With a budget of over ₹700 crore, Adipurush became the most expensive Indian film ever made.
Om Raut was fascinated by the 1992 Japanese film Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama and was motivated to adapt the Ramayana into a film using modern technology.
Om Raut wrote the script amidst the COVID-19 lockdown in India.
The film’s teaser received extreme backlash, so the initial budget of 400 crores became 700 crores, after a change in visual effects, every visual related to Adipurush is creating curiosity among the audience raising expectations.
VFX supervisors of Avatar and Star Wars worked on the movie’s graphics.
Om Raut Said, ‘Prabhas’ character is not called Rama. He is Raghav, another name for Rama. Sita, played by Kriti Sanon, is called Janaki,
while Saif Ali Khan’s Ravana is Lankesh, also a derivative of their “Ramayana” names. Adipurush literally means “first man,” but here the interpretation is that of best man.’
Anushka Shetty, Anushka Sharma, Kiara Advani, and Keerthy Suresh were approached for the role of Sita, finally, Krithi Sanon was selected.
Charging nearly 150 crores, Prabhas became the highest-paid Indian actor with the movie Adipurush.