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When a young girl from a Gond tribe is kidnapped by British assholes to be a slave, the tribe's protector Bheem goes to Delhi in disguise to rescue her. There he befriends Rama Raju, an Indian police officer in the Indian Imperial Police (a tool of the British Raj), who has no idea that the fugitive he's searching for in a Javert-like manner is no other than his new best friend. They proceed to have the most epic bromance to ever bromance, or ever epic for that matter.
Bheem and Rama Raju are based on two actual historical Indian revolutionaries who fought British colonial rule. And when I say "actual historical," I mean that in the same sense that Hamilton and Inglourious Basterds are based on actual historical events. Only more so.
I don't want to spoil anything because this movie has plenty of good twists and is best enjoyed unspoiled. So I will just say that it involves revolution, dance-offs, secret identities, religious/mythical references, the greatest flogging scene in the history of cinema and possibly everything ever, a leopard getting thrown at a soldier (it's OK, it's CGI), and about ten of the greatest and craziest action sequences I've ever seen. You know the saying "It goes up to 11?" This entire movie goes up to 12. Like every scene goes up to 12. And yet it's enthralling rather than exhausting.
This batshit epic is by S. S. Rajamouli, who created one of my all-time favorite movies, Baahubali. (Two of my all-time favorite movies if you count parts 1 and 2 separately.) I saw each part twice in theatres and multiple times at home, in Telegu, Tamil, and Hindi. I am happy to report that RRR, though a different genre and tone, is also wonderful, epic, over the top but in a way that works, charming, bonkers, and, I am already sure, infinitely rewatchable.
Content notes: Violence, colonialism.
Spoilers are fine in comments. You don't need to rot13. Don't read the comments if you don't want to be spoiled.
RRR is available on Netflix.
Bheem and Rama Raju are based on two actual historical Indian revolutionaries who fought British colonial rule. And when I say "actual historical," I mean that in the same sense that Hamilton and Inglourious Basterds are based on actual historical events. Only more so.
I don't want to spoil anything because this movie has plenty of good twists and is best enjoyed unspoiled. So I will just say that it involves revolution, dance-offs, secret identities, religious/mythical references, the greatest flogging scene in the history of cinema and possibly everything ever, a leopard getting thrown at a soldier (it's OK, it's CGI), and about ten of the greatest and craziest action sequences I've ever seen. You know the saying "It goes up to 11?" This entire movie goes up to 12. Like every scene goes up to 12. And yet it's enthralling rather than exhausting.
This batshit epic is by S. S. Rajamouli, who created one of my all-time favorite movies, Baahubali. (Two of my all-time favorite movies if you count parts 1 and 2 separately.) I saw each part twice in theatres and multiple times at home, in Telegu, Tamil, and Hindi. I am happy to report that RRR, though a different genre and tone, is also wonderful, epic, over the top but in a way that works, charming, bonkers, and, I am already sure, infinitely rewatchable.
Content notes: Violence, colonialism.
Spoilers are fine in comments. You don't need to rot13. Don't read the comments if you don't want to be spoiled.
RRR is available on Netflix.
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