It was indeed a day to be remembered for India post its win at the Golden Globe awards for SS Rajamouli’s film RRR. The film’s song Naatu Naatu, won the Best Original Song at the Golden Globes. The song was composed by MM Keeravani, the track features Ram Charan and Jr NTR extraordinary move to the fast synced beats which played in rapid pace. The song has been penned by Chandrabose is elated for the honor and mentioned that he had ‘written 90 per cent’ of the song in just a day, and the rest part took 1.7 years.
He spoke to ANI, “It’s a big deal for me. I thank SS Rajamouli and MM Keeravani for giving me the opportunity to write a song for RRR. I wrote 90% of the song within half a day and rest 10% took 1.7 yrs. My effort, hard work and patience have paid off.”
Jr NTR had talked about how this song was specifically gruelling to shoot and SS Rajamouli had ‘tortured’ them to master the art of synchronisation. “We shot it on the last leg of the film. We were tortured for 65 nights. We were beating each other, me and Ram Charan — we were killing each other and then it started with apologising — SS Rajamouli really wanted us to hate each other. Finally, by the 21st or 22nd night, we stopped apologising and said let’s get it done. And that’s when he brings his bazooka, called Naatu Naatu. We’ve done complicated steps, but Naatu Naatu is not about the steps being complicated, it was the synchronisation, which Rajamouli stressed on,” he said, adding, “We shot that song for 12 days, and this man would torture us from 8-8, we would sleep at 11:30, and wake up at 5:30. This happened after 7 days of rehearsals. He was so hell-bent on sychronisation, watching on the monitor if the legs and hands went together, and I was like ‘Jesus, why are you doing this?”
RRR song “Naatu Naatu” was fcaing competition with Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Taylor Swift’s “Carolina” from Where the Crawdads Sing, Lady Gaga’s “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick and “Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. The film was also categorized in the Best Non-English Language film category, but Argentina 1985 took over the award.
