New Delhi: After successful the Golden Globe and the Critics Choice Award, ‘Naatu Naatu’ from filmmaker SS Rajamouli’s ‘RRR’ on Monday (March 13, 2023) bagged the Oscar within the Best Original Song class. Composed by MM Keeravaani and penned by Chandrabose, the Telugu chartbuster has now turn out to be the primary Indian monitor to win the Academy Award within the Best Original Song class.
‘Naatu Naatu’ was nominated within the class alongside ‘Applause’ from ‘Tell It Like a Woman’, ‘Hold My Hand’ from ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, ‘Lift Me Up’ from ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ and ‘This Is a Life’ from Oscar-winning ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’.
‘Naatu Naatu’ from ‘RRR’ wins the Oscar for Best Original Song! #Oscars #Oscars95 pic.twitter.com/tLDCh6zwmn
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) March 13, 2023
However, not many individuals know that RRR’s “Naatu Naatu” was shot in Ukraine.
The tune, which demonstrates the spirit of enjoyable in nation music in its over 4.35 minutes of runtime, was shot on the lawns of the Presidential Palace of Kyiv.
It begins when the motion epic’s two leads — Ram Charan and NT Rama Rao Jr — flaunt their dance expertise after being bullied as the one Indian folks invited to a British celebration in colonial occasions.
When a younger British man goals racist insults on the leads, they resolve to coach him utilizing the tune “Naatu Naatu.”
The superhit tune celebrates the inclusive spirit of dance and bonhomie and options Charan and Jr NTR matching steps to its catchy rhythm.
“Naatu means ethnicity, ethnic,” composer Keeravani informed Reuters in a current interview.
Since the movie’s launch in 2022, the fast-paced dance quantity has discovered followers everywhere in the world. It has additionally spawned a TikTookay problem and has garnered tens of millions of views on YouTube.
Director Rajamouli had additionally not too long ago revealed in an interview that choreographer Prem Rakshith got here up with over “100 variations” of the hook step for the tune.
“RRR” (Rise Roar Revolt) is a pre-independence fictional story and follows two real-life Indian revolutionaries — Alluri Sitarama Raju (Ram Charan) and Komaram Bheem (Jr NTR) — within the Nineteen Twenties.
RRR’s ‘Naatu Naatu’ Is First Song From Indian Film To Bag Oscar
“Naatu Naatu” is now the first tune from an Indian movie to win an Oscar.
We’re blessed that #RRRMovie is the primary characteristic movie to deliver INDIA’s first ever #Oscar within the Best Song Category with #NaatuNaatu!
No phrases can describe this surreal second.
Dedicating this to all our superb followers internationally. THANK YOU!!
JAI HIND!pic.twitter.com/9g5izBCUks
— RRR Movie (@RRRMovie) March 13, 2023
In 2008, composer AR Rahman received the Oscar for the Hindi tune “Jai Ho”, however that was for the US-British manufacturing of “Slumdog Millionaire”, which was set in India.
