SS Rajamouli together with his 83-year-old fan in Japan
| Photo Credit: @ssrajamouli/X
Filmmaker SS Rajamouli, who attended a special screening of his blockbuster film RRRin Japan, has mentioned that he’s grateful for the love the viewers continues to bathe on the film even after nearly two years of its launch.
According to Japanese movie distribution outlet Twin Company, the RRR screenings had been held on Monday at multiplex theatres Shinjuku Piccadilly Cinema and Shinjuku Wald 9 in Tokyo.
Rajamouli, who attended one of many screenings, shared a collection of pictures with an aged Japanese lady who gifted him 1,000 origami cranes.
Twin Company distributed RRR in Japan on October 21, 2022, months after its launch in India. The movie, starring Ram Charan and Jr NTR, earned over 410 million yen (roughly Rs 23 crore) on the Japanese field workplace.
In an X submit, the distribution studio mentioned as Rajamouli was unable to work together with RRR followers the final time he visited Japan as a result of an infection management measures in the wake of the pandemic, they honoured his want to watch the movie with “a cheering crowd”.
A pan-India movie, RRR followed a pre-independence fictional story woven round two real-life Indian revolutionaries — Alluri Sitarama Raju (Charan) and Komaram Bheem (Jr NTR) — in the 1920s.
The movie raised over Rs 1,200 crore on the international field workplace and went on to win the best original song Oscar for its track “Naatu Naatu”.