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S. S. Rajamouli's RRR made wonders and created new records along with winning the 'Best Original Song' accolade at the 95th Academy Awards. Post the big win, the epic action drama film has been in the headlines over the past few days, with rumors on social media claiming that the team spent a huge sum of money on the Oscar campaign. During an exclusive interview with National Award-winning film critic Baradwaj Rangan, the Editor-in-Chief of Galatta Plus, S. S. Rajamouli's son S. S. Karthikeya, who was the line producer on RRR, addressed the rumors, while explaining the process of their entire campaign. 

Speaking about the rumors that the RRR team had paid for the tickets for those attending the 95th Academy Awards, S. S. Karthikeya said, "Jr NTR, Ram Charan, Prem Rakshit master, Rahul Sipliganj and Kala Bhairava were invitees. They were officially invited (by the Oscar committee)." Stating that composer M. M. Keeravani and lyricist Chandrabose already got their invited as they were nominees for the 'Best Original Song' award, he said, "it's the same for everyone and whoever is performing or they feel will be nice to have, the Academy decides and invite them via an official invitation." 

S.S. Karthikeya further explained, "Other than those who are in the nomination or are invited by the committee, one needs to purchase the tickets for the Oscars. The nominees have to send out an official e-mail saying, 'I want to bring along my family, my director or anybody, and there are different classes for the tickets. What we bought for our families, we did buy, but not the prices that we're seeing outside. What we paid was about $50 or $100 on the lower level and we got another four tickets for our family as well, which is completely on top and that was about $750 dollars." 

Opening up furthermore about the ticketing process, S. S. Karthikeya said, "MM Keeravaani and Chandrabose, both of them are nominees and saying they need these many tickets and we also give them the (information) who are we asking for. So, we said, SS Rajamouli and his wife, Karthikeya the line producer and his wife, and so on. This is the process and they see who all are there and they give out the tickets, share a link and we go to that link, make the payment and it's done. It's all official." 

Regarding the perception of spending a lot of money for RRR's Oscar campaign, he added, "I don't know why there is such a rumor. But, the film became so huge and a phenomenon. The fans started liking it and made it so big. And, when you say campaign, it's like marketing a film. Like, how you market your film before its release. You have a publicity budget where you strategise your plan and see where and how to spend. Buying an Oscar is a joke. It's a 95-year-old institution and they have process for that. You can't buy the audiences' love. You can't buy what Steven Spielberg and James Cameron said about the movie. When they spoke about the movie, it became a phenomenon. It's how you see it."

Watch S. S. Karthikeya in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan below: 

S. S. Rajamouli's RRR starring Ram Charan and Jr. NTR continues to be the talk of the town after a successful outing at the 95th Academy Awards. With 'Naatu Naatu' in the epic action drama film winning the 'Best Original Song' at Oscars 2023 and composer M. M. Keeravani and lyricist Chandrabose bringing home the coveted golden statue, filmmaker Rajamouli's son S. S. Karthikeya recently took part in a heart-to-heart conversation with National Award-winning film critic Baradwaj Rangan, the Editor-in-Chief of Galatta Plus, and spoke about RRR's journey to the Oscars. 

Speaking about how the idea for RRR for Oscars began, S. S. Karthikeya said, "The team decided to go to the Oscars and try to take that route when the fans told us to. It was their dream more than ours to begin with. So, RRR had its traditional release exactly one year ago in the U.S. and it was done. It had a great successful run. And then, an organic Western love started coming in for RRR where Americans began watching the film. Once that started, Josh Hurtado, who's been an Indian cinema lover for the past 10 years, he's always in touch with us and he said, 'there's something happening', and then we all got on call and thought about how to capitalize. Dylan then came into the picture, who's from Variance Films, the distributor in the US. Then, he came into the picture and we just wanted to do a re-release of RRR and this was sometime around June 2022 because there is some buzz among the Westerners and the Americans. They're liking the film and (we thought) let's give them a more theatrical experience. The film was going to come out on Netflix soon, but this is a theatrical movie. That was the thought." 

S. S. Karthikeya further explained, "We didn't want to go big. Generally, overseas, we release a movie in more than a thousand screens. But, we released the movie targeting these American audience in niche theatres. These are not the regular movie theatres. There are a few theatres in the U.S. like the Draft House Cinema where there's a niche audience. There's one in Chicago and one in New York. Josh and the team told us about this. When a movie comes in this theatre, people (think) there's something special about this one. So, we started with 60 screens and we said we'll release it for one day. One Friday. That was the aim. So, we released the movie on June 1 and the movie was already on Netflix five days before on May 25. We started off with one day and it went on for a month. So, that release and the screens were going up, and Americans and a majority of non-Indians who came loved the film. So, they started this hashtag and they started trending saying #RRRForOscars. We thought RRR was done in terms of a great run. We thought there was something and we released the film again. We wanted to push it and now they're saying Oscars? It's a dream for anybody. Oscars is a far shot when you think about it, but we thought, 'why not?' and that's how it occured to us and we then started off."

Watch S. S. Karthikeya in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan below: 

The Telugu romantic action film RX 100 was one of the biggest hits in the industry following some good reviews from the critics and the audience as well. RX 100 was widely praised for its treatment and the twist towards the climax. The film is written and directed by Ajay Bhupathi and stars Kartikeya Gummakonda and Payal Rajput in the lead roles. Rao Ramesh, Ramki, Mahesh and Giridhar were seen in important roles.
 
Shiva (Karthikeya), a cultured heart-throb eventually meets Indu (Payal Rajput) who is the daughter of a local politician. Love blossoms between the couple resulting in an intimate relationship. The complications emerge between the lead pair resulting in separation through a very shocking twist.

The album composed by Chaitan Bharadwaj played a pivotal role in the success of the film as well. And now, following the recent trend of releasing a cover version of popular tracks, a new video of the song Pillaa Raa has been released online. The song Pillaa Raa was rendered by Spoorthi Jithender. Here is the video,

Pillaa Raa Song Cover 2020 | RX100 Video Songs | Karthikeya | Payal Rajput | Mehaboob | Mango Music

Telugu actor Karthikeya has become a notable name in Tollywood and his recent entertainer film 90 ML released last month and the movie received decent response from the fans. Directed by Shekar Reddy Yarra, 90 ML had Neha Solanki as the lady lead with stars like Ravikishan, Rao Ramesh, Ali, Posani Krishna Murali, Ajay, Kalakeya Prabhakar in important roles and Sathya Prakash, Pragathi, Praveen, Adhurs Raghu, Nellore Sudharshan playing supporting roles. The film bankrolled by Ajay Kumar Gummakonda under the Kartikeya Creative Works banner has cinematography by J Yuvaraj and editing is done by SR Sekhar. Following the release, the makers have been releasing the video songs from the movie. The peppy track named Use Chesko is one of the popular numbers from the album of 90 ML and the team has now released the video of the song. Watch the full video of the song Use Chesko from 90 ML in the link below,

Song Details:
Song: Use Chesko
Singers: Sahithi, Saicharan
Lyrics: Chandrabose
Music: Anup Rubens

90ML Telugu Movie Songs | Use Chesko Video Song With Lyrics | Karthikeya | Anup Rubens | Mango Music