SS Rajamouli meets James Cameron; reveals Avatar filmmaker watched RRR twice: ‘I am on top of the world’

Filmmaker SS Rajamouli’s RRR is staying in the headlines and for all the right reasons. Following the Golden Globes 2023 win, RRR has bagged the Best Film in Foreign Language Award at the Critics Choice Awards 2023. At the awards night, Rajamouli met Avatar: The Way Of Water filmmaker James Cameron who recommended RRR to his wife too.

Director S. S. Rajamouli shared photos from their conversation and captioned it, “The great James Cameron watched RRR.. He liked it so much that he recommended to his wife Suzy and watched it again with her. Sir I still cannot believe you spent a whole 10 minutes with us analyzing our movie. As you said I AM ON TOP OF THE WORLD… Thank you both.”

M.M. Keeravani, who accepted the Best Song award for ‘Naatu Naatu‘ at Critics Choice, also met the filmmaker and shared a photo with a caption that read, “The great James Cameron has watched RRR twice and gave feedback on my score !!! Ocean full of excitement.”

At the ceremony, Rajamouli accepted the Best Foreign Language Film award and thanked “the women in my life” including his mother. “She thought school education was overrated and she encouraged me to read comics and storybooks, and she encouraged my creativity,” said Rajamouli. He thanked his wife, costume designer Rama Rajamouli. He said, “More than that, she’s the designer of my life.”

‘Naatu Naatu’ won the Best Song. M.M. Keeravani accepted the award. Meanwhile, it already has Oscars 2023 buzz as the film was submitted for 15 categories. RRR’s ‘Naatu Naatu’ has been shortlisted for Best Original Song for Academy Awards 2023. The team of RRR is in Los Angeles for the Oscars campaign. They recently hosted a special screening for the members of the Academy.