RRR ranks 9th in global list of Top 50 films of 2022

SS Rajamouli's film RRR features in the global list of Top 50 films of 2022 curated by Sight and Sound magazine. The list also includes Shaunak Sen's acclaimed documentary All that Breathes. RRR seems to be on an unstoppable run in the international awards season. SS Rajamouli's magnum opus has now secured a place in a global list of the top 50 films of this year. RRR was placed in the 9th spot. Rajamouli's magnum opus follows a pre-Independence story set in the 1920s that revolves around two real-life Indian revolutionaries - Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem. 

RRR – ‘Rise! Roar! Revolt!’ – is a spectacle aimed at big rooms, a money-on-the-screen CGI-enabled action fantasy whose hyperreal violence is reminiscent of role-playing video games or the ‘heroic bloodshed’ mode of John Woo… In place of the grinding self-seriousness of the western superhero picture, RRR boasts a kind of Olympian exuberance running through both its action and its musical sequences.” (Sam Wigley, S&S online)," the description of RRR on the website reads. The film released worldwide in March in five languages -- Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi. "RRR" emerged as a massive box office success even overseas with reported earnings of Rs 1,200 crore.

Shaunak Sen's All That Breathes also featured at 32nd spot. The Delhi-based filmmaker documentary which won best documentary at the 75th Cannes Film Festival follows the lives of two brothers -- Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad -- who run a bird hospital in Delhi dedicated to rescuing injured black kites. The two 'kite brothers' care for thousands of these creatures, which fall daily from Delhi's smog-choked skies. As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, the relationship between the family and the neglected kites forms a poetic chronicle of the city's collapsing ecology and deepening social fault lines.