A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.
- Released: 2022-03-24
- Runtime: 187 minutes
- Genre: Action, Drama, War
- Stars: N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, Olivia Morris, Alison Doody, Ray Stevenson, R. Bhakti Klein, Samuthirakani, Shriya Saran, Edward Sonnenblick, Prakash Raj, Posani Krishna Murali, Rahul Ramakrishna, Ali Basha, Nithin Sathya, Daniel O'Kane, Spandan Chaturvedi, Chatrapathi Sekhar, Makrand Deshpande, Rajiv Kanakala, Mark Bennington, Gaurav Pareek, Kirron Arya, Ahmareen Anjum, Twinkle Sharma, Alexx O'Nell, Rana Daggubati, S. S. Rajamouli, Varun Buddhadev
- Director: S. S. Rajamouli
Comments
- SnoopyStyle - 29 May 2024
big Indian epic
In colonial India, the Governor is on a hunting trip and his wife buys a little girl. The villagers thought that the mother was being paid for her singing. The tribe's protector Komaram Bheem sets off on an unrelenting quest to retrieve the girl. The Governor orders his capture although they have little information on the mysterious rescuer. Skilled ambitious colonial police officer Alluri Sitarama Raju intends to infiltrate the revolutionaries and capture him for an important promotion.
I don't do a lot of Bollywood. I do have an issue with musicals being injected into every genre of film. Some fit better than others. For this movie, I feel that it elongates a movie that is already rather lengthy. I do really like the two main characters. I expected a Braveheart-like story. Raju's backstory turns out to be very different than expected which leads to a lengthy final act. As for the action, it is big. It is broad. It has a lot of Zack Snyder slow-motion flair, for good and for ill. I do appreciate this as a nationalistic crowd-pleaser modern epic for India. The length does get to me at certain points. - pvyczyn - 3 February 2024
Blockbuster Masterpiece... Wow!
It may be 3 hrs long but it was 3 hrs not wasted. Well, done! It does make our American movies suck after watching this one. I also love that it wasn't a gory movie. Yes, it has violence but it really had a story to tell. It's also romance, masculinity, military might vs towns people/ villages, family, just a wholesale and a unification communities. It has its ugliness of cruelty. But the human or focus in strength and conviction is very, powerful. It also had the best theatrical and amusing scenes including the fight scenes that just keeps you watching. What's next! I just love it is like a folk lore come true type story. The Real Gods! The real heroes! Saving the day! The music and dancing.- and the ending! Excellent performances! I can't say enuf about this movie but to me it's a 10! It has just about everything in a movie and the special moments and wonderful acting. Makes this 3 hour movie worth a watch! It will be a memorable movie!!
Rest in glory Ray Stevenson. You were one of my favorite actors to watch.
I kept saying throughout this movie. Wow! How can you beat that! Lol. And loved the "Love at first sight."
My other thoughts are as I was watching. You didn't have to be sexual by undressing women and just no real gory scenes from the violence. And it's true to that era.
At the beginning. You are just dumbfounded by the courage one man does for his cause. It's just CRAZINESS!! - DrTuvok - 8 December 2023
'The Sun Never Sets on the English Empire'
This quote appears ironically at the end of RRR, and it seems a bit off. (Wouldn't 'British Empire' be more appropriate?) Throughout the film the cartoonishly exaggerated Brits speak in a stilted way that adds greatly to the comic effect in this crazy, borderline absurdist experience.
Obviously writer/director SS Rajamouli can't compete with the $200+ million blimps regularly puked out from Hollywood, at least in terms of effects and cinematography. Much of the environments look flat and sterile with obvious CGI supplements and bright, TV-show-style lighting. It's only when the storytelling and goofy exaggeration come into play that these downsides can be overlooked, and so one must enter the film with an open mind for it to work. The storytelling is the director's sharpest skill; I always thought Indian films existed in their own cultural world, with no intention of appealing to Western audiences, explaining why they seem to gain little recognition internationally. RRR is still an Indian movie through and through, especially with the musical sequences, but Rajamouli has concocted a highly dramatic, visual, almost mythic story involving friendship, betrayal, plot reversals, warfare, etc, which can really appeal to anyone regardless of nationality. He seems to be taking inspiration from Mel Gibson's directorial efforts in this regard; and indeed he seems to have embarked on a Gibson binge before directing. (There's a flogging scene that manages to evoke both the Passion and the Braveheart execution, while a later gag with a falling tree references Apocalypto).
The end result is something that actually benefits from being produced outside Hollywood. It's refreshingly, impossibly free of the dull speechifying that has recently dominated Western filmmaking, unless one wants to count those broad anti-imperialist strokes. And even these lack the self-loathing baggage that a modern Western writer/director would bring. Its agenda exists somewhere else entirely. The ending musical scene seems like outright propaganda though I have no clue what it's supposed to be saying.
'The Sun never sets on the English Empire'. The line could almost be a meta-ironic commentary: maybe it refers to the domination of the English language in world film since the sound era, a power which just might be collapsing. - cheetiralasivateja - 7 January 2023
RRR GREAT MOVIE
This was an incredible film. I never heard of this film until Netflix brought it up. I saw clips of the movie and decided it looked pretty good and watched it. I am glad I did, the dancing scene at the party was incredible. Arguably the scene was the best scene in the film. But also the first scene where Ram Charan takes on a mob of people was pretty awesome to watch as well. Overall this is definitely one of the best films of the year combining action, comedy, romance, dancing and great storytelling. Must watch along with family and friends. Good Chogrophy and dance, background music. Hero acting is super. - saliann-903-861079 - 31 December 2022
Superhuman storytelling
Love. Romance. Revolution. Colonialism. Racism. Tyranny. Wickedness. Resilience. Brutality. Loyalty. Strategy. A sense of entitlement that is literally sickening. Cowardice. The long con, and a brilliant (advanced cardio efficiency required) dance challenge.
The film has it all.
It reminded me of biblical stories and The Terminator: times two. With singing and dancing to boot. Both leading men are exemplary. There is no filler. Minor characters are incredibly strong. Some of the best computer graphics I've ever seen in a three + hours long, and layered beyond belief, rollercoaster of Superhuman storytelling. - wellingtonalves-76912 - 22 December 2022
It's in Top 10 of 2022
This is what I want in an action movie, a great visual WITH a great story. Both MUST to walk together to be good. It's not a coincidence there are so many mentions about Marvel after RRR and Everything Everywhere all at Once success. None visual effect made in computers is stronger than excellent stories.
Congratulations for all people involved in this project and I hope it is recognized with (more) prizes.
RRR 2? I would be very happy to watch it in the theaters.
I'm telling my friends and posting in my social medias to everyone see this incredible movie full of quality, fans and expectations. - viveck_thakur - 3 December 2022
Can't be right.
How can so many people misread one movie so badly or am I missing something? If this movies receive so much appreciation India should have had multiple Academy wins but that is not the case for two reasons. One, Indian movies are acquired taste and two 80% of Indian movies are not worth it anything, let alone international recognition, same like everywhere else. But the two factors combined really puts largest movie producing country in the world behind all the other countries.
Coming back to RRR, everything in this movie is way over the top and two protagonist are mightier than superheroes. Even Captain America will give in if barely given food for two weeks but our hero barely loses a muscle and he is not just hungry but wounded as well. Other protagonist doesn't even squeeze his eyebrows when whipped by barbed whip and doesn't flinch releasing wild animals in a party when there can be women and children present. The emotions are so basic and solution so convenient. Most Englishmen seen in the movie do not have a shred of decency and are de facto villains. Movie that is so colorful all the characters are either black or white. Compared to villains in this movie, Thanos will be a saint and Avengers will be ashamed of themselves for killing him.
To sum it up, it is beyond me that this movie is getting so much recognition. This can't be happening. It can't be right. - avenguanzi - 29 October 2022
Best movie I've watched this year.
It's literally the best I've watched this year. No waste scene - everything was well-suggested in the middle and well-explained at the end. Before the movie started I was so sleepy yet when it's finished I was totally awake. Every minute of the 3h deserves appreciation. I will definitely watch it twice!!!
I like the background stories of the two guys - In Chinese we always call a country as "country" + "family" - and it was the thing here. When a country is in trouble, nobody can be sheltered - each household need to fight for the country.
As a country once invaded by others, so many things made me cry for many times when watching. At one moment I was expecting the whole Indian to attack the british gov together, holding the whole scene to the next stage but ended up with them two to get all things done. It's over Marvel in a very positive meaning - Marvel is human pretend to be superman, they're supermen in the shells of human beings.
Well done!!! And I regretted so much that I couldn't see the team in person last week in the theater!!! Wait for you guys in next master piece!! - ghythaljml - 11 October 2022
enjoyable and fun, nothing more, nothing less
The work may be very cheerful, and this is what we miss in the past years. I think everyone who will see it, you should throw your cinematic background as if you did not know anything about it. If you do not do that, you will not like the movie.
For example, some will see CGI as ugly and unforgivable, and others will see it as funny.
There is one very positive thing to talk about which is the way of displaying friendship that you can feel and empathize with.
But in general, you should never take the work seriously, and if you are, you have a real problem because we need this dose of enjoyment every once in a while, but not always because it lacks the real cinematic factors.
