‘Naatu Naatu’: Everything To Know About Song Poised To Beat Rihanna & Taylor Swift At Golden Globes

• “Naatu Naatu” is simply a opus featured successful the 2021 film, RRR.
• It was nominated for Best Original Song astatine the 80th Golden Globe Awards.
• “Naatu Naatu” volition vie against Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and much for the award.

One of the biggest surprises of the 2022 movie twelvemonth was the planetary occurrence of RRR, the Telugu-language epic enactment play from manager S. S. Rajamouli. A fictionalized/mythological communicative of relationship betwixt Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem, real-life revolutionaries opposing British rule, RRR features “quite perchance 1 of cinema’s champion philharmonic creation sequences,” per Slash Film. It is the creation fig featuring Raju (Ram Charan) and Bheem (N. T. Rama Rao Jr.) showing disconnected the British aristocracy on to the infectious song, “Naatu Naatu.”

The opus itself is an earworm, but what has helped the way spell viral is the dance, choreographed by Prem Rakshith. In 1 moment, the stars execute a hook step, and fans person since headed to TikTok successful hopes of recreating the steps. BJ Colangelo‘s dissection of the country for Slash Film covers the song’s taste tie-ins and however the hook measurement series successful “Naatu Naatu” was “designed to marque america each privation to dance, and it worked brilliantly.”

That brilliance whitethorn wage disconnected large during the 80th Golden Globes. The opus heads into the Jan. 10 awards amusement nominated for Best Song and mightiness propulsion disconnected a triumph implicit specified names similar Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Tems, Lady Gaga, and Guillermo del Toro. Before it each goes down, here’s a clang people connected the opus astatine the bosom of RRR.

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Who Performs “Naatu Naatu”?

“Naatu Naatu” was composed by M.M. Keeravani, and features with lyrics by Chandrabose, a prolific writer who has penned lyrics for much than 3,500 songs utilized successful Telugu films.

(Telugu is the connection spoken chiefly successful southeastern India, and is the authoritative connection of the states Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It is the autochthonal connection of implicit 83 cardinal people. As of 2021, Telugu cinema, oregon Tollywood, is the largest movie manufacture successful India.)

“Some songs implicit the years person gotten attention, but this was the archetypal 1 to get this benignant of planetary response,” Keeravani told The Wrap. “This effect was not anticipated. … There’s a batch of vigor flowing and happening. The lyrics picture antithetic kinds of vigor and however vigor flows, and past you person the high-energy beats. … It was a foot-tapping number, but past it escalated. It’s not conscionable a song, it’s an full experience.”

While the actors sing the opus successful RRR, it’s not Rao oregon Charan’s voices that the assemblage hears. “Naatu Naatu” is performed by playback singers (ghost singers whose singing is pre-recorded for films) Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava.

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Golden Globe Nomination

“Naatu Naatu” is 1 of RRR‘s 2 nominations for the 80th Golden Globes (the different being for Best Non-English Language Film.) To instrumentality location Best Original Song, “Naatu Naatu” needs to defeat:

• Taylor Swift, “Carolina” — from Where The Crawdads Sing
• Lady Gaga (with BloodPop and Benjamin Rice), “Hold My Hand” – from Top Gun: Maverick
• Rihanna (with Tems, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Göransson), “Lift Me Up” – from Blank Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, and Guillermo del Toro, “Ciao Papa” – from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

While the opus volition person to spell up against Rihanna, Gaga, and Taylor, immoderate deliberation “Naatu Naatu” volition locomotion distant a victor astatine the Golden Globes.

Not from the creation number, but inactive precise epic (Everett Collection)

“It is the astir upbeat opus of the clump arsenic it makes viewers privation to creation retired to it, and comes with a precise catchy tune, with a choreography video country that galore of its fans person tried to replicate connected societal media,” writes Christopher Tsang for Gold Derby. “It is simply a testament to the film, which has decidedly amazed crossed the committee with awards bodies for its over-performance, being the 2nd overseas connection movie to marque the National Board of Review Top 10 (after “Roma”), and Rajamouli nabbing the Best Director prize astatine the New York Film Critics Circle, arsenic good arsenic the movie getting 5 Critics Choice Awards nominations, including Best Picture and Director.”

Will It Be Nominated For An Oscar?

There is simply a accidental that “Naatu Naatu” gets nominated for an Oscar. In December 2021, the film’s authoritative Twitter relationship revealed that it had been shortlisted for Best Original Song. The contention successful this archetypal circular of voting is tough, and the class lone has 5 disposable nominations. Along with “Naatu Naatu,” the pursuing songs had been shortlisted, (h/t ComicBook.com):

• Giveon, “Time” (Amsterdam),
• The Weeknd, “Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” (Avatar: The Way of Water)
• Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up” (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
• Son Lux, Mitski, and David Byrne, “This Is A Life” (Everything Everywhere All astatine Once)
• Gregory Mann, “Ciao Papa” (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio)
• Rita Wilson, “Til You’re Home” (A Man Called Otto)
• Selena Gomez, “My Mind & Me” (Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me)
• Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell, “Good Afternoon” (Spirited)
• Sofia Carlson and Diane Warren, “Applause” (Tell It Like a Woman)
• Jazmine Sullivan, “Stand Up” (Till)
• Lady Gaga, “Hold My Hand” (Top Gun: Maverick)
• Norah Jones and Ralph, “Dust & Ash” (The Voice of Dust and Ash)
• Taylor Swift, “Carolina” (Where the Crawdads Sing)
• LCD Soundsystem, “New Body Rhumba” (White Noise)

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Whether it takes location a Golden Globe oregon an Oscar, “Naatu Naatu” is simply a victor for starring caller audiences to the country’s dynamic cinema output — and perchance for opening the doors for much Telugu songs to person planetary acclaim.

“In India, we are utilized to crowds going ballistic during screenings: shouting, laughing, clapping, dancing, throwing confetti into the air,” says manager Rajamouli to RogerEbert.com. “But to spot that happening extracurricular my country, extracurricular my languages, is an unthinkable feeling. I’d ne'er adjacent dreamt that RRR would resonate with radical crossed cultures, crossed countries. I ne'er expected that.”

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