2022 REVIEWED!
THE EPIC
IMMENSE INDIAN ACTIONER RRR GOT CROWDS AROUND THE WORLD HOLLERING. ITS CREATOR, S.S. RAJAMOULI, TELLS US WHY HE SIMPLY HAS TO GO BIG
Hear them roar! Bheem (N.T. Rama Rao Jr) and feline friend;
“SOME PROBLEMS,” TWEETED a devotee of RRR in May, “can only be solved by throwing a leopard at them.” It’s a point amply proved by the Indian blockbuster, which features much flinging of large jungle cats (computer-generated ones, of course) over its three-hour runtime. In any other movie, a snarling tiger sailing across the screen would be a top-three moment. In RRR (pronounced not ‘triple-R’ but ‘arr-arr-arr’, like an enthusiastic pirate), it barely cracks the top 30. The film stuffs its volley of set-pieces with imagery so wildly creative and gloriously massive that the results are marvels more marvellous than Marvel. There is an underwater fistfight. Bow-and-arrow mayhem to make Legolas envious. Teeming seas of extras. And an extended dance-off with so much sugar-rush energy, it’s near-impossible not to cheer when it finally brakes to a halt.