Saaho

Prabhas decided to learn Hindi for the film and wrote his own lines for the Hindi version.

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Shraddha Kapoor can understand the dialogues she speaks in this film in Telugu but does not know the language. As for the accents, she invented her own and did not know whether they were right or wrong.

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The film's teaser was released in three languages and set the record for the most-watched teaser in Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi.

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Saaho, a bilingual film shot simultaneously in Hindi and Telugu, marks Prabhas's official debut in Hindi. He became nationally known through the Hindi dubbed versions of the Baahubali series.

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The film's teaser was released on 28 April 2017 alongside Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017).

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The film's climax scene was shot with a team of 100 fighters hired from around the world.

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The film was made on a budget of 350 crore INR.

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Saaho's producers spent a massive 70 crore on a single eight-minute action scene featuring Prabhas, the highest amount ever spent on one scene in the history of Indian cinema.

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The makers released a making-of video titled 'Shades of Saaho', which racked up the highest number of views for a non-trailer, non-teaser making-of video in under 24 hours. It was followed by the most-liked making-of video on YouTube, with 368K likes, beating Rajnikanth-Akshay Kumar's 2.0 (306K). The video also became the most-liked video on social media with close to 1 million likes (exactly 9,75,814 likes). It also achieved a historic reach of over 52 million on social media, the highest ever for a video prepared within 24 hours.

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Around 120 cars were used for the action scenes in Saaho, with 56 cars and a custom-built truck used for the Abu Dhabi chase scene alone.

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For the task of creating the Saaho universe, Sabu Cyril and Sujeeth specially selected a team of 300 artists that included visual effects artists and digital composers.

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A large part of the budget was spent on filming the film's action scenes.

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The film's theatrical rights were sold for 300 crore.

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This is director Sujeeth's second film; his first was Run Raja Run.

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The film's final leg and its romantic songs were shot in Innsbruck and the Tyrol region of Austria.

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Chunky Pandey, Jackie Shroff, Shraddha and Tinnu Anand were all dubbed by other voices in the Telugu version.

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Sabu and his team created the interiors of neo-futuristic architectural structures in Hyderabad from scratch.

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Saaho's premiere was held in cinemas and on IMAX in India on 30 August 2019.

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The film was shot in Austria, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Romania and other parts of Europe.

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International stunt coordinator Kenny Bates was brought in to choreograph the action sequences.

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When Ashok rummages through Amritha's sketchbook, one of the drawings — a couple in a boat against a cloudy pastel background — is an image from one of the promotional stills for "Radhe Shyam".

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Prabhas underwent a strict training regimen that included cardiovascular and weight training as well as plyometric obstacle races.

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According to the film's producers, Shraddha Kapoor shot the action sequences in the film with heavy weapons.

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The film was released in cinemas in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.

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