Brazil President Lula Da Silva Is "Enchanted" With RRR (image @ lulaoficial)
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, President of Brazil, enunciated his appreciation for the S. S. Rajamouli film RRR while he was at Delhi for the G20 summit. When asked about India, Mr. Lula answered he admired RRR.
“RRR is a three-hour feature film and it has really funny scenes with beautiful dance in the film. There is a deep critique of British control over India and Indians. I really believe this film should have been a blockbuster all around the world”, said Mr. Lula. He further added that he congratulates the director and artists because it “enchanted” him.
S. S. Rajamouli, director of the blockbuster RRR wrote his gratitude for Mr. Lula”s “kind words” on X (formerly twitter).
Sir… @LulaOficial 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you so much for your kind words. It’s heartwarming to learn that you mentioned Indian Cinema and enjoyed RRR!! Our team is ecstatic. Hope you are having a great time in our country. https://t.co/ihvMjiMpXo
— rajamouli ss (@ssrajamouli) September 10, 2023
Mr. Lula also added that if anyone mentioned India in their conversation, he would ask them if they watched RRR. The Oscar winning film is directed by Mr. Rajamouli. The movie has won Oscar for the Best Original Song for its sensational foot tapping song “nattu nattu”. RRR also brought home two Golden Globe awards. One for the Best Non-English Picture and the other for the Best Original Song for “nattu nattu”.
The film portrays the story of pre-independence era with Ram Charan as Alluri Sitarama Raju and Jr NTR as Komaram Bheem, two Indian revolutionaries. Though Raju and Bheem never met each other in real life, the fictional Raju and Bheem fought together to erase British rule from the Indian landscape.
Second part to the movie is rumoured to be on the pipeline. S. S. Rajamouli”s father Vijayendra Prasad, screenwriter of RRR, confirmed that RRR sequel will again star Ram Charan and Jr NTR. However whether Rjamouli will direct the movie is yet to be confirmed. “We are planning to make a sequel on Ram Charan and Jr NTR. The movie will be directed by S. S. Rajamouli or someone else under his supervision”, said Mr. Prasad as cited by Telugu channel.
The movie also stars Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt and Shriya Saran.
With inputs from agencies.
