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'Naatu Naatu's Oscar win would lift India up globally: AR Rahman

Just a day left until the Oscars are going to be announced and wh... Read More
Just a day left until the Oscars are going to be announced and while there are a lot of Indians who have pinned their hopes on RRR's power-packed song 'Naatu Naatu' to win the honour, music maestro AR Rahman, who also has won an Academy Award for his brilliant composition in 'Slumdog Millionaire', also hopes for the same.

AR Rahman, while speaking to ANI, expressed that Naatu Naatu's Oscar win would eventually lift India up globally.

He said, "I want Naatu Naatu to win, I wanted them to win the Grammy also because any award for any of us is going to lift India up...and the zone, the concentration of our culture will become higher."

The magnum opus energy-packed track 'Naatu Naatu' made it to the Oscar nominations this year in the 'Original Song' category.

This lyrical composition of 'Naatu Naatu' by MM Keeravani, high energy rendition by singers Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava, unique choreography by Prem Rakshith, and lyrics by Chandrabose are all the elements that make this 'RRR' mass anthem a perfect dance craze.

The song is competing against 'Applause' from the film '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'.

Not just 'Naatu Naatu', two Indian documentaries also made it to the nominations this year - Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes' and Kartiki Gonsalves' 'The Elephant Whisperers'.

'All That Breathes' has been nominated in the 'Documentary Feature Film' category against 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed', 'Fire Of Love,' 'A House made of Splinters,' and 'Navalny'.

The film revolves around the lives of siblings Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad, who work out of their derelict basement in Delhi's Wazirabad, to rescue and treat injured birds, especially the black kites.

'The Elephant Whisperers' has been nominated in the 'Documentary Short Film Category' against 'Haul Out,' 'How Do You Measure A Year?' 'The Martha Mitchell Effect,' and 'Stranger At The Gate'.

The film's plot revolves around a family who adopts two orphan baby elephants in Tamil Nadu's Mudumalai Tiger Reserve.

The Oscars are going to be held on March 13 this year.

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Ten Telugu songs that went International

As we all know and have always been saying that art and artists have no language boundaries and talent is always universal. The below songs will prove that once again saying that music is also universal and it is only the sense of rhythm that makes people connect with it and its people irrespective of their race, region and culture. Since the current trend is about the Telugu song ‘Naatu Naatu’ going viral and it is nominated for the Oscars under the ‘Best Original song’ category at the 95th Academy Awards, let us have a look at a few more Telugu songs that made Foreign audiences go crazy in the past...!

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Tollywood music director Devisri Prasad who is popular for funky and peppy dance numbers in Indian cinema has composed this music for Allu Arjun starrer and Sukumar directorial 'Pushpa' and if the film is a Pan-India blockbuster hit, its music is Pan-world superhit. If don’t believe me check this…!

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Link to its original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txHO7PLGE3o

Link to its Intl fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8jcSwlh7bo

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The film was directed by Purijaganath starring JrNTR in dual roles and Rakshita as the lady lead. The film has its music composed by

Chakri and the song crooned by himself is a blockbuster hit at the time of its release. In later times it has become popular as it reached abroad and this is how foreigners reacted to the JrNTR's song..!

Link to the Original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNS77i3Mke8

Link to Japanese fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9QcTtcCsKU

Image courtesy: Instagram

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Everyone knows what a hit movie was ‘Baahubali2; The conclusion at the Indian box office, not just the movie, but the film’s songs also went viral with foreigners despite not knowing its meaning, and this is how they learned and started performing it.

Link to the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlkNcHDFnGA

Link to the Indonesians fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix3_j8sjZwE

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Can you imagine a Poland child who is not even 10 years of age is getting a Telugu song mugged up and reciting it live on a talk show, and this song is from Naga Chaitanya and Sai Pallavi’s film ‘Love story’ which has its music composed by Pawan CH.

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Link to the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gwW_JWKLxk

Link to its Intl fans:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEfB3SbOVIc&t=165s

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This is yet another song from Naga Chaitanya’s film ‘Love Story directed by Shekar Kammula that starred Sai Pallavi as the female lead.

More than the movie, the film songs went viral and have become a superhit not just with Indians but Koreans as well check this…!

Link to the song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ozmyl1ZEyY

Link to the intl fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxW7UQz4bSc

Image courtesy: Instagram

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The above old Telugu song is often used by several TV channels and YouTubers for its satirical and funny lyrics. This is a very old Telugu song

from a film titled ‘Erra Mallelu’ Directed by Dhavala Satyam.

Link to the song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P74eDQR-hU

Link to Intl auience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=z3Hdw6r7Rfk

Image courtesy: Instagram

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This superhit song from Venkatesh’s ‘Gharshana’ is a remake of the Tamil film ‘Kaaka Kaaka’ starring Suriya and Jyothika in the lead roles, where Asin played the female lead in Telugu. The film’s music composed by Harris Jayaraj is ever green that is played on music channels continuously even today.

Link to original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M41dsbRO6dQ

Link to West fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAnaIoZatn8

Image courtesy: Instagram

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This is one of the most popular songs in South Indian movies, it is often used to make fun of horror subjects or for pranks and parody songs. The

the song was originally composed in the ‘Chandramukhi’ film by director P.Vasu that starred Rajinikanth and Jyothika the film was also a blockbuster hit besides its songs going viral.

Link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94dxGOen_fg

Link to Intl fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmsDCmJqfK4

Image courtesy: Instagram

Also Read: https://www.thetimesofindia.online/entertainment/telugu/web-stories/rana-naidu-ott-series-premiere-celebrity-red-carpet-pictures/photostory/98539436.cms

This song is adapted from a Telangana folk song by DRC Sunil and it was later adapted into a film by Sai Kartheek that is directed by Anil Ravipudi and not just the film song, the film is also very successful in Tollywood and its song has gone viral as shown below…!

Link to the song: https://youtu.be/57T6RruDUFI

Its Intl audience : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rPOrM0D7ZA

Image courtesy: Instagram

Also Read: https://www.thetimesofindia.online/entertainment/telugu/web-stories/18-new-records-set-by-ss-rajamouli-mm-keeravani-jrntr-and-ramcharans-rrr/photostory/98515256.cms


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