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1973年10月10日、カルナータカ州ライチュール生まれ。父親はテルグ映画界のベテラン脚本家で監督作もあるV.ヴィジャエーンドラ・プラサード。CMの製作、ETV のテレビ・ドラマ演出を経て、01年にNTRJr.主演の“STUDENT NO.1”で監督デビュー。09年の『マガディーラ 勇者転生』はラーム・チャランを主演にVFXやスペクタクル・シーンもふんだんに盛り込み、テルグ語映画史に残るブロックバスターとなって大巨匠ラージャマウリの名を全インドに轟かせた。その後手掛けた2作『あなたがいてこそ』（10）、『マッキー』（12）も大ヒットを記録。そして、2部作『バーフバリ 伝説誕生』（15）、『バーフバリ 王の凱旋』（17）は、合計で世界興収3万7000万ドル（約418億円）をあげ、まさにインド映画史上最大の映画となり、『～伝説誕生』でナショナル・フィルム・アワード最優秀映画賞、フィルムフェア賞最優秀テルグ語映画監督賞、インド国際映画賞最優秀監督賞、南インド国際映画賞最優秀監督賞、CineMAA 最優秀監督賞など数多くの賞に輝き、『～王の凱旋』もサターン賞の最優秀外国語映画賞、ナショナル・フィルム・アワード最高人気映画賞、最優秀アクション監督賞、最優秀特殊効果賞などを受賞した。 CLOSE

“RRR,” an Indian action epic from filmmaker The Telugu-language film starring Original song “Naatu Naatu” already took home a Golden Globe this year, and when India didn’t submit “RRR” as its official selection for the international feature film Oscar in September, its team shifted strategy, aiming for a best picture nomination. Although it wasn’t

When it comes to cinematic propaganda, blatant is better than insidious. Overt advocacy has the virtue of candor and the vigor of fervent emotion. A movie such as “ “RRR”—the title stands for “Rise Roar Revolt”—turns history into legend by way of heightened visual rhetoric. It’s based very loosely on the real-life stories of two Indian revolutionaries of the early twentieth century, Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem, who contested the oppressions of British colonial power. There’s no record of their having met, let alone joining forces. The director, On a motor trip through the Indian countryside, Catherine Buxton (Alison Doody), the high-handed wife of the British colonial governor, buys an Indian girl named Malli (Twinkle Sharma) as one might buy a pet. The governor’s party carts the child away over the protests of her mother, Loki (Ahmareen Anjum), who is brutalized by British guards. Malli is from the Gond tribe, which is said to hold fast together, and its so-called shepherd, Bheem (N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.), a fierce warrior, heads to Delhi to find her, disguising himself as a Muslim mechanic named Akhtar. The British governor, Scott Buxton (Ray Stevenson), is warned by an Indian police officer about the shepherd and his ferocity; Buxton orders his officers to find and capture the shepherd. One of his Indian police officers, Raju (Ram Charan), volunteers for the mission, planning to infiltrate the city’s revolutionary Indian circles. In Delhi, two Indian strangers se...

The Telugu language Indian action epic “RRR” (short for “Rise Roar Revolt”) has returned to US theaters for an exceptional one-night-only engagement on June 1st following its initial theatrical release. Some hindsight has made it easy to guess why writer/director S.S. Rajamouli has only now broken through to Western audiences with “RRR” despite his consistent box office success. Rajamouli’s latest is an anti-colonial fable and buddy drama about the imaginary combo of two real-life freedom fighters, Komaram Bheem (N.T. Rama Rao Jr.) and Alluri Sitarama Raju ( By the time he made “RRR,” Rajamouli had already developed his brand of Nationalistic self-mythologizing with some help from recurring collaborators like regular story writer (and biological father) Set in and around Delhi in 1920, “RRR” pointedly lacks historical context so that Rajamouli and his team can transform a straight-forward rescue mission into a rallying cry for reunification and also cathartic violence. Bheem, the avenging “shepherd” of the Adivasian Gond tribe, visits Delhi to track down Malli ( Raju, a peerless Colonial police officer, befriends Bheem without realizing that they’re at cross purposes: Bheem wants to break into Scott’s fortress-like quarters to rescue Maali while Raju wants to catch the unknown “tribal” that Scott’s lackey Edward ( It’s also fitting that “RRR” is Rajamouli’s big breakthrough since it's inevitably about Bheem as an inspiring symbol of quasi-traditional, boundary-trampling pa...