# Rajamouli’s Varanasi hires linguist for fictional language

2026-10-08T09:11:29+00:00 | Entertainment | Indian Opinion Desk

Corroboration: 2 independent outlets

SS Rajamouli’s upcoming film Varanasi will feature a fictional language created by a linguistic expert. The language appears in a time-travel sequence where characters enter a cave with writings in an ancient script and must decode them to advance the story. m9.news and telugu360.com both report the development, citing a Variety India story. Rajamouli previously used a constructed language, Kiliki, for the Kalakeya warriors in Baahubali. The makers have now brought in an expert to develop a full system with grammar, syntax and a written script for Varanasi. The film stars Mahesh Babu, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Prithviraj Sukumaran and is scheduled to release on 7 April 2027.

## Indian Opinion Analysis

m9.news calls the language a ‘secret’ and leads with world-building comparisons to Game of Thrones, framing it as a milestone for Indian cinema. telugu360.com sticks to a factual report: what the language is, who created it, and where it appears, without hyping the significance. Both confirm the same facts: a linguistic expert, a cave sequence, a time-travel plot, and an April 2027 release. m9.news leans sensationalist by foregrounding spectacle, telugu360.com stays neutral. The balanced reading is that Rajamouli is expanding his use of constructed languages beyond Baahubali’s spoken Kiliki, but neither source names the expert or provides details on the script.

## Coverage

Coverage: 2 sources, 1 neutral, 1 sensationalist
- m9.news (sensationalist) <https://www.m9.news/movienews/mahesh-babu-rajamouli-varanasi-fictional-language-time-travel/>
  Leads with spectacle and world-building hype
- telugu360.com (neutral report) <https://www.telugu360.com/a-new-fictional-language-in-varanasi/>
  Straight report, no dramatic framing

This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry.

Tags: Mahesh Babu, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, SS Rajamouli, Varanasi
Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/rajamoulis-varanasi-hires-linguist-for-fictional-language/
License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources.
Cite: https://indianopinion.org/rajamoulis-varanasi-hires-linguist-for-fictional-language/#story-in-brief

How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/