SS Rajamouli’s directorial, ‘RRR’ has bagged the ‘Best International Film’ award at the Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards. The film director Rajamouli and actor Ram Charan accepted the award with joy and pride. It has also won three more awards at the HCA film awards.
After receiving the award, Ram Charan expressed his happiness and said, “I didn’t expect to come up (on the) stage because I was told by my director to accompany him, so…thank you so much for giving us all this love, it’s just a great response, so we’re going to come back with better films and entertain you all. Thank you so much, thank you HCA!”
Rajamouli dedicated the award to the Indian filmmakers and said, “Aaah! The best International film…again to all my fellow filmmakers in India, it is for all of us to believe we can truly make International films! Thank you HCA for that…it means a lot. Thank you very much…a lot. Jai Hind!”
And the HCA Award for Best International Film goes to…
🏆 RRR#RRR #RRRMovie #RamCharan #SSRajamouli #NTRamaRaoJr #HCAFilmAwards #BestInternationalFilm pic.twitter.com/iIetZqb8cS
— Hollywood Critics Association (@HCAcritics) February 25, 2023
Before bagging the ‘Best International Film’ award, ‘RRR’ won three awards at HCA – ‘Best Action Film’, ‘Best Stunts’, and ‘Best Original Song’. With the win, fans have all their hopes pinned on an Oscar. Team ‘RRR’ is currently in Los Angeles and will be attending the Oscars on March 12. ‘RRR’ song ‘Naatu Naatu has been nominated for the Oscars in ‘Original Song’ category.
Here’s @ssrajamouli’s acceptance speech of #HCAcritics award for Best Stunts.
Congratulations to our entire team 🙌🏻❤️ #RRRMovie @HCAcritics pic.twitter.com/kRYW9PICau
— RRR Movie (@RRRMovie) February 25, 2023
In January this year, ‘Naatu Naatu’ won the Golden Globes in the ‘Best Original Song’ category. The song was nominated alongside Taylor Swift’s ‘Carolina’ from ‘Where The Crawdads Sing’, ‘Ciao Papa’ from ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’, Lady Gaga’s ‘Hold My Hand’ from ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and Rihanna’s ‘Lift Me Up’ from ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’.
RRR is available to stream on ZEE5 Global in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
