WATCH PARTY: RRR (2022) directed by S.S. Rajamouli @ Richard Tucker Library

I haven't watched this yet, but it's supposed to be absolutely insane and a great spectacle. And a billion Indian people can't be wrong.

RUNTIME: 187 minutes

SYNOPSIS (h/t Lincoln Center): In the summer of 2022, Telugu-language cinema was thrust into the American pop-cultural limelight thanks to the unprecedented box office success of RRR, S.S. Rajamouli’s 1920-set action blockbuster, which charts an imaginary friendship between real-life anti-colonial revolutionaries Komaram Bheem (N.T. Rama Rao, Jr.), a leader of India’s marginalized Gond tribe, and A. Rama Raju (Ram Charan), an officer of the Indian Imperial Police with mysterious personal objectives. Described in Film Comment as “preposterously entertaining,” the film toggles between registers, alternating the good-humored buoyancy and warmth of a classic buddy comedy with the earnest emotional and metaphorical intensity of mythically inflected melodrama. Rajamouli expertly deploys these tonal dynamics in service of an extraordinary cinematic spectacle, which dazzles on the big screen thanks to its sweeping, inventively choreographed and masterfully edited action sequences—plus the showstopping dance number “Naatu Naatu,” for which composer M.M. Keeravani became the first Indian artist to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

BLURBS:
"The movie is such an irresistible and intoxicating celebration of cinematic excess that even after 187 minutes (including intermission or, as the title card announces, InteRRRval), you are left exhilarated, not exhausted." - Joe Leyden, Variety

**"**RRR is maximum cinema, the kind of in-your-face, colorful, fiery, loud, awe-inspiring experience you really can only get from the movies." - Nitish Pawa, Slate

"In a movie that also includes Bheem battling a tiger with his bare hands and an aerial rescue involving a motorcycle, 'Naatu Naatu' may be the most impressive action sequence." - Alison Herman, The Ringer