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The song ‘Naatu Naatu’, from the wildly popular Telugu film RRR, made history at the 80th Golden Globes as it became the first Indian song to win the Some of the other nominees in the category were Rihanna’s ‘Lift Me Up’ from Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Taylor Swift’s ‘Carolina’ from Where the Crawdads Sing and Lady Gaga’s ‘Hold My Hand’ from Top Gun: Maverick. RRR was also nominated in the Best Non-English Language film category but lost to Argentina 1985. Directed by S S Rajamouli, who earlier made the Baahubali films which started the pan-Indian movie trend, RRR is an action drama of epic proportions. Set in 1920, it tells a fictionalised story of two real-life Indian revolutionaries, Also Read | ‘Naatu Naatu’ comes at a pivotal point in the film: the two heroes are at a party hosted by the British elite and decide to show the British what ‘real dancing’ is all about. It is an assertion of their pride as Indians, and as some white people at the party enthusiastically take to the song, it is also an indication of how the tide is turning against the strictly enforced sense of superiority that the British had enforced on their colonial subjects. What is RRR about? According to Rajamouli, the idea for RRR came to him when he read about the lives of Sitharama Raju (who fought against the British Raj) and Bheem (who fought against the Nizam of “When I read about Alluri Sitharama Raju and Komaram Bheem, it was exciting to know that their story is similar. They nev...

New Delhi, Jan 6 (PTI) Filmmaker SS Rajamouli’s period action blockbuster “RRR” on Thursday missed out on the nomination at the 2023 BAFTA Film Awards, but Shaunak Sen made it to the final five in the best documentary segment with “All That Breathes”. “RRR” was in the longlist for the ‘film not in English language’ category but couldn’t find a spot in the segment’s final nominees list, which were announced by British actors Hayley Atwell and Toheeb Jimoh via a livestream. The final five nominees of the category were “All Quiet on the Western Front”, “Argentina, 1985”, “Corsage”, “Decision To Leave”, and “The Quiet Girl”. Sen’s “All That Breathes”, an internationally co-produced Hindi title, is nominated in the best documentary category along with “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”, “Fire of Love”, “Moonage Daydream” and “Navalny”. Set in Delhi, the documentary follows two siblings, Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad, who have devoted their lives to rescuing and treating injured birds, especially black kites. “All That Breathes” previously won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, a film gala that promotes independent cinema and filmmakers, and earned the Golden Eye award for the best documentary at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. The 2023 BAFTA award ceremony will take place on February 19 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. The BAFTA snub of “RRR” comes as a rare miss for the film which earlier this month bagged ...