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- “Naatu Naatu” is a track featured within the 2021 movie, RRR.
- It was nominated for Finest Authentic Tune on the eightieth Golden Globe Awards.
- “Naatu Naatu” will compete in opposition to Taylor Swift, Woman Gaga, Rihanna, and extra for the award.
One of many greatest surprises of the 2022 film yr 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 “fairly probably certainly one of cinema’s finest musical dance sequences,” per Slash Movie. It’s the dance quantity that includes Raju (Ram Charan) and Bheem (N. T. Rama Rao Jr.) exhibiting off the British aristocracy alongside to the infectious track, “Naatu Naatu.”
The track itself is an earworm, however what has helped the observe go viral is the dance, choreographed by Prem Rakshith. In a single second, the celebs carry out a hook step, and followers have since headed to TikTok in hopes of recreating the steps. BJ Colangelo‘s dissection of the scene for Slash Movie covers the track’s cultural tie-ins and the way the hook step sequence in “Naatu Naatu” was “designed to make us all need to dance, and it labored brilliantly.”
That brilliance could repay huge throughout the eightieth Golden Globes. The track heads into the Jan. 10 awards present nominated for Finest Tune and would possibly pull off a win over such names like Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Tems, Woman Gaga, and Guillermo del Toro. Earlier than all of it goes down, right here’s a crash course on the track 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’s the native language of over 83 million folks. As of 2021, Telugu cinema, or Tollywood, is the most important movie trade in India.)
“Some songs through the years have gotten consideration, however this was the primary one to get this sort of worldwide response,” Keeravani informed The Wrap. “This response was not anticipated. … There’s a variety of vitality flowing and taking place. The lyrics describe completely different sorts of vitality and the way vitality flows, after which you have got the high-energy beats. … It was a foot-tapping quantity, however then it escalated. It’s not only a track, it’s a whole expertise.”
Whereas the actors sing the track 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 Finest Non-English Language Movie.) To take dwelling Finest Authentic Tune, “Naatu Naatu” must defeat:
- Taylor Swift, “Carolina” — from The place The Crawdads Sing
- Woman Gaga (with BloodPop and Benjamin Rice), “Maintain My Hand” – from High Gun: Maverick
- Rihanna (with Tems, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Göransson), “Elevate Me Up” – from Clean Panther: Wakanda Ceaselessly
- Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, and Guillermo del Toro, “Ciao Papa” – from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Whereas the track should go up in opposition to Rihanna, Gaga, and Taylor, some assume “Naatu Naatu” will stroll away a winner on the Golden Globes.
“It’s the most upbeat track of the bunch because it makes viewers need to dance out to it, and comes with a really catchy tune, with a choreography video scene that a lot of its followers have tried to duplicate on social media,” writes Christopher Tsang for Gold Derby. “It’s a testomony to the movie, which has positively stunned throughout the board with awards our bodies for its over-performance, being the second overseas language movie to make the Nationwide Board of Overview High 10 (after “Roma”), and Rajamouli nabbing the Finest Director prize on the New York Movie Critics Circle, in addition to the film getting 5 Critics Alternative Awards nominations, together with Finest Image and Director.”
Will It Be Nominated For An Oscar?
There’s a probability 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 Finest Authentic Tune. The competitors on this first spherical of voting is hard, and the class solely has 5 accessible nominations. Together with “Naatu Naatu,” the next songs had been shortlisted, (h/t ComicBook.com):
- Giveon, “Time” (Amsterdam),
- The Weeknd, “Nothing Is Misplaced (You Give Me Power)” (Avatar: The Method of Water)
- Rihanna’s “Elevate Me Up” (Black Panther: Wakanda Ceaselessly)
- Son Lux, Mitski, and David Byrne, “This Is A Life” (All the pieces In every single place All at As soon as)
- Gregory Mann, “Ciao Papa” (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio)
- Rita Wilson, “Til You’re House” (A Man Known as Otto)
- Selena Gomez, “My Thoughts & Me” (Selena Gomez: My Thoughts & Me)
- Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell, “Good Afternoon” (Spirited)
- Sofia Carlson and Diane Warren, “Applause” (Inform It Like a Lady)
- Jazmine Sullivan, “Stand Up” (Until)
- Woman Gaga, “Maintain My Hand” (High Gun: Maverick)
- Norah Jones and Ralph, “Mud & Ash” (The Voice of Mud and Ash)
- Taylor Swift, “Carolina” (The place the Crawdads Sing)
- LCD Soundsystem, “New Physique Rhumba” (White Noise)
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Whether or not 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 probably for opening the doorways for extra Telugu songs to obtain worldwide acclaim.
“In India, we’re used to crowds going ballistic throughout screenings: shouting, laughing, clapping, dancing, throwing confetti into the air,” says director Rajamouli to RogerEbert.com. “However to see that taking place exterior my nation, exterior my languages, is an unimaginable feeling. I’d by no means even dreamt that RRR would resonate with folks throughout cultures, throughout nations. I by no means anticipated that.”
