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Today, The Elephant Whisperers won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short and RRR’s song ‘Naatu Naatu’ won for Best Original Song, giving Indian cinema one of its biggest moments of glory on a global stage.
RRR (Rise, Roar, Revolt) and The Elephant Whisperers are both Indian productions that tell stories that are deeply rooted in India and Indian culture
.The song ‘Naatu Naatu,’ starring Ram Charan and NTR Jr from the film ‘RRR,’ won Best Original Song at the 95th Academy Awards.
Leaving behind names like Lady Gaga, Diane Warren, and Rihanna, ‘Naatu Naatu’ made history after competing against songs like ‘Applause’ from ‘Tell It Like a Woman,’ ‘Hold My Hand’ from ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘Lift Me Up’ from ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,’ and ‘This Is a Life’ from ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once.
It was an Indian film’s second win, following The Elephant Whisperers, which won Best Documentary Short Subject. All That Breathes was also nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film, with Navalny winning the award.
‘Everything, Everywhere, All at Once,’ presented by Harrison Ford, was nominated for Best Picture alongside ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ ‘Avatar: The Way of Water,’ ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,’ ‘Elvis,’ ‘The Fabelmans,’ ‘Tar,’ aTop Gun: Maverick,’ aTriangle of Sadness,’ and ‘Women Talking.
The entire cast and crew were on stage to accept the golden statuette.
‘Everything, Everywhere at Once’ won Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Supporting Actress.
Evelyn Wang, a Chinese-American immigrant, discovers that she must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse while being audited by the IRS.
Michelle Yeoh plays Evelyn, and the film also stars Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong, and Jamie Lee Curtis in supporting roles.
This year, ‘Naatu Naatu’ has already won a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice Award.
‘RRR,’ starring NTR Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, and Shriya Saran, is a fictional account of two real-life Indian revolutionaries, Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem, and their struggle against the British Raj.
Set in the 1920s, the plot delves into an undocumented period in their lives when both revolutionaries chose to remain anonymous before fighting for their country.
