SS Rajamouli’s Son Karthikeya On Reports RRR “Bought” Their Oscar: “Big Joke”

New Delhi:

RRR track Naatu Naatu created historical past what with its superb Oscar win and a blockbuster efficiency at this 12 months’s Academy Awards. A couple of weeks after its large Oscar win, RRR is within the headlines as soon as once more. This time for a unique motive. There are rumours doing the rounds that the makers spent intensive amount of cash on the movie’s Oscar marketing campaign. In a latest interview with Galatta Plus, RRR director SS Rajamouli’s son SS Karthikeya addressed all of the rumours. There had been additionally rumours that the staff paid for lead actors Jr NTR, Ram Charan’s tickets for the Academy Awards (extra on that later). Addressing the marketing campaign funds rumours, SS Karthikeya instructed Galatta Plus, “I do not know why there’s a rumor that RRR staff has spent some huge cash for the Oscar marketing campaign. We undoubtedly wished to marketing campaign for the Oscars because the viewers preferred the movie. We spent in keeping with the publicity funds. We did every little thing in keeping with the plan.”

SS Karthikeya added, “It is an enormous joke that we will purchase an Oscar if we give cash. With a 95-year-long historical past, it’s an establishment. Everything there’s accomplished in keeping with a course of. I can solely say one factor – can we purchase the love of the followers? We cannot purchase the phrases of Steven Spielberg and James Cameron concerning the movie, can we? The followers have given us quite a lot of publicity.”

Addressing the rumours that the RRR staff sponsored the tickets for the attendees, SS Karthikeya mentioned, “Jr NTR, Ram Charan, Prem Rakshit, Rahul Sipliganj and Kala Bhairava had been invited by the Oscar committee.” He defined that Naatu Naatu composer MM Keeravaani and lyrist Chandrabose already obtained invitations as they had been nominated (they went on to win the Oscar).

“Other than those that are within the nomination or referred to as by the committee, one has to purchase the Oscar tickets. For this, the nominees ought to ship an e-mail to the Oscar committee. Also, there are various kinds of courses. Keeravaani e-mailed Oscar for our household and after checking every little thing, they replied to the mail and despatched a hyperlink. So, we purchased every ticket for 1500 {dollars}. That is the decrease degree. We spent one other 750 {dollars} for 4 folks to sit down on the highest and watch. We have purchased the tickets. All this has been accomplished formally,” SS Karthikeya defined.

Naatu Naatu from RRR defeated the likes of Applause from Tell It Like A Woman, Hold My Hand from the movie Top Gun: Maverick, Lift me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and This Is Life from Everything Everywhere All At Once to win the Best Original Song Oscar.