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But this is one of the most anticipated song categories that the Oscars I have in recent memory. Yeah. In terms of, and Oscar RRR is definitely the favorite. It's, I saw this morning, Hollywood, no, it was Variety. Variety had somebody who talked to four, God bless you, double portion on you, talked to four voting members who remained anonymous and on the ballot for song, what do you think they had? Not too good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It'd be a shock if it doesn't win. Yeah, it'd be a big shock. It would be, I'll be a raving lunatic. And guess who's here now? Junior interior. I wonder why. Yeah, here we go. Must have seen this song many, many, many, many, many times. I sometimes watch it on YouTube. Same. I've shown it to so many people. And watch the song again. I was worried that I wouldn't give you the notes and I myself will keep watching the song again. Napaatazulu, Napaatazulu, Napaatazulu, Naatu, Naatu, Naatu, Naatu, Naatu, De, De, Naatu, Naatu, Naatu, Naatu, Naatu, Naatu, Naatu, De, De, Naatu. Hello, this is Rajmauly. I'm the director of Telugu language Indian film, Ararath. That's right. I'm so happy. I like how you put Telugu language too. What's on the scene? What's on the song? Naatu, Naatu. The first thing that comes to me when we talk about Naatu, Naatu, is the location itself. It was shot in Kiev, actually, the Presidential Palace. This was actually supposed to happen in India, but because it was monsoon time then, we were trying to scout the locations and we found this. And I really loved it. And then they told me it's the Presidential Palace. I thought, oh, maybe then I have to look for another location. But they said, no, no, no, this is Ukraine. You can get the job done. And so thankful for the Ukrainian team. It was pretty. The size of the palace, the size of the palace. Right before the war, of course. Yes. It was the exact right size. You know what's so impressive about that? They go into slow mo and the live action behind them stays real time. The beautiful thing about the song that many tend not to notice are the background dancers. If you look here, the bunch here, all of them are not extras. All of them are dancers. And if you can see how the men are not comfortable with these two Indian guys taking their scene over, the girls are really, really enjoying the steps. You can see all of them are perfectly enacting the scene before their turn comes when they have to dance. I was really, really surprised that the level of professionalism, the dancers there in Ukraine had really loved working with them. It's a choreographer, Prem Rakshit. He has worked with me before. He has worked with Prem before. He has worked with Tarak before. He gave one of the most memorable numbers for both of them. He knows their style exactly what their body language is. He exactly knows what their body language is. Suspenders have never been used more wonderfully. He has a wonderful job because here both the actors have to dance together. Each of them have their own style, but he has to find out a style which will suit both of them as a dancing style which would be not complicated. Because I also wanted him to figure out steps which people would like to do for themselves. So it should be nice. It shouldn't be too difficult. It should suit the style of both the actors. And it should be fantastic by a number of instructions. Yeah, that's all. Make it fancy. That's all. You wouldn't believe it. More than 100 variations for this three, four signature. To not, to not, to not to for that line. I remember he sent me the video. It was going on and on and on and on. I had a difficult time picking up the best three, four variations for this style. So the first credit was in the next. I've had enough of this nonsense. You're too out. No, Jake. I've had enough of your bullies. Go. Yes. Go. It fills me with pure joy. This for me is the best in the entire song. Absolutely. The costume designer, Rama, who also happens to be my wife. She gave the costumes like a song because it was supposed to be a scene. She gave the costume like a scene. And when Prem saw the dress and he saw the suspenders, he said, can I use the suspenders? She said, OK, he composed a couple of steps. And he said, if the suspenders are too tight, they can't be doing it so easily. It has to be a little bit loose for the dance step. So it was Prem's idea to bring the suspenders in. And the funny thing is like they had the loose suspenders only for this particular. Oh, of course. Before and after it were tight suspenders. And just in the before shot, when Ginny, she pulls the suspenders and gives it and says, go, the suspenders are actually the tight suspenders. And they had a bince on their face. They were smiling until I said that. And the moment I said that, they were like, oh, I can give it. Even for them, because this was the most difficult step. Yeah, this is not easily replicable. Things on the top, the suspenders moving and sliding. Right foot also had to go to the side and come as there's a lot going on. So much of the choreographer. When I instructed him, I told him, yes, for the audience, this is a song. This is fun. They're dancing and everything. But for the story, it is actually a fight scene because it starts off with a on a bad note. And then West Side Story is coming and dancing them, humiliating them. But both of them are there on a purpose. Yeah, not really fist fight. Do a fist fight and blow their cover off. It moves into a kind of competition. You're seeing the song, you're seeing a dance, but effective in effect. You're getting the emotion of a fight. So that's the instruction that I gave, Prem. That's what I needed to see their body language, how they're standing, how they're confident, open. It looks like a fight. That's how brilliant Prem is. Always hire great cinematographer. I mean, choreographer with him. Initially, he shows me what kind of yeah, the frames are important in this. Yes, I don't meddle with the lighting or the tonality of the film. My production designer, Sabu, he had a lot of idea on how colonial India was. What the properties were, what the costume colors were. He had a lot of ideas. So he was really rushing through Q to find the right kinds of properties. And all this flower arrangements, Sabu was sitting there with the art director there. And he was perfectly telling this color, this color should come at the bottom. This color should come at the top. And he was a really film. It's such a collaborative art form. That's why we point out art direction, production design all the time. I don't look at that at all. My job is to see whether my actors are doing the step the correct way that I want to. Their expression is perfect or not. That's the only job I look at it. We are shooting in the presidential palace, like I said. And here is the parliament. Ukraine, I was so shocked. I asked my line producer there, is it OK to shoot a song in a full volume right by the side of the palace? Yeah, fine, no problem. Go ahead. Love your crime. The only thing is it will be in actual metallic in colour. In post, he made it like a lime plastered. One more point is all the background musicians who are holding the clarinets, the violins and all that stuff. They are also action musicians. I wanted them to be musicians because they hold the violin properly. Oh, imagine that. Properly and all that. I asked Anna, is it OK? Can I place it? Well done. Is it OK for them to just stand there and act, not actually create? OK, no problem. This is the step, which was like on TikTok or all the social media platforms where everyone was trying to do, whether it's friends, brothers, mother and daughter, husband and wife, everyone were doing the step and posting on the social media, which really, really went viral and helped the film gain the popularity a lot. I like that effect. I mean, it's not new. It has been used many times where the track goes forward and so the artists are always occupying the full frame, but the background really comes forward. Initially, we tried moving it around, but we are losing the essence of the step. So we use the smartest track forward and zoom back. This is where the nightmare started for the. A solid ground, we moved on to a place where it was dusty. I wanted the dust to fly. But costumes were made with such a delicate material. And we were making them do this. Then after that, to step in the dust with this dress and the dress were getting really, really dirty and spoiled. The costumers had to make. Oh, my three dresses every day. They had after the shoot, they had to go and clean them very delicately. It's not that you can put them in a washing machine and take them out. They had to be clean properly. So after a long God bless costumers. Yes, the costumers were taking the dresses. One of the one of the hardest working people on set again. Longest hours. I really like to go. Langley takes. I don't like to cut in between here. I had a long discussion with my editor on having this this group coming into a formation. The idea is like all the guys are with Jake and all the girls are with the team and I wanted this mixed crowd to separate into the girls coming behind Rahman beam and the boys coming behind Jake. It was clearly established in the in the in the top angle shot. For me, it would have been nice if this entire thing was in one single shot. So you can see all the girls coming over the next position. And you see from the next position, all the boys going here. And at the same time, we see Jake is moving this way and Rahman beam are moving towards this way. It was very well choreographed as it was said. The punch would be nice if we cut it into your four cuts. Well, sometimes even the director, you have to give in to your. DP director relationships. And the collaboration proved right. Yes, it did. That's a good director who trusts and I must have seen this song. Many, many, many, billion times, not just thousands. Even after the release, I sometimes watch it on YouTube. It must be so satisfying, especially since the world loves your song. Yeah, I watched the the background dancers. I become a fan of these guys. You can you can see they were they're really acting like pros. They are not just dancing, but they have to do the steps wrong sometimes. And they have to express that they are not doing it properly and collapse one by one. I like each and every dancer here. This guy, this guy, how they were performing. And you should also see the girls, how Jenny goes back and he pulls her again. Yeah, every one of them is involved. He falls down and they're tired, but still really, really enjoying it. This girl, it's a very beautiful frame by Cyndal. He got that dark, just girl in the foreground as the action is happening in the background. One of the inspirations for me is kind of frames is, you know, is a completely different thing in turn commandments. When the sea is parting, there is a shot of three ladies washing what is happening in front of them. And the arrangement is like, like, like a painting is not exactly like that. But a kind of inspiration is it's awesome. And look at the guy's expression when Jake falls down. These guys, absolutely perfect. Tara can turn up, they are the exceptional lead. Yes, they are good dancers. I always feel dance is not about how acrobatic you are, how perfectly you can achieve your step. There are two important things. One is that you should really, really enjoy your dance. Only then can audience really get the enjoyment out of your dance. And second thing is like, in every moment of the dance, you are conveying something to the audience, some kind of emotion. They really infused that energy, they're conveying that even though we are humiliated by you, we have this weapon of giving it back to you. Quite a subtle and difficult emotion to portray, but these two guys nailed it. So the Indians have won, actually the story is over, but we know that Entirama Rao and Ram Sharan are two top heroes, top heroes, and the fans would love to see them compete against each other in the dance, looking at each other like, okay, brother, then what about you and me? I love it so much. That wow expression of Jenny is the best. There are countless messages, memes, everything saying that the entire audience expression towards the song is exactly that. The song, it's climaxes. It's made, it does everything. Everyone in the unit were coming into the tent and like peeking in, looking in, can we say that again? Can we play this again? This was the shot that everyone really, really loved. So subtle, just a little look over. She's rooting for the actor at that point of time and he sees that Jenny is in love with actor and he loses. On purpose, because it's the greatest buddy film of all time. Being his innocent self, he doesn't get it. Right, he thinks he won. Right. He finishes it. For me, Natu Natu, one of the reasons why I think it is such a hit is not just because of the music, not just because of the dance because there's a beautiful story in itself. The entire story of RRR is within that 10 minutes of Natu Natu late scene and the complete song. No one in America or across the world really knows the meaning of the lyrics but it is the catchiness of the lyric, the way, the flows. I think that is the credit should be given to Chandra Bose, the lyricist. We had a blast shooting it. We had a blast enjoying the audiences having the blast. Thank you everyone for who was involved in Natu Natu. It's wonderful. Great piece Variety. I mean Vanity. Who did that, right? It was Vanity. No, Variety. It was Variety, sorry. It's Variety Fair. No, it's Vanity Fair. That was right. Yeah, Vanity Fair. Dyslexia. I just saw the Vienna and I was like, that's Variety. No, great piece by Vanity Fair. Wonderful. I've seen many of these in terms of like when they do directors and they break down. Oh, it's different. Yeah, just beautiful. But it's wonderful to see. It's the biggest Indian film in America ever. There's no film. Deservedly so. And that has ever been taken by America or the West in general as much as RRR. No. It's absolutely massive. It is a phenomenon. And the love is genuine. Yep. And I know a lot of Indians just don't understand why, but I just, I don't even understand why you'd be upset by that because they're like, oh, we have so many films like that one. I doubt that because we've seen a lot of films. And RRR is very unique. Yeah. It has some stuff that are in other films, but it's the entire film that is what is so amazing and so enjoyable. But the fact that a lot of people in America have never seen an Indian film before. No. And so why wouldn't you be excited by the fact that this is a lot of... Exactly. It's opening. Exactly. I don't understand. There should be nothing but celebration for it. We said when we saw the song, we said this at the time, and I will always believe this. Natu Natu is one of the greatest musical numbers in cinematic history, put that up against every musical number that has been legendary from the climax of an American in Paris to singing in the rain number to Moses supposes to make him laugh to anything that Fred did with Ginger Rogers, it's that memorable and it's that well put together at every single level. So if it doesn't win the Oscar, it will be criminal. Absolutely criminal. You can't wait for them to perform it as well. It's going to be absolutely amazing. Yeah, I predict they're going to burn the house down. I predict nothing else that night is going to come close to the type of explosive energy and is going to cause that place to turn into a total riot than the performance of that song. I agree. Anyways, let us know if you're excited. We are very excited to watch this win the Oscar on Sunday. So let us know down below.