Jessica Chastain on SS Rajamouli's 'RRR': Watching this was such a party

Oscar winner Jessica Chastain is the latest Hollywood Alister to come out in praise of SS Rajamoulis magnum opus RRRThe actor known for her performances in Zero Dark Thirty Interstellar A Most Violent Year and The Eyes of Tammy Faye shared her excitement about watching the film in a Twitter postWatching this film was such a party Chastain wrote sharing a post on Friday by Variance Films the official distributor of RRR in the USThe movies official Twitter handle replied to her tweet and wrote Jessica you enjoying RRR made us happy Starring Ram Charan and Jr NTR in the lead ldquoRRRrdquo follows a preIndependence fictional story woven around two reallife Indian revolutionaries mdash Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem mdash in the 1920s It also stars Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn in key rolesReleased theatrically last March RRR raised reported earnings over Rs 1200 crore at the global box officeThe Hindi version of the film premiered on Netflix on May 20 2022 and soon became the most popular movie from India on the streamer globallyIn the past the movie received praise from the whos who of Hollywood such as Edgar Wright Baby Driver ldquoDoctor Strangerdquo director Scott Derrickson and writer C Robert Cargill Joe Dante of ldquoGremlinsrdquo fame ldquoGuardians of the Galaxy films director James Gunn Dune screenwriter Jon Spaihts filmmaker Christopher Miller and The Gray Man directors Anthony and Joe RussoThe makers are currently gearing up for the Hollywood award season where its distributor Variance Films has mounted a substantial campaign to have the film recognised in the general categories at various ceremoniesAlso ReadSS Rajamouli on Wests reaction to RRR They were reacting the same way as IndiansLast year RRR bagged two Golden Globe nominations Best Picture NonEnglish and Best Song for Naatu Naatu It was followed by five nods for Critics Choice Awards Best Picture Best Director Best Foreign Language Film Best Song for Naatu Naatu and Best Visual EffectsOn Friday the movie made it to the BAFTA longlist for Film not in English Language category It shares space with All Quiet on the Western Front Argentina 1985 Bardo False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Close Corsage Decision To Leave EO Holy Spider and The Quiet GirlThe 10 films will compete to secure a place in the final five for the BAFTA honourThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever