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I couldn’t quite buy Prabhas as this saviour. He has the physicality, all right. As the film’s title suggests, he’s strong. He keeps lifting things — a giant lingam, a giant boulder on a mountain, a giant statue. (In the Marvel universe, he’d be called Hoist Man.) And he acquits himself well in the action scenes — the one where he grabs a sword from its scabbard, in midair, is why wolf whistles were invented. (The battle manoeuvres are brilliantly imagined.) But Prabhas looks like a soft romantic lead, especially when compared to the oak-like Daggubati, who looks like he was nursed by a dragon. When Sivu delivers this movie’s equivalent of the rousing speech Henry V gave before leading his men to the Battle of Agincourt, we don’t feel the fire.