“Naatu Naatu” Song from the Indian Movie “RRR” wins Oscars for BEST ORIGINAL SONG. #RRRMovie is the first feature film to bring INDIA’s first ever #Oscar in the Best Song Category with #NaatuNaatu
The 95th Academy Awards was a ceremony held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) on March 12, 2023 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, honoring films released in 2022.
The event was televised in the U.S. by ABC and was produced by Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss. Weiss was also the director. Comedian and late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel hosted the show for the third time, after the 89th and 90th editions of the ceremony in 2017 and 2018.
Everything Everywhere All at Once won seven awards, including Best Picture. Everything Everywhere All at Once also had eleven nominations, the most of the ceremony. Other winners included All Quiet on the Western Front with four awards and The Whale with two. Top Gun: Maverick, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Avatar: The Way of Water, Women Talking, RRR, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Navalny each won one. Short film winners included An Irish Goodbye, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse and The Elephant Whisperers.
LIST OF WINNERS:
BEST PICTURE – Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, and Jonathan Wang
BEST DIRECTOR – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST ACTOR – Brendan Fraser – The Whale as Charlie
BEST ACTRESS – Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Waymond Wang
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Deirdre Beaubeirdre
Best Original Screenplay – Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Best Adapted Screenplay – Women Talking – Sarah Polley; based on the novel by Miriam Toews
Best Animated Feature Film – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, and Alex Bulkley
Best International Feature Film – All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany) – directed by Edward Berger
Best Documentary Feature – Navalny – Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, and Shane Boris
Best Documentary Short Subject – The Elephant Whisperers – Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga
Best Live Action Short Film – An Irish Goodbye – Tom Berkeley and Ross White
Best Animated Short Film – The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud
Best Original Score – All Quiet on the Western Front – Volker Bertelmann
Best Original Song – “Naatu Naatu” from RRR – Music by M. M. Keeravani; Lyrics by Chandrabose
Best Sound – Top Gun: Maverick – Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor
Best Production Design – All Quiet on the Western Front – Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper
Best Cinematography – All Quiet on the Western Front – James Friend
Best Makeup and Hairstyling – The Whale – Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, and Anne Marie Bradley
Best Costume Design – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ruth E. Carter
Best Film Editing – Everything Everywhere All at Once – Paul Rogers
Best Visual Effects – Avatar: The Way of Water – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett
About the Song “Naatu Naatu”
“Naatu Naatu” is an Indian Telugu-language song.
Composed by M. M. Keeravani
Lyrics by Chandrabose
Recorded by Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava, for the soundtrack album of the 2022 Indian film RRR.
Released Date – 10 November 2021 (released on YouTube as a lyrical video song) as the second single from the album, through Lahari Music and T-Series.
The full video song, featuring visuals directly from the film, was released on 11 April 2022 on YouTube.
The song was also released in Hindi as “Naacho Naacho”, in Tamil as “Naattu Koothu”, in Kannada as “Halli Naatu” and in Malayalam as “Karinthol”.
The hook step dance involving N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan – the lead actors of RRR – became popular.
“Naatu Naatu” became the first song from an Indian film to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
It also won the Best Original Song award at the 80th Golden Globe Awards, making it the first Indian as well as the first Asian song to win the award.
The total time taken for producing the song : Over 19 months
According to Chandrabose, he wrote 90% of the song in half a day but it took 1.7 years to write the rest 10%.
“Naatu Naatu” was shot at the Mariinskyi Palace, Ukraine, the official residence of the president of Ukraine in Kyiv, a few months before the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Prem Rakshith choreographed the dance sequences
The song picturization took 15 days. The music video featured about 50 dancers and 300 to 400 extras
Within 24 hours of its release, the song crossed over 17 million views in Telugu (becoming the most-viewed Telugu song), and 35 million views in all five languages on YouTube.
It also became the fastest Telugu song to cross 1 million likes, In February 2022, the song crossed over 200 million views in all languages.
The length of the song is 3 minutes 34 seconds.
Singer Lady Gaga, who had previously won the same award in 2019, stood up and cheered when the Telugu song Naatu Naatu from RRR won Best Original Song. She was the only other nominee to give a standing ovation for the Indian song.
Facts About Oscars:
The Academy awards are also known as the Oscars Awards.
Purpose – Awards for artistic and technical merit for the global film industry.
The awards are given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the awards are recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements of primarily American films, as assessed by the Academy’s voting membership.
PRIZE – The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette as a trophy, officially called the “Academy Award of Merit”, although more commonly referred to by its nickname, the “Oscar.” The statuette, depicting a knight rendered in the Art Deco style, was originally sculpted by Los Angeles artist George Stanley from a design sketch by art director Cedric Gibbons. The Oscar awardees do not receive a direct cash or cheque prize. The statuettes are solid bronze and plated in 24-karat gold. Due to a metal shortage during World War II, Oscars® were made of painted plaster for three years. Following the war, the Academy invited recipients to redeem the plaster figures for gold-plated metal ones.
1st Academy award : 16th May, 1929
The Academy Awards ceremony was first broadcast by radio in 1930 and was televised for the first time in 1953.
It is also the oldest of the four major annual American entertainment awards; its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music – are modeled after the Academy Awards
A total of 3,140 Oscar statuettes have been awarded since its inception in 1929.
The Academy officially adopted the name “Oscar” for the trophies in 1939.
Indians in Oscars
Only 13 Indians have been nominated to the Oscars in its nearly 100 years. Here’s a look at the nominations and the wins.
1958: Though not an official entry, Mehboob Khan’s Mother India (1957) was the first Indian film to receive an honorary mention in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 30th Academy Awards.
1961: At the 33rd Oscars, producer Ismail Merchant’s 13-minute short film The Creation of Woman (1961) and directed by Charles F Schwep was nominated in the Best Short Subject (Live Action) category. It, however, didn’t win.
1969: Fali Bilimoria’s short documentary The House That Ananda Built (1968) was nominated for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 41st Academy Awards but it didn’t win.
1978: Ishu Patel’s short animated Bead Game (1977) was nominated in the Best Animated Short Film category at the 50th Academy Awards, though it did not win.
1979: Producer KK Kapil’s short 18-minute documentary An Encounter with Faces (1978), which was directed by Vidhu Vinodh Chopra, was nominated for Best Documentary (Short Subject), for outstanding visuals and cinematography, at the 51st Oscars. The documentary follows the lives of children in an orphanage. Though it didn’t win the Oscar, the documentary won in the Grad Prix category at the Tampere Film Festival in 1980.
1983: At the 55th Oscars, Bhanu Athaiya became the first Indian to win an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for her work in the film Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi (1982), which she shared with John Mollo.
1987: Producer Ismail Merchant’s second nomination for the Oscars was his 1958 romantic film A Room with a View, which was directed by James Ivory. In the 59th Academy Awards, the film received eight nominations, including Best Picture, and won three awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, and Best Costume Design.
1989: Mira Nair’s iconic film Salaam Bombay! (1988) was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 61st Academy Awards. Despite not winning the Oscar, Salaam Bombay went on to win numerous other awards, including the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. The film offers a glimpse into the lives of street children in the slums of Mumbai, and the challenges they face on a daily basis.
1992: At the 64th Academy Awards, legendary Bengali director Satyajit Ray became the first, and only Indian so far, to receive an Honorary Academy Award. The award was “in recognition of his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures, and of his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world.” Ray’s famous works include The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959), The Music Room (1958), The Big City (1963) and Charulata (1964) and the Goopy–Bagha trilogy.
1993: Merchant’s third nomination for the Academy Awards was the period romantic drama Howards End (1992) for Best Picture at the 65th Academy Awards. The film, which didn’t win the award, eventually enjoyed critical acclaim and commercial success, grossing over $32 million on an $8-million budget.
1994: Yet another Merchant Ivory production, The Remains of the Day (1993), was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture at the 66th Oscars. Despite not winning the Oscar yet again, the British Film Institute ranked The Remains of the Day the 64th-greatest British film of the 20th century.
2002: Ashutosh Gowariker’s Hindi epic sports drama Lagaan (2001) was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 74th Academy Awards. Though the film didn’t win the Oscar, it several awards at Indian award ceremonies, including eight National Film Awards, eight Filmfare Awards, eight Screen Awards and 10 IIFA Awards. The film, which stars Aamir Khan alongside debutant Gracy Singh and British actors Rachel Shelley and Paul Blackthorne, also enjoyed commercial success, grossing over $28 million in worldwide earnings.
2005: Ashvin Kumar’s 2004 short film Little Terrorist (2004) was nominated for Best Short Subject (Live Action) at the 77th Academy Awards. The film follows the story of a young Pakistani boy who accidentally crosses the border into India and is mistaken for a terrorist. Though it lost the Oscar, Little Terrorist won several awards at international film festivals, including the Best Short Film Award at the Montreal World Film Festival and the Best Short Film Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
2009: At the 81st Academy Awards, AR Rahman won two Oscars for Danny Boyel’s 2008 drama Slumdog Millionaire — Best Original Score and Best Original Song, which he shared with legendary lyricist Gulzar, for Jai Ho. Indian sound designer Resul Pookutty, along with his English counterparts Richard Pryke and Ian Tapp, won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for Slumdog Millionaire.
2011: Rahman received two more nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for If I Rise, for Doyle’s biographical survival drama film 127 Hours but lost in both categories.
2013: Pi’s Lullaby, composed by Canadian Mychael Danna with lyrics by Indian Carnatic vocalist Bombay Jayashri Ramnath, for Ang Lee’s Life of Pie (2012) was nominated for Best Original Song at the 85th Academy Awards but did not win.
2022: Filmmakers Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas were nominated for their 2021 documentary film Writing with Fire for Best Documentary Feature at the 94th Academy Awards. Writing with Fire documents the story of journalists running the Dalit women-led newspaper Khabar Lahariya and race their shift from 14 years of print to digital journalism using smartphones.
2023: Shaunak Sen and Aman Mann’s All That Breathes (2022) is nominated for Best Documentary Feature this year while Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga’s Elephant Whisperers (2022) has been nominated for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Indian composer MM Keeravani and Telugu lyricist Chandrabose are also nominated for Best Original Song for Naatu Naatu, from SS Rajamouli’s epic action drama RRR.
About the film “RRR”
RRR is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language epic action drama film directed by S. S. Rajamouli, who co-wrote the film with V. Vijayendra Prasad. It was produced by D. V. V. Danayya of DVV Entertainment. The film stars N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, Shriya Saran, Samuthirakani, Ray Stevenson, Alison Doody, and Olivia Morris. It centers around fictional versions of two Indian revolutionaries, Alluri Sitarama Raju (Charan) and Komaram Bheem (Rama Rao), their friendship and their fight against the British Raj.
The film was announced in March 2018. Principal photography of the film began in November 2018 in Hyderabad and continued until August 2021, owing to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was filmed extensively across India, with a few sequences filmed in Ukraine and Bulgaria. The film’s soundtrack and background score were composed by M. M. Keeravani, with cinematography by K. K. Senthil Kumar and editing by A. Sreekar Prasad. Sabu Cyril is the film’s production designer whilst V. Srinivas Mohan supervised the visual effects.
Made on a budget of ₹550 crore (US$72 million), RRR is the most expensive Indian film to date. The film was initially scheduled for theatrical release on 30 July 2020, which was postponed multiple times due to production delays and the COVID pandemic. RRR was released theatrically on 25 March 2022. With ₹240 crore (US$30 million) worldwide on its first day,
RRR recorded the highest opening-day earned by an Indian film. It emerged as the highest-grossing film in its home market of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, grossing over ₹415 crore (US$52 million).The film grossed ₹1,200 crore (US$150 million) – ₹1,258 crore (US$160 million) worldwide, setting several box office records for an Indian film, including the third highest-grossing Indian film and second highest-grossing Telugu film worldwide.
“RRR” will be getting a part two. Director S.S. Rajamouli confirmed during a screening in Chicago that a sequel to his blockbuster period action film is in the works. “My father is the story writer for all my films,” Rajamouli said.
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