Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards: RRR’s dream run at international stage continues. In the latest, it beat Tom Cruise’s Top Gun Maverick and bagged four trophies at Friday night’s Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards. It collected Best Action Film, Best International Feature, Best Original song and Best Stunts trophies for the action epic starring Ram Charan and Jr NTR.
Director SS Rajamouli, in his acceptance speech after the Best Action Film win, said, “I think I need to go backstage and check…I think I’ll be starting growing wings already…with the second one! Thank you so much it means a lot! I can’t express in words how much it means…”
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He continued, “This is the ‘Best Action Film’ (award), we won the ‘Best Stunts’ (award), but probably the ‘Best Stunt’ (award) was for the best stunt choreographer…and…I really would have loved to have the stunt choreographers here to see this because I think that is the team that works so hard and puts their life on the line to entertain us. I think I’ll take this opportunity to ask all the major awards to make a special category for the stunt guys….stunt choreographers, they really, really deserve that! This is for all the stunt choreographers, not only in my country but across the world who really work hard to entertain us all.”
Dedicates award to fellow filmmakers
After winning the Best International Feature award, Rajamouli brought Ram Charan on stage with him. The actor promised to keep making good films and Rajamouli dedicated his award to all his fellow filmmakers in India.
Rajamouli thanked his entire team who put in 320 days of hard work to make this film. Rajamouli said, “A big thank you to all the members of the Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) who thought RRR had the best stunts. Thanks, a lot. I must first thank my choreographer who has put in lots of effort to execute all the stunts. Juji [stunt master] helped them with some of the climax action sequences. And, to all the other choreographers who worked really hard and came to India and understood our vision. They changed their working style to suit our working style and delivered what we had today.”
Most stunts by Jr NTR and Ram Charan
SS Rajamouli also revealed that the majority of the stunts were performed by his “wonderful actors” Jr NTR and Ram Charan. He added, “In the innumerable action shots in the whole film, there were hardly 2-3 shots where we used body doubles. The actors performed each and every stunt. They are wonderful guys. It is the combined effort of the whole team. I thank my whole team for this. We have put in 320 days of hard work to make this film, most of which were taken by the stunts. And, this recognition means alot not just to me and my film but to the Indian film industry. Hope, we have these wings to fly further.”
The video was shared by the official account of RRR on Twitter. The text attached to it read, “Here’s SS Rajamouli’s acceptance speech of #HCAcritics award for Best Stunts. Congratulations to our entire team.”
Quote-tweeting the post shared by HCA, the official account of RRR wrote, “Best action film goes to…”
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