LOS ANGELES, Jan 25 (Reuters) – “Naatu Naatu”, the standout track within the Indian interval movie “RRR,” has gained a Golden Globe and a Critics Alternative Award, garnered a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of views on YouTube and spawned a TikTok problem.
On Tuesday, it acquired an Oscar nomination for greatest unique track, making history as the primary Indian function movie to be nominated for something apart from greatest worldwide movie on the Academy Awards.
Composer M.M. Keeravani is assured the Oscar statuette is inside attain on the ceremony in Hollywood on March 12.
“Yeah, I can see the second taking its root to the street excessive and better, so all fingers crossed and I’ve full confidence in Oscar too,” he mentioned throughout a current interview with Reuters.
Keeravani he came upon about his nomination on Tuesday whereas at a recording studio in India doing a session with a programmer and a few of his singers.
[1/4] M.M. Keeravani, songwriter of ”Naatu Naatu” from the film ”RRR”, which is nominated for greatest unique track on the Oscars, poses for a portrait on the Reuters workplace in Culver Metropolis, California, U.S. January 13, 2023. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci
“They have been all very excited and so they have been leaping out of pleasure,” Keeravani mentioned with fun. “I wasn’t leaping as a result of I used to be surrounded by them and so they have been suffocating me with their congratulations and their hugs.”
“Naatu Naatu” and Keeravani are competing with some huge family names in the most effective track class, together with Woman Gaga’s “Maintain My Hand” from “High Gun: Maverick” and Rihanna’s “Carry Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Without end”.
Within the action-Bollywood epic directed by S.S. Rajamouli, “Naatu Naatu” begins when the 2 leads, performed by Ram Charan and N.T. Rama Rao Jr., flaunt their dance expertise after being bullied as the one Indian folks invited to a British occasion in colonial instances.
When a younger British man goals racist insults on the leads, they resolve to teach him utilizing the track “Naatu Naatu.”
In the course of the scene, which was shot at Ukraine’s grand Mariinskyi Palace, everybody on the occasion, together with the scoffing British man, tries to grasp the strikes.
“Naatu means ethnicity, ethnic,” mentioned Keeravani.“No matter I do is only mine. It’s my very own expertise, it’s my very own means of expression. These are my phrases, that is my type, take a look at me, that is who I’m.”
“Naatu Naatu” is the primary track from an Indian movie to be nominated for an Oscar and the primary nominated track within the Telugu language. In 2008, Indian composer A.R. Rahman gained the Oscar for the Hindi track “Jai-Ho,” however that was for the U.S.-British manufacturing of “Slumdog Millionaire,” which was set in India.
Reporting by Rollo Ross, Danielle Broadway and Alicia Powell; Modifying by Mary Milliken and Jonathan Oatis
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