Gilbert Flores for VarietyThe night before the Globes, Rajamouli, Keeravani and the film’s two leading men, Ram Charan and N.T. In his introduction at the Chinese, Abrams called “RRR” “a film I love and a filmmaker I so admire. “When I envisioned the ‘Naatu Naatu’ song,” said Rajamouli, “while both of them (the actors) are great dancers, I didn’t want the steps to be so complicated that people can’t do it. And in ‘Naatu Naatu,’ this beat took another dimension and another level of BPM (beats per minute) which is very rarely heard in the West. That omission has only increased the resolve among supporters of the film to see the film get vindicated with a nomination for best picture or best director on top of the strong shot at a best song nod.
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