RRR is one of the biggest Indian movies of all time, at home, in Australia, and on Netflix. But there’s more to the picture than mad action and splashy effects | karlkwin
is a three-hour-plus historical drama set in the 1920s that tells the story of two real heroes of the Indian independence movement, Komaram Bheem , an Indigenous tribal leader, and Alluri Sitarama Raju , a guerilla leader. Both Bheem and Ram, as they are known in the film, are highly fictionalised versions of these historical figures, with the latter waging his campaign from within the British military .
Not quite. The movie was made in the Telugu language spoken in southern India. Bollywood films are primarily made in Hindi. The south Indian industry, which also makes movies in Tamil and Malayalam, is colloquially known as Tollywood, and turns out around 300 features a year, about a quarter as many as Bollywood.In India, where the average ticket price is about 100 rupees , the film has taken more than 10 billion rupees . That suggests around 100 million Indians have seen it in cinemas.
On May 20, the film debuted on Netflix in 15 different subtitled languages at number seven globally. For the next three weeks it was number one. In its first four weeks on the streamer it was “viewed for 45 million hours across the world”, a spokesman for the company says. It has been in the top 10 in 62 countries including the US, Brazil, UK, Kenya, Italy, Australia and New Zealand.
Stretching belief: the film’s lush visual effects push plausibility to the limit, but deliver masses of spectacle.Shankar observes that the movie’s “nationalist sentiment” comes into focus here, by “merging together disparate groups” including those, such as Bheem’s Indigenous Gond, “that have been antagonised and oppressed by the Indian state into a unified Indian identity”.
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