Naatu Naatu, a peppy four-and-a-half-minute dance quantity from the Telugu blockbuster RRR, waltzed into the file books on Wednesday when it turned the primary track from India to win a Golden Globe for Greatest Authentic Music.
At a glittering ceremony in Los Angeles, music director MM Keeravani’s creation beat out nominees sung by superstars reminiscent of Girl Gaga, Rihanna and Taylor Swift to win the Golden Globe, which opens the awards season in Hollywood that ends with the Academy Awards in March.
The observe — composed by Keeravaani and written by Chandrabose — was sung by singers Kala Bhairava and Rahul Sipligunj. Wearing black, Keeravani accepted the award in particular person and thanked director SS Rajamouli for his imaginative and prescient.
“This award belongs to, so as of precedence, my brother and the director of the film, SS Rajamouli for his imaginative and prescient. I thank him for this fixed belief in my work and assist,” the veteran composer, who can also be credited as MM Kreem and Maragathamani in Hindi and Tamil cinema, respectively.
Rajamouli returned the praise. “Music actually is aware of no boundaries,” he tweeted.
Celebrations in India have been led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and AR Rahman, who was the final Indian music composer to win the Golden Globe, for his rating in Slumdog Millionaire. “This prestigious honour has made each Indian very proud,” Modi stated. “It’s a paradigm shift,” Rahman stated.
RRR was additionally nominated within the Greatest Image-Non-English class however misplaced out to the historic drama Argentina, 1985. The large-budget interval movie weaves a pre-Independence fictional story round two real-life revolutionaries — Alluri Sitarama Raju (Ram Charan) and Komaram Bheem (Jr NTR) — within the Nineteen Twenties. Naatu Naatu can also be on the Oscars shortlist, alongside 14 different songs.