At the star-studded GlobeTrotter event in Hyderabad, SS Rajamouli lifted the veil on his next big canvas SSMB29 - officially titled Varanasi - and introduced Mahesh Babu’s character as Rudhra. The announcement came with a thunderous motion poster that instantly became the evening’s headline.
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Fierce First Look That Everyone Had Been Waiting For
The first glimpse frames Mahesh as an elemental warrior: bare-backed, clutching a trishul, blood at the lip and hurtling forward astride a charging bull - an image that blends mythic iconography with raw, physical cinema. The bull-as-vahana visual and the trishul nod toward Shiva-associated symbolism, hinting at a character

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