India celebrates RRR’s Naatu song making history at Golden Globes

Native media stories mentioned it was the primary time an Indian movie has received an award on the competitors.

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Music director M M Keeravani poses with the award at Beverly Hilton Lodge in Beverly Hills, California [Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP]

India is celebrating a uncommon Hollywood award triumph after the regional-language movie RRR received a Golden Globe for one of the best music, seeing off competitors from main singers Taylor Swift and Rihanna.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hailed the “very particular accomplishment” after the win by the motion film’s barnstorming, high-octane quantity, Naatu Naatu.

“This prestigious honour has made each Indian very proud,” Modi mentioned on Twitter.

Native media stories mentioned it was the primary time an Indian movie has received an award on the competitors.

South India’s Telugu-language movie launched final March, RRR has seen big viewers numbers for an area movie – each at residence and overseas.

RRR was additionally nominated in one of the best non-English language movie class but it surely misplaced to the movie Argentina, 1985.

In keeping with director SS Rajamouli, a scene that includes the music was shot outdoors Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s official residence in 2021 – earlier than Russia’s invasion.

The critically acclaimed Rajamouli, who has produced a few of India’s greatest blockbusters in the previous couple of years, mentioned it was a “particular” award.

“SPEECHLESS Music actually is aware of no boundaries. I thank every fan throughout the globe for shaking their leg and making it widespread ever for the reason that launch. #GoldenGlobes,” he tweeted.

Within the music, co-actors Ram Charan and Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao Jr stomp throughout the ground in a vigorous routine that blends a number of dance kinds and has sparked viral imitations on-line.

“It took me two months to choreograph it. We shot for 20 days and did 43 retakes,” choreographer Prem Rakshit instructed Indian media.

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan joined others to have fun the win.

“Sir simply awoke and began dancing to Naatu Naatu celebrating your win at Golden Globes,” Khan instructed Rajamouli on Twitter. “Right here’s to many extra awards & making India so proud!!” he added.

Led by the Hindi-language Bollywood, India has the world’s most prolific movie business. It churns out 1000's of flicks every year in a number of Indian languages, that are additionally dubbed and consumed by audiences throughout South Asia, Central Asia, Africa and past.

Rajamouli instructed The Hollywood Reporter earlier than his win that international recognition was “actually necessary”.

“If this buzz actually places a highlight on our business and helps me and my filmmakers sooner or later to take our tales outdoors the world. So it's actually actually necessary to us,” he mentioned.

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