Watch : SS Rajamouli’s speech at NYFCC wins hearts, gets standing ovation from the audience

SS Rajamouli has truly promoted Indian cinema to the international audience and critics with his magnum opus, RRR. The iconic director has now been conferred with the prestigious Best Director award at the New York Film Critic Circle Award.

Rajamouli arrived at the award function with wife Rama Rajamouli in traditional attire. The 49 year old director wore a Kurta Pajama with a cream colored shawl while his wife was spotted in a plain dark blue saaree.



The RRR director was greeted with massive cheer and standing ovation from the award function attendees when his name was announced as the winner for the Best Director award.

The filmmaker reached the podium walking though cheers and applause and said in his heart winning speech, “Receiving this award from you is a great honour. I really appreciate it. You have honoured my whole cast and crew and have made a lot of people take notice of a small film from the south of India. Many people don’t know that such a field exists but because of this, now I am sure many people will look at it.”

He further said that RRR is creating same impact in the west as it did in India, he said, “With RRR, I saw the same kind of reception in the West. They were reacting the same way that Indians did.”



He further gave reference of his childhood experience of watching Terminator 2 and how the movie impacted the audience at the theatre, he said, “The look on the audience’s faces… It was pure joy, awe. We could look at their faces and know what they were thinking. Like ‘what in the hell did we just witness!’ This is exactly what I want from my audience… pure joy of watching the film in the theatre.”

RRR has got a massive fan following in the US, the people are still going to the theatres in numbers to watch the highly talked about movie in their country. From the action sequences to the VFX, RRR has been able to able to connect with the audience greatly.

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