to have the potential to be a good king, in the sequel, his desire for power makes him evil and he begins to do hideous things to accomplish his goal which makes him lose his sanity eventually and he transforms into a hateful character. Despite being the king, he feels like he has nothing. Baahubali was a good man and he died as one, while Bhallaladeva did not have the virtue of greatness from the beginning. His actions were guided by basic human emotions such as jealousy, envy, desire and loneliness. The Indian Express considers him as the most interesting character of the film even more than Baahubali and Devasena, and calls him "the only character that achieves such a huge transformation through the course of the film". Arkadev Ghoshal of IB Times considers him to be a sadist. Bollywood Life considered him to be the smartest character of Baahubali: The Conclusion. His son Bhadrudu was revealed to be adopted by SS Rajamouli, while Rana Daggubati jokingly said that he is a surrogate child. Another reviewer credited the female characters over Bhallaladeva. Development Characterization The character of Bhallaladeva is inspired from Ravana of Ramayana and Duryodhana of Mahabharata. Just like Ravana kidnapped Sita, he also captured Devasena and kept her for 25 years. Bhallaladeva's feeling of having his right denied before birth and his father is denied the right to the throne due to his disability is contrasted with the denial of the throne to Duryodhana's father Dhritarashtra due to his blindness and his feelings about the matter. Notable works done by Bhallaladeva Bhallaladeva killed his enemy king Inkoshi of the Kalakeyas; tried to kill Mahendra Baahubali; imprisoned Devasena for 25 years and was involved in the murder of Amarendra Baahubali and Sivagami. In the battle against Kalkeyas he killed many soldiers, the king of Kalkeya (already wounded by Amarendra Baahubali) and even few of his kingdom's own innocent subjects imprisoned by Kalkeyas. In order to become the king, he killed Kalkeya just a second before Amarendra Baahubali was doing so, but still he was made the Senapati for not saving the innocent subjects of Mahishmati during the war whom he could have saved. He had tried to kill Baahubali many times even before the Kalkeya War. He destroyed the whole Kuntaladesha only due to his anger on Devasena. A 90 metre tall gold statue of Bhallaladeva was built after