SS Rajamouli’s ‘RRR’ wins Best International Film at Hollywood Critics Association Award

‘RRR,’ directed by SS Rajamouli, has won the ‘Best International Film’ award at the Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards. The award was accepted with joy and pride by film director Rajamouli and actor Ram Charan. It also received three additional HCA film awards.

After receiving the award, Ram Charan expressed his happiness and said, “I didn’t expect to come up (on the) stage because I was told by my director to accompany him, so…thank you so much for giving us all this love, it’s just a great response, so we’re going to come back with better films and entertain you all. Thank you so much, thank you HCA!”

Rajamouli dedicated the award to the Indian filmmakers and said, “Aaah! The best International film…again to all my fellow filmmakers in India, it is for all of us to believe we can truly make International films! Thank you HCA for that…it means a lot. Thank you very much…a lot. Jai Hind!”

Before bagging the ‘Best International Film’ award, ‘RRR’ won three awards at HCA – ‘Best Action Film’, ‘Best Stunts’, and ‘Best Original Song’.

With the victory, fans’ hopes for an Oscar have been dashed. The ‘RRR’ team is currently in Los Angeles, where they will attend the Oscars on March 12. The ‘RRR’ song ‘Naatu Naatu’ has been nominated for an Oscar in the ‘Original Song’ category.

In January this year, ‘Naatu Naatu’ won the Golden Globes in the ‘Best Original Song’ category. The song was nominated alongside Taylor Swift’s ‘Carolina’ from ‘Where The Crawdads Sing’, ‘Ciao Papa’ from ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’, Lady Gaga’s ‘Hold My Hand’ from ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and Rihanna’s ‘Lift Me Up’ from ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’.

Five days later, at the 28th edition of the Critics Choice Awards, ‘RRR’ won two more awards. The song ‘Naatu Naatu’ from the film ‘RRR,’ starring Jr NTR and Ram Charan, won the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Song. In addition, it received the ‘Critics’ Choice Award for ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ at a ceremony in Los Angeles.

The film RRR is based on the lives of two Telugu freedom fighters, Alluri Seetharama Raju and Komaram Bheem. Ram Charan and Jr NTR played the lead roles. The film grossed over Rs. 1,200 crore worldwide. The film also starred Alia Bhatt, Ajay Devgn, and Shriya Saran.