PremiumGolden Globes 2023: 'RRR deserves to be in the best film category,' laments filmmaker Shekhar Kapur
The veteran filmmaker took to social media to assert that while RRR looks well on course to bag an Oscar nomination, the 'Non-English' category at the Golden Globes doesn't make much sense to him
Last Updated: 11.17 PM, Dec 12, 2022
S.S. Rajamouli's RRR has risen to unprecedented fame over the last eight months and by the looks of it, it still has legs to go farther. The film has been one of the main highlights of the ongoing awards season and with two credible Golden Globes nominations to its name already, RRR looks like a strong contender in the Oscars 2023 race.
RRR has been nominated for the Best Picture (Non-English Language) and Best Original Song (Naatu Naatu) categories at the Golden Globes. The film is 6th Indian film to be nominated in the Best Picture - Foreign/non-English categories after V. Shantaram's Do Aankhen Barah Haath, Satyajit Ray's Apu Sansar (1961), Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982), Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay! (1989) and Monsoon Wedding (2002).
While many rejoiced at the news of RRR achieving the Golden Globes nominations, veteran filmmaker lamented that the film should have belonged to the Best Picture category and not be in the running for the sub-category of 'non-English'. He would first enunciate that RRR is well and truly part of the Oscars race and that the nominations only make the path clearer but in the same vein, also point out that the Golden Globe awards have redundantly stuck to the category of the Foreign/non-English when it comes to Best Picture.
"The path to the Oscars for RRR becomes clearer. But I still don’t get why the Golden Globes hold on to a category called ‘Best film in a non English language ?? RRR deserves to be in the best film category. Period," wrote the Mr. India filmmaker.
Prior to these nominations, S.S. Rajamouli was adjudged the Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle with RRR winning the award for Best International Film at the Saturn Awards. The Atlanta Film Critics Circle placed the film in the 5th place in the list of Top 10 films of 2022 while the National Board of Review ranked it 8th below Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Fabelmans, and others.