The movie though loses out for the ‘best picture-non English’ to ‘Argentina, 1985’
Los Angeles: SS Rajamouli’s ‘RRR’s hit track ‘Naatu Naatu’ has won the award for the best original song in a motion picture, a PTI report in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says.
The film’s Telugu track ‘Naatu Naatu’, composed by veteran music director MM Keeravaani and sung by Kala Bhairava and Rahul Sipligunj, won the award for best original song.
Keeravani accepted the trophy and thanked Rajamouli for his “vision”.
The veteran music composer also thanked the team behind the track — choreographer Prem Rakshith, lyricist Chandrabose and singers Sipligunj and Bhairava.
The movie though lost out for the ‘best picture-non English’ to ‘Argentina, 1985’.
Directed by Santiago Mitre ‘Argentina, 1985’, is based on real events and follows the events surrounding the 1985 Trial of the Juntas, which prosecuted the ringleaders of Argentina’s last civil-military dictatorship.
The other nominees in ‘best picture-non English’ category were Korean romantic mystery film ‘Decision to Leave’, German anti-war drama ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, and French-Dutch coming-of-age drama ‘Close’.
‘RRR’ follows a pre-Independence fictional story woven around two real-life Indian revolutionaries – Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem – in the 1920s. The film stars Ram Charan, Jr NTR, Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn in key roles.
Released theatrically last March, ‘RRR’ has reportedly made over Rs 1,200 crore at the global box office.
SS Rajamouli’s First Words as RRR Wins Golden Globes
SS Rajamouli, director of RRR, couldn’t control getting emotional as he won a Golden Globe Award for the ‘Naatu Naatu’ song in the film.
SS Rajamouli, the director of the film, talked to ‘The Hollywood Reporter’ right after winning the prestigious international award, and simply concluded by saying ‘”here will I put my trophy? In my heart (sic)!”
Rajamouli represented India at the Golden Globes red carpet in a black dhoti and kurta, with a red-bordered back shawl. The director also reacted to the scenes at LA’s iconic Chinese Theatre the previous night, where the audience started dancing to ‘Naatu Naatu’ in the aisles.
“Isn’t that great? To take the audience out of their seats and make them dance,” he said. “I think it comes from the joy of film watching,” he added.
‘I don’t think America has ever seen that kind of reaction…’:
Rajamouli went on to talk about how America is having its best time dancing to ‘Naatu Naatu’.
He said, “I don’t think America has ever seen that kind of reaction from the audience. Back in India, we do. Humans are humans across the globe wherever they are (sic).”
Talking about the attention RRR is getting and the Oscar season buzz it has created, Rajamouli said: “It really feels great. In India, we make thousands of movies but we hardly get any recognition outside our country. If it puts the spotlight on our films and helps our filmmakers take our stories to the world, it’ll be really great.”
And who’ll be partying after the show? “My stars, Ram Charan and Jr NTR, they’ll be having the most fun,” Rajamouli said. “I’m usually the guy who’s tensed up about whether everything is going to happen properly … and on time,” he added.
While RRR won in the Best Original Music category, the film lost its Golden Globes to ‘Argentina, 1985’ in the Best Non-English Language Film category.
Apart from Jr NTR and Ram Charan, RRR also starred Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, Shriya Saran, Samuthirakani, Ray Stevenson, Alison Doody, and Olivia Morris in important roles.
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