‘Naatu Naatu’ from ‘RRR’ bags Golden Globe for best original song

M.M. Keeravani poses in the press room with the award for best original song, motion picture for “Naatu Naatu” from “RRR” at the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards
| Photo Credit: Chris Pizzello

SS Rajamouli’s RRR struck gold at the 2023 Golden Globe Awards by winning the trophy for the best original song–motion picture for its hit track “Naatu Naatu”.

The blockbuster Telugu movie is also nominated under the ‘best picture-non English’ category at the ceremony. The Telugu track “Naatu Naatu ” is composed by veteran music director MM Keeravaani and penned by Kala Bhairava and Rahul Sipligunj.

Keeravani was there to collect the trophy.

Other nominees in the segment were Taylor Swift’s “Carolina” ( Where The Crawdads Sing), “Ciao Papa” ( Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick, a collaboration between Lady Gaga, BloodPop and Benjamin Rice, and “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Goransson.

RRR follows a pre-Independence fictional story woven around two real-life Indian revolutionaries – Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem – in the 1920s. The film stars Ram Charan, Jr NTR, Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn in key roles.

Released theatrically last March, RRR reportedly made over Rs 1,200 crore at the global box office. The lavishly mounted period epic is the first Indian film in over two decades to be nominated for the awards.

In the ‘best picture–non-English segment’, RRR will face off with the Korean romantic mystery film Decision To Leave, German anti-war drama All Quiet on the Western Front, Argentine historical drama Argentina, 1985, and French-Dutch coming-of-age drama Close.