to South Cinema’s powerful actress Ramya Krishnan. Ramya grabbed this opportunity with both hands and immortalized the character of ‘Shivgami’ forever. Her dialogue “Mera Vachan Hi Shasan” is still on people’s lips. It would not be wrong to say that Ramya Krishnan got the most benefit from Sridevi leaving the film and she became a star in the entire country with this one character. At the same time, ‘Baahubali’ series broke all the records of earning at the box office. Both the parts of the film together had a worldwide business of more than Rs 2400 crore, out of which the first part alone had earned around Rs 650 crore. Sometimes in the industry, someone’s ‘loss’ becomes someone else’s ‘jackpot’, and ‘Baahubali’ is the biggest example of this.