Chennai:
Students of the Civil engineering department in Vellore Institute of Technology were in for a surprise, when one of their internal assessment tests featured two 20 mark questions and a 10 mark question asking them to design engineering set-pieces for the shoot of
Baahubali - The conclusion war sequences. (Also Read:
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Image Courtesy: iflickz.comThe structural operations question paper put the candidates in the shoes of the film's set engineer, asking them to compute the optimum structural stability of the battle sets to ensure the safety of the actors.
Image Courtesy: iflickz.comOne of the assistant professors, who had set the question paper, had reportedly said that it was a conscious decision to make students appreciate the training process by adding relevant cultural and artistic references from our everyday lives. This definitely is a totally different level of reach for S S Rajamouli's epic historical saga.