Hi everyone and thank you for tuning into the 474th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

Reporter's Awards podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, THR's Executive Editor of Awards Coverage.

And my guest today is a filmmaker from India who's consistent track record of massive

critical and commercial success into Lugo language cinema might lead one to call him the

James Cameron of Hollywood.

Described by the New Yorker as an artist of distinctive temperament and talent by the

New York Times as a filmmaker with a knack for maximalist action and imaginative set pieces,

many of which are built around dynamic special effects and choreography.

And by the Los Angeles Times as a master of spectacle and one of his country's preeminent

powerhouse filmmakers, he is the winner of three national film awards, India's equivalent

of Oscars and is the highest paid director in India, not least because three of his films

are among the five highest grossing in the history of Indian cinema, each of which,

when made, was also the most expensive Indian film ever, 2015's Bahubali, the beginning,

2017's Bahubali to the conclusion and 2022's RRR.

I'm talking of course about SS Rajamuli.

RRR Rajamuli's twelfth feature is a period piece musical action romantic thriller that

is his biggest international success yet.

On a budget of $72 million, it has raked in $175 million from box offices around the

world, making it the third highest grossing film of all time in India and the fourth highest

grossing Indian film around the world.

And it has reached untold numbers of additional people via Netflix, resulting in the likes

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