The Oscar nominations are around the corner.

Which means we're in peak Oscar campaign season.

And there's one movie waging a campaign that's unlike any other.

It's called RRR.

It's an anti-colonial Indian epic.

There's singing. There's dancing.

But there's also some of the most audacious action you will ever see on a screen.

Seriously, it puts the fast, furious franchise to shame.

But there's another thing that sets this movie apart.

Critics seem to see it two different ways.

Take this headline from MPR.

If you haven't been back to the movies yet, Indian epic RRR is the reason to go.

And compared to this headline from Slate,

A wild Indian blockbuster is ravishing movie fans,

but they're missing its troubling subtext.

We're going to try and get to the bottom of the troubling subtext bit on this year episode of Today Explained.

My face hurt because without knowing it, I was just grinning ear to ear.

Because I had never seen anything like this film.

And my only thing that I've ever seen is this film.

Today Explained Sean RRAMAS for him.

This episode doesn't need a disclaimer, but RRR has one if you try to watch it on Netflix.

The story of this film has been set in the backdrop of pre-independent India and is purely fictional.

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