SS Rajamouli’s RRR bags 3 awards at Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Annual Awards including Best Foreign Language Film
RRR, helmed by director SS Rajamouli, is continuing its winning streak in the international movie circuit.
The film has now won three awards at the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Annual Awards. RRR won in these categories – Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography, and Best Score/Soundtrack.
The official Twitter handle of RRR shared a tweet and wrote, “Thank you @PhilaFCC for awarding us with 3 Trophies (trophy, heart eyes and red heart emojis) #RRRForOscars #RRRMovie.” Several fans congratulated the RRR team. A person tweeted, “Congratulations‼︎ It’s a movie I love the more I see it‼︎ A movie of a lifetime that you’d like to see on-screen forever.”
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 and Jr NTR in leading roles. The film released worldwide in March in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi. Also featuring Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn in key roles, RRR emerged as a massive box office success even overseas with reported earnings of ₹1,200 crore.
Recently, RRR secured five nods at the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards. The categories included – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Song, and Best Visual Effects. RRR has also bagged two Golden Globe nominations – Best Picture – Non-English and Best Song for Naatu Naatu.
RRR has also clinched a place, in the ninth spot, in a global list of top 50 films of this year. As per the list curated by Sight and Sound Magazine, “As with Rajamouli’s two-film ancient-India saga Bahubali (2015/2017), RRR – Rise! Roar! Revolt!– is a spectacle aimed at big rooms, a money-on-the-screen CGI-enabled action fantasy whose hyperreal violence is reminiscent of role-playing video games or the ‘heroic bloodshed’ mode of John Woo…”
It also added, “In place of the grinding self-seriousness of the western superhero picture, RRR boasts a kind of Olympian exuberance running through both its action and its musical sequence.”