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'Larger than life': Indian film-maker Rajamouli shoots for Oscar fame
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In this picture taken on February 22, 2023 Indian film director S.S. Rajamouli gestures during an interview with AFP at the RRR office on the outskirts of Hyderabad. (AFP/Noah Seelam)
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ndian director S.S. Rajamouli's films are all-singing, all-dancing spectacles -- and he is now a favourite to secure the first ever Oscar for an all-Indian film.
His three-hour extravaganza RRR is a fictionalised story of two colonial-era revolutionaries, filled with large-scale, visual effects-laden action sequences and musical numbers.
It has smashed box offices in India, wowed audiences from the United States to Japan, and is a front runner for the Best Original Song award at next month's Oscars, having already beaten out Taylor Swift and Rihanna for the same prize at the Golden Globes.
"When I'm going to a movie, I would like to see larger-than-life characters, larger-than-life situations, larger-than-life drama," Rajamouli told AFP.
"And that's what I like to make," he said at his office in the southern city of Hyderabad.
"Nothing holds the heroes back in delivering their action sequences."
A word-of-mouth hit that has seen moviegoers dancing in cinema aisles, Telugu-language RRR has become one of the highest-grossing Indian movies ever.
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