Filmmaker SS Rajamouli is currently busy with the US award campaign for RRR. Recently, the director appeared on Seth Meyer’s late night show talking about the Ram Charan-Jr NTR film. RRR was an unprecedented success in the West shortly after its release, followed by a digital premiere on Netflix, and Rajamouli’s film became the talk of Hollywood.
Meyers asked the director of Baahubali about the response in the West and the director admitted that at first they thought the media chatter around RRR came from non-Indians who would accompany their Indian friends to watch the film. . “I make films for Indians, people in India and all over the world. So when we started to get interested in the West, our first thought was: these guys must be friends of the Indians who went to see something the film,” he said. . Rajamouli continued, “Then it started to take off, celebrities, writers, actors, a lot of people started tweeting about it, talking about the film on social media. They started to do the movie through word of mouth, we think that’s a lot bigger. Then it was released on Netflix and it was in the top 10 for 15 weeks.
SS Rajamouli’s RRR was nominated in two categories, Best Original Song and Film Non-English, at the 80th Golden Globe Awards. Rajamouli, Ram Charan, Jr NTR and MM Keeravani are expected to attend the award show in California.
