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
- Sees All - 8 January 2023
Stupid, but very entertaining
What can I say about RRR? On one level, it's preposterous, ridiculous, and just plain stupid. However, it is also very entertaining. The near-capacity audience that I saw it with laughed all the way through it. It's an Indian movie and has most of the elements that make movies big hits in India: songs and dances (often popping up in the strangest situations), lots of martial arts scenes, violence and bloodshed attached to basically simplistic stories with innocent good guys and truly evil bad guys. Since the story takes place during the British Raj, it's the British who are the villains and the poor Indian villagers who are the victims. The story starts when a group of British aristocrats decide to take a little native girl who sings prettily away from her village and bring her to live in their household to entertain their guests. Her family does not want her to leave. The British throw a few coins at them and take the child anyway, (knocking the mother in the head during the process). The villagers are determined to get the girl back; the British are determined to show these "brown trash" who's boss. There are two attractive young men fighting on opposite sides in this struggle. They don't know that they are on opposite sides and swear fast friendship. You can only imagine the havoc that is wreaked when the truth is revealed to them, as both of them have superhuman strength. Their fights are elaborate and spectacular, no doubt inspired by the battles between Rama and the demons in THE RAMAYANA. Out of bullets? Just pick up your motorcycle and beat your opponent to death with it. The two guys are also great dancers (thanks to the aid of CGI). It all ends happily despite all the carnage. It's fun, but it's also long-more than 3 hours with an intermission. This film was awarded the New York Film Critics Award for Best Director. My question is: where does film direction end, and computer programming begin? The whole film looks like a violent video game. The good guys are pure of heart and look it. The bad Brits are an unattractive lot (fat and hairy for the most part); the head villainess looks remarkably like Jocelyn Wildenstein! RRR is entertaining, but I felt a little guilty about spending more than three hours viewing it. Would I recommend it? Only with an audience to laugh along with you.
