Actor Mrunal Thakur, who will star as a young Sivagami in Netflix’s ambitious live-action series “Baahubali: Before the Beginning”, says it would be challenging to measure up to Ramya Krishnan’s portrayal of the queen.

a singular emotion and singular conflict, now we are exploring it in a deeper way.You will also get deeper into the street level life and multi-layer life in the kingdom, Deva Katta said.

He also said that being a Netflix project allowed them the opportunity to explore different characters and their individual stories,

“When we have consciously evolving characters throughout unpredictable eventualities, we relate to those stories a lot. Those are epic stories like Ramayana and Mahabharata. They stand in time and are relevant to us. When you dig deeper and make the characters more dimensional with root stories and root psyche, that’s what this platform gives us. We grew up watching a lot of Hollywood films and that’s what ignited our passions to become storytellers.

Co-director Praveen Sataru said the series is being shot in different locations in India and stressed that the show will have a pan-India appeal.

“We are covering the length and breadth of India. This is not just a south or north series. It’s a pan-India series and you have characters from all across India.

“Baahubali: Before the Beginning , which was announced by the streaming giant in August, has already been given a two-season order.