S. S. Rajamouli poses within the press room with the award for greatest international language movie for “RRR” on the twenty eighth annual Critics Choice Awards at The Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel on Sunday, January 15, 2023, in Los Angeles.
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S.S. Rajamouli’s ” RRR” continued its profitable streak as the worldwide blockbuster received two trophies — Best Foreign Language Film and Best Song for “Naatu Naatu” — on the Critics Choice Awards (CCA).

The Telugu magnum opus, headlined by Ram Charan and Jr NTR, was nominated in 5 classes on the CCA — Best Picture, Best Director (Rajamouli), Best Foreign Language movie, Best Visual Effects (V. Srinivas Mohan) and Best Song (‘Naatu Naatu’).

In the Best Foreign Language Film, ” RRR” was competing towards movies corresponding to ” All Quiet on the Western Front“, ” Argentina 1985“, ” Bardo“, ” False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths“, ” Close” and ” Decision to Leave“.

Directed by filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli, ” RRR” is a pre-Independence fictional story specializing in two real-life Indian revolutionaries within the Twenties — Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem.

The footapping dance quantity from the movie “Naatu Naatu”, which won the ‘best original song-motion picture’ at the Golden Globes last week, was nominated for the CCA alongside facet “Carolina” ( Where the Crawdads Sing), “Ciao Papa” ( Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), “Hold My Hand” ( Top Gun: Maverick), “Lift Me Up” ( Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) and “New Body Rhumba” ( White Noise).

The monitor has been composed by veteran music director M.M. Keeravaani and voiced by singers Kala Bhairava and Rahul Sipligunj.

Filmed on Ram Charan and Jr NTR, “Naatu Naatu” interprets to bucolic in Telugu and demonstrates the spirit of enjoyable in nation music over 4.35 breathless minutes of tune and dance. Choreographed by Prem Rakshith, it has legions of followers nonetheless attempting to grasp its steps.

It additionally options within the Oscars shortlist introduced final month. Last week, the film made it to the BAFTA longlist for ‘film not in English language’ class.