RRRwho competed in the Critics Awards with Argentina, 1985 in the category of best foreign language filmFinally received the award this Sunday in the evening.
At the gala last Tuesday when they delivered the Golden Globes, the result was reversed: the laurels went to the film of Santiago Mitrawith Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani.
But, this time, the statuette was for the Indian production: it is the feature film that made history in the cinemas of its country and then became a worldwide phenomenon via Netflix.
In the category of these prizes awarded annually by American critics, RRR -directed by SS Rajamouli- competed with Argentina, 1985, with German No news at the frontwith the Belgian closethe South Korean Decision to leaveand with Mexican BARD, False chronicle of few truths.
unconventional
RRR is most expensive Indian film ever and had a record collection. Y none of its features are conventional: neither what matters, nor its duration, nor its development.
It lasts three hours, for example, but it’s not heavy or boring. Director SS Rajamouli is an expert in action cinema and manages to successfully combine epic scenes, human storylines and musical numbers, how could it be otherwise coming from Bollywood.
Another special fact is that on the platform the film is not dubbed into Spanishthough it is dubbed from original telugu to hindi but it has subtitle in our language.
The musical numbers of the film already have them more than 130 million views on YouTube.
Call to RRR “wider than Ben Hurwrote critic Stephanie Bunbury of Deadline Hollywood:RRR is one action crescendo after another, never boring but not exhausting either“.
Actors and plot
The protagonists are RamaRao Jr. Y ramcharam, such as Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju. Englishman Ray Stevenson (by Thor) plays the villainous Buxton, Alison Doody (dead man Walking) to his sadistic wife and young Olivia Morris (Portofino Hotel) is his granddaughter Jenny.
In the story they play two real characters, but everything that happens is fictional. It is set in 1920, during the British rule in India.and the action begins when Malli, a girl from the Gond tribe, is kidnapped by administrator Scott Buxton and his capricious wife.
This painful act for his family and friends leads the representative of the tribe, Komaram Bheem, to go to Delhi to save them. There is Rama Raju, an ambitious Indian Imperial Police officer who is harboring a dangerous secret.
Knowing that Bheem’s arrival in the capital endangers the Buxtons, the government puts a bounty on his head. Raju personally offers to hunt him down.and thus obtain the promotion he craves, without knowing that fate has a meeting in store for him that will change his life forever.
two superheroes
According to his manager, RRR is about an imaginary friendship between two superheroes, and borrows two major Hindu mythological epics from IndiaRamayana and Mahabharata as protagonists are modeled on the characters it is based on, Bheem is a strong and powerful man while Raju is an intelligent and agile young man.
The charm of RRR it is in the development that SS Rajamouli gives to the storywhere there are animals that become allies to finish off the invading enemy, and fights where logic and physics have no place.
The result is a proposal as captivating as it is original, where friendship and the fight for freedom become the main themes.
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Source: Clarin
