Oscars 2023: A nonetheless from RRR monitor Naatu Naatu
New Delhi:
RRR got here, noticed and completely conquered the ninety fifth Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Naatu Naatu gained the Oscar for Best Original Song – let’s be sincere, was it ever not going to? – and there’s no query of maintaining calm and carrying on. The Oscars had been awarded to composer MM Keeravaani, who sang a model of The Carpenters’ hit Top Of The World as his acceptance speech, and lyricist Chandrabose. The insanely viral monitor is from RRR, directed by SS Rajamouli and that includes actors Ram Charan and Jr NTR, all of whom attended the Academy Awards. Naatu Naatu beat a slate of heavy-weight rivals – Lady Gaga’s Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick, Rihanna’s Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, This Is A Life from Everything Everywhere All At Once, and Applause from Tell It Like A Woman.
It was the second win for an Indian movie – The Elephant Whisperers gained Best Documentary Short Subject. All That Breathes was additionally nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film – the Oscar went to Navalny.
After Naatu Naatu‘s massive win on the Oscars, members of the Indian movie fraternity united to congratulate group RRR. Film legends Rajinikanth and Chiranjeevi, RRR stars Alia Bhatt, Ajay Devgn, Academy Award profitable composer AR Rahman, actors Hrithik Roshan, Mahesh Babu had been among the many many celebs that prolonged their needs after the movie’s wonderful victory.
Naatu Naatu’s world domination is now full, having additionally gained the Golden Globe for Best Original Song in January. The tune was carried out dwell in the course of the Oscar ceremony by singers Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava, and danced by Lauren Gottlieb. Deepika Padukone, the third Indian to attend as a presenter after Persis Khambatta and Priyanka Chopra, launched the efficiency.
MM Keeravaani and Chandrabose be a part of a choose group of Indians to have beforehand gained Oscars – costume designer Bhanu Athaiya, composer AR Rahman, lyricist Gulzar, sound engineer Resul Pookutty, and legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray who obtained an honorary award. Naatu Naatu is the primary Indian tune – and RRR is the primary Indian movie – to have gained an Oscar.
RRR, set in British India, has gained hearts internationally – it is operating to full homes in Japan and just lately held its largest screening but in a Los Angeles cinema the place the viewers danced alongside to Naatu Naatu. The tune, filmed exterior the Presidential Palace in pre-war Kyiv, Ukraine, is an infectious dance battle between Ram Charan and Jr NTR’s characters, Raju and Bheem, versus their British counterparts. Raju and Bheem are the final males standing, sorry dancing, after their sophisticated routine bests their opponents.
