It’s safe to say Steven Spielberg is an ‘RRR’ fan, reports Naman Ramachandran of ‘Variety’ after watching a Zoom conversation between the auteur and SS Rajamouli, the helmer of the film that has got the world dancing to the beat of ‘Naatu Naatu’.
Spielberg, whose latest, ‘The Fabelmans’, is in the race for seven Oscars, praised ‘RRR’ as “eye candy” and promised to return to India, where he last filmed ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ in 1976, for one of his upcoming projects.
The two men, who had a brief encounter at a Golden Globes cocktail party in Los Angeles in January, caught up over a Zoom call, according to ‘Variety’. The conversation was facilitated by Reliance Entertainment, a long-term partner of Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, which co-produced and released ‘The Fabelmans’ theatrically across India on February 10.
“I thought your movie was outstanding … it was just amazing,” Spielberg said. “I couldn’t believe my eyes — it was like eye candy … it was extraordinary to look at and experience.”
Rajamouli, according to ‘Variety, was elated with the praise, saying: “I can almost get up from the chair and do a dance — it means a lot to me.”
Spielberg also praised the performances of ‘RRR’ leads Ram Charan, NTR Jr, Alia Bhatt and antagonist Alison Doody, who played the British governor’s evil wife, and had acted in his film ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ (1989).
Master filmmaker Steven Spielberg praised SS Rajamouli’s ‘RRR’ as ‘eye candy’.
