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- “Naatu Naatu” is a tune featured within the 2021 movie, RRR.
- It was nominated for Best Original Song on the eightieth Golden Globe Awards.
- “Naatu Naatu” will compete towards Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and extra for the award.
One of the largest surprises of the 2022 film 12 months was the worldwide success of RRR, the Telugu-language epic motion drama from director S. S. Rajamouli. A fictionalized/mythological story of friendship between Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem, real-life revolutionaries opposing British rule, RRR options “quite possibly one of cinema’s best musical dance sequences,” per Slash Film. It is the dance quantity that includes Raju (Ram Charan) and Bheem (N. T. Rama Rao Jr.) exhibiting off the British aristocracy alongside to the infectious tune, “Naatu Naatu.”
The tune itself is an earworm, however what has helped the monitor go viral is the dance, choreographed by Prem Rakshith. In one second, the celebs carry out a hook step, and followers have since headed to TikTook in hopes of recreating the steps. BJ Colangelo‘s dissection of the scene for Slash Film covers the song’s cultural tie-ins and the way the hook step sequence in “Naatu Naatu” was “designed to make us all want to dance, and it worked brilliantly.”
That brilliance could repay large throughout the eightieth Golden Globes. The tune heads into the Jan. 10 awards present nominated for Best Song and would possibly pull off a win over such names like Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Tems, Lady Gaga, and Guillermo del Toro. Before all of it goes down, right here’s a crash course on the tune on the coronary heart of RRR.
Who Performs “Naatu Naatu”?
“Naatu Naatu” was composed by M.M. Keeravani, and options with lyrics by Chandrabose, a prolific author who has penned lyrics for greater than 3,500 songs utilized in Telugu movies.
(Telugu is the language spoken primarily in southeastern India, and is the official language of the states Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It is the native language of over 83 million individuals. As of 2021, Telugu cinema, or Tollywood, is the biggest movie business in India.)
“Some songs over the years have gotten attention, but this was the first one to get this kind of international response,” Keeravani instructed The Wrap. “This response was not anticipated. … There’s a lot of energy flowing and happening. The lyrics describe different kinds of energy and how energy flows, and then you have the high-energy beats. … It was a foot-tapping number, but then it escalated. It’s not just a song, it’s an entire experience.”
While the actors sing the tune in RRR, it’s not Rao or Charan’s voices that the viewers hears. “Naatu Naatu” is carried out by playback singers (ghost singers whose singing is pre-recorded for movies) Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava.
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Golden Globe Nomination
“Naatu Naatu” is certainly one of RRR‘s two nominations for the eightieth Golden Globes (the opposite being for Best Non-English Language Film.) To take dwelling Best Original Song, “Naatu Naatu” must defeat:
- Taylor Swift, “Carolina” — from Where The Crawdads Sing
- Lady Gaga (with BloodPop and Benjamin Rice), “Hold My Hand” – from Top Gun: Maverick
- Rihanna (with Tems, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Göransson), “Lift Me Up” – from Blank Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, and Guillermo del Toro, “Ciao Papa” – from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
While the tune should go up towards Rihanna, Gaga, and Taylor, some suppose “Naatu Naatu” will stroll away a winner on the Golden Globes.
“It is the most upbeat song of the bunch as it makes viewers want to dance out to it, and comes with a very catchy tune, with a choreography video scene that many of its fans have tried to replicate on social media,” writes Christopher Tsang for Gold Derby. “It is a testament to the film, which has definitely surprised across the board with awards bodies for its over-performance, being the second foreign language film to make the National Board of Review Top 10 (after “Roma”), and Rajamouli nabbing the Best Director prize on the New York Film Critics Circle, in addition to the film getting 5 Critics Choice Awards nominations, together with Best Picture and Director.”
Will It Be Nominated For An Oscar?
There is an opportunity that “Naatu Naatu” will get nominated for an Oscar. In December 2021, the movie’s official Twitter account revealed that it had been shortlisted for Best Original Song. The competitors on this first spherical of voting is hard, and the class solely has 5 obtainable nominations. Along with “Naatu Naatu,” the next songs had been shortlisted, (h/t ComicBook.com):
- Giveon, “Time” (Amsterdam),
- The Weeknd, “Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” (Avatar: The Way of Water)
- Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up” (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
- Son Lux, Mitski, and David Byrne, “This Is A Life” (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
- Gregory Mann, “Ciao Papa” (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio)
- Rita Wilson, “Til You’re Home” (A Man Called Otto)
- Selena Gomez, “My Mind & Me” (Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me)
- Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell, “Good Afternoon” (Spirited)
- Sofia Carlson and Diane Warren, “Applause” (Tell It Like a Woman)
- Jazmine Sullivan, “Stand Up” (Till)
- Lady Gaga, “Hold My Hand” (Top Gun: Maverick)
- Norah Jones and Ralph, “Dust & Ash” (The Voice of Dust and Ash)
- Taylor Swift, “Carolina” (Where the Crawdads Sing)
- LCD Soundsystem, “New Body Rhumba” (White Noise)
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Whether it takes dwelling a Golden Globe or an Oscar, “Naatu Naatu” is a winner for main new audiences to the nation’s dynamic cinema output — and presumably for opening the doorways for extra Telugu songs to obtain worldwide acclaim.
“In India, we are used to crowds going ballistic during screenings: shouting, laughing, clapping, dancing, throwing confetti into the air,” says director Rajamouli to RogerEbert.com. “But to see that happening outside my country, outside my languages, is an incredible feeling. I’d never even dreamt that RRR would resonate with people across cultures, across countries. I never expected that.”
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