That introduction scene for Ramaraju where he runs into a crowd dispersing them is inspired by Jon Snow's scene in the episode Battle of B*stards from GoT.
SSR is a huge fan of GoT.
Most of the scenes of arrest of Bheem and his subsequent torture in the arena are apparently inspired from Mel Gibson's movie Passion of Christ.
Though the fire and water analogy didn't work it is the fight between Bheem who is pure soul vs Ramaraju who's willing to tarnish his soul for the larger cause that he believes in.
Though Ramraju is convinced that Bheem and his complete surrender can inspire a movement he still went after Bheem because he needed that promotion in order to empower his people.
They have shown how they empowered people in two different ways.
Bheem's complete surrender has inspired people in the crowd while Ramaraju's idea was empowering people by giving them guns.
Two men with different ways of looking at the fight ahead of them.
RRR found audience among non Indians too because it was the story of two people who rose up against mighty empire while Baahubali attracted attention of the foreigners mostly because of the spectacular visual effects.
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