RRR

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🎙️ EPISODE 662: 03.10.23 Part of 2022 Week! I'm not sure what I can add to the discourse around RRR, the massive and massively successful, meme-tastic 2022 epic, especially as someone who LIKED but didn't LOVE it. The Bollywood (or "Tollywood" — and I do my best to get into this discrepancy on the podcast) film is almost critic-proof to a degree. And sure that's a cop-out. The millions who've seen it, regardless of whether they enjoyed it or not, are perhaps outnumbered by those who simply know the dance sequence or CGI animal attack scene from YouTube. So, in this sense, its existence as a cultural 'thing' is at least as important (in terms of resonance) as its relevance/quality as a movie. And I'm not even judging unfairly on those terms, I don't believe; those are the best parts! And that's OK. If the story moved you on an emotional level in addition to the visceral WTF/LOL craziness, I think that's great. It never quite hit those marks for me, but I still had a blast for 3+ hours watching it.

CHRONOLOGICALLY
⫷ EPISODE 662A - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 662C ⫸

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RRR is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language epic action drama film directed by S. S. Rajamouli, who co-wrote the film with V. Vijayendra Prasad. It was produced by D. V. V. Danayya of DVV Entertainment. The film stars N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, Shriya Saran, Samuthirakani, Ray Stevenson, Alison Doody, and Olivia Morris. It centers around fictional versions of two Indian revolutionaries, Alluri Sitarama Raju (Charan) and Komaram Bheem (Rama Rao), their friendship and their fight against the British Raj. It was released on March 25, 2022.