In all honesty, I did not come into the screening for RRR with an open mind. Professor Zinman tried his best to hype the movie up to us in class but I already knew that there was no way that I would like, or more importantly even stay awake, during a three hour long film in a foreign language; so I brought a full water bottle of Diet Coke with me to help me try to get through it with caffeine. Little did I know how much of a banger this movie was going to be. Once again, Professor Zinman gave us an absolute gem and I loved all 187 minutes of it. I had a very skeptical idea of what the movie would be like, especially after the video we watched in class of the two men singing a song in another Indian film… wasn’t my cup of tea, and I didn’t think I could handle a whole screening of that. But every song and dance, war scene, bad CGI, everything was so beyond entertaining in RRR. I was smiling the whole time, and in hindsight, I would’ve been just fine without my caffeine. One of my favorite scenes was their big dance performance at the castle party, so for my searcher research I found a video of the director talking about the process of putting the Naatu Naatu scene together. It was so elaborate and exciting to watch, so I think it was super interesting to hear about the choreography and thoughts behind the creation of that specific scene. He talked about the use of costumes, like snapping the suspenders, and how even though it was a great upbeat song for the audience, that it was also a fight scene between the groups and how the choreographer used that concept. Just an incredibly interesting video about how much effort went into that moment and how many different aspects were intertwined to make it such a great movie.
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