Indian hitmaker S.S. Rajamouli is basking in the success of his latest epic, period action drama “RRR” (“Rise Roar Revolt”). The film released March 25 worldwide and scored a $65 millio…
) meet and become fast friends. Their common enemy are the occupying colonial British. The cast also includes Bollywood A-listers Ajay Devgn and Alia Bhatt.
In “RRR,” the two male leads have the kind of strength and prowess normally associated with superheroes. Bringing together two superheroes had been in Rajamouli’s mind from his childhood and, to that, he added elements of revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s memoir “The Motorcycle Diaries.” “Everyone knew it was inevitable that the state was going to split but there was an animosity between the brothers — both are Telugu people but Andhra is different and Telangana is different and that animosity made me feel sad,” says Rajamouli. “So that was also running through my mind: If I can tell a story about them being unified rather than fighting. I had this thought that Komaram Bheem is from the Telangana region and Alluri Sitarama Raju is from the Andhra region.
The film’s elaborate set pieces, which look fluid and effortless on screen, was by dint of detailed planning from Rajamouli and his team, which includes top Indian talents such as VFX head Srinivas Mohan, production designer Sabu Cyril, DoP K.K. Senthil Kumar and editor A. Sreekar Prasad, alongside composer Keeravani.
One of the film’s talking points is the “Naatu Naatu” dance number, choreographed by Prem Rakshith, where the two leads match frenetic steps in perfect sync. “I needed to establish the camaraderie between them, so when you see them doing a step so alike each other, unknowingly, that gives you [the feeling] that these guys think alike, act alike,” says Rajamouli. “Underneath all the dance and fun, in the next part of the film, they’re going to do even more amazing things together.
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