故事发生在一个名为摩喜施末底的王国之中，激烈的王位争夺之战正在巴霍巴利（帕拉巴斯 Prabhas 饰）和巴哈拉拉德瓦（拉纳·达格巴帝 Rana Daggubati 饰）之间如火如荼的展开着。巴霍巴利为人正直而勇敢，坚信要凭借自己的真正实力夺得王位，而巴哈拉拉德瓦却恰恰相反，为了得到想要的东西，阴险狡猾的他愿意不择手段。
The film which is based on the life on an Indian scientist Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, who is credited to have constructed India's first unmanned plane is the tale of the hardships that he went through on the journey to discover. Also the film is set in the pre-independence era of Bombay of 1895.
