Los Angeles: “Naatu Naatu”, the foot-tapping hit from SS Rajamouli’s “RRR”, danced its strategy to the perfect unique song-motion image win on the Golden Globes, however the Telugu blockbuster misplaced out to “Argentina, 1985” in the perfect picture-non English class.

The track, which celebrates the spirit of dance and friendship, beat out competitors from the likes of Tylor Swift, Rihanna and Girl Gaga to register a win the Globes.

The win for greatest track bolsters the movie’s probabilities of putting gold once more within the Hollywood award season, which culminates with the Oscars, the nominations for which shall be introduced on January 24.

“Naatu Naatu” has already made it to the ninety fifth Academy Awards shortlist for greatest unique track, together with 14 others.

Actor Jenny Ortega introduced the track, composed by veteran music director MM Keeravaani and sung by Kala Bhairava and Rahul Sipligunj, because the winner.

Keeravani thanked Rajamouli for his “imaginative and prescient” as he accepted the award.

“It has been an ages previous observe to say that this award truly belongs to another person. So I used to be planning to not say these phrases after I get an award like this, however I am sorry to say that I’ll repeat the custom as a result of I imply my phrases.

“This award belongs to, so as of precedence, my brother and the director of the film, SS Rajamouli for his imaginative and prescient. I thank him for this fixed belief in my work and help,” Keeravani mentioned.

The veteran music composer additionally thanked the staff behind the observe — choreographer Prem Rakshith, lyricist Chandrabose and singers Sipligunj and Bhairava.

“And NT Rama Rao Jr and Ram Charan for dancing with full stamina for the track.”

Different nominees within the phase have been Swift’s “Carolina” (“The place The Crawdads Sing”), “Ciao Papa” (“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”), “Maintain My Hand” from “High Gun: Maverick”, a collaboration between Gaga, BloodPop and Benjamin Rice, and “Raise Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Without end” by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Goransson.

The movie follows a pre-Independence fictional story woven round two real-life Indian revolutionaries – Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem – within the Nineteen Twenties. The movie stars Ram Charan, Jr NTR, Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn.

“RRR” hoped to transform its twin nominations right into a win however Argentina’s historic drama “Argentina, 1985” emerged because the shock winner within the class.

Additionally nominated within the class have been Korean romantic thriller movie “Choice To Go away”, German anti-war drama “All Quiet on the Western Entrance” and French-Dutch coming-of-age drama “Shut”.

The movie’s staff — led by Rajamouli and its two stars Ram Charan and Jr NTR — got here to the purple carpet of the Golden Globes in fashion.

Whereas Ram Charan and Rajamouli opted for black Indian outfits, Jr NTR wore a black tuxedo to the award ceremony.

Prior to creating his entrance to the purple carpet of the Golden Globes, Ram Charan shared a bunch image with the staff on his Instagram web page.

“THE #RRR FAMILY! On the best way to the GOLDEN GLOBES @goldenglobes (sic)” the actor wrote within the caption. The staff of “RRR” additionally included producer Shobu Yarlagadda.

Ram Charan was accompanied by spouse Upasana Kamineni and Jr NTR got here with Lakshmi Pranathi. Rajamouli was joined by spouse Rama Rajamouli.

On the purple carpet, Ram Charan mentioned it was a surreal second for the movie’s staff to obtain two Golden Globes nominations.

“I’ve no phrases to elucidate all of the onerous work the entire staff has put in. Coming from the south of India to the Mecca of movies and being appreciated, it simply offers us extra vitality to return again and do higher movies,” he advised The Hollywood Reporter

The 37-year-old Charan mentioned he would like to work with high administrators of Hollywood in future.

“I need them to expertise us and the world coming collectively. The cinema is coming collectively. There’s quite a lot of draw back to the pandemic, however the upside is that all of us have been uncovered to quite a lot of movies throughout the globe,” Ram Charan added.

Jr NTR mentioned the large success of “RRR” was one thing that the staff by no means anticipated.

“With Rajamouli, taking his observe file into consideration, we undoubtedly thought we had a winner. However this shall be one thing greater than a winner only a winner. Japan and in the present day America, you do not count on this to occur,” the 39-year-old actor advised Selection.

“RRR”, a lavishly mounted interval epic, was the primary Indian movie in over 20 years to be nominated for the awards.

The opposite two movies nominated within the class earlier known as overseas language movie have been “Salaam Bombay!” (1988) and “Monsoon Wedding ceremony” (2001), each directed by Mira Nair.

Directed by Rajamouli, “RRR” emerged on the worldwide scene after its March 2022 launch and acquired reward for the filmmaker’s imaginative and prescient, high-octane struggle sequences and Keeravaani’s rousing musical soundtrack.

Over the previous few months, the movie — which was launched in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi — acquired rave critiques from Hollywood biggies.

A few of its endorsers included filmmakers Russo Brothers (“The Grey Man”), Edgar Wright (“Child Driver”), Scott Derrickson (“Physician Unusual”), “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise director James Gunn and Oscar winner Jessica Chastain.

The movie has additionally acquired 5 nominations for Critics Selection Awards — Greatest Image, Greatest Director, Greatest Overseas Language Movie, Greatest Music for “Naatu Naatu”, and Greatest Visible Results.

And final week, the film made it to the BAFTA longlist for Movie not in English Language class.

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