SS Rajamouli hails his motherland India in his speech as RRR wins at Critics Choice Awards 2023, watch
SS Rajamouli at Critics Choice Awards 2023
On Sunday night, filmmaker SS Rajamouli and his film 'RRR' brought laurels for India as it won two categories at the Critics Choice Awards 2023. RRR, which has been having a dream run at the US box office, took home two awards- Best Foreign Film Award and Best Song award for the smash hit 'Naatu Naatu'. Rajamouli was present at the awards ceremony and went up on stage to receive the award for the Best Foreign Language Film and gave a rousing speech which is now being hailed by his fans back home.
The official Twitter handle of 'RRR' shared Rajamouli's speech soon after the win where the filmmaker can be heard praising his country. "Mera Bharat Mahaan ( My country India is the greatest)," said Rajamouli and added "Jai Hind" before exiting the stage.
"RRR won the BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM award at the #CritcsChoiceawards. Here’s @ssrajamouli acceptance speech!! Mera Bharath Mahaan #RRRMovie," read the caption of the video.
In his winning speech, Rajamouli dedicated the award to the women in his life. "To all the women in my life, my mother Rajnandani, she thought school education was overrated and she encouraged me to read comics and story books and she encouraged my creativity. My sister-in-law Sreevalli, who became like a mother to me, always encourages me to be the best version of myself. My wife Rama, she is a costume designer of my films but more than that she is the designer of my life. If she is not there, I am not here today. To my daughters, they don't do anything, just there smile is enough to light my life up."
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Several fans hailed Rajamouli's speech including Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut who wrote on her Instagram stories, "Since Indians are declared the highest earning/most successful community in the USA and most places to be honest, many are wondering how do we do this even after starting from a scratch…most of it comes from our strong family system…we really get a lot of emotional + financial + mental support from our families…and families are build, nurtured and glued together by women."
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Another fan hailed the filmmaker and wrote, "Rajamouli started his speech with Andariki namaskaram and ended with mere Bharath mahan jai hind! That is Rajamouli.” Critics Choice Awards 2023: Full list of winners
Another wrote on Twitter, "Those final words ‘To my motherland, India, Mera Bharat Mahan’ has given me goosebumps.
#SSRajamouli proved again that there is nothing in this world which you can't achieve..True hero and True Inspiration."
"No seriously. I don't know why my eyes are started to tearing up, when @ssrajamouli garu said "To my motherland, India, Mera Bharat Mahan". This pride we celebrate not only for the crew of @RRRMovie but also it belongs to all the Indians who admire cinema. This is cinema."
