‘RRR’ dir Rajamouli thanks NY Film Critics Circle for recognising ‘small film from south of India’

New Delhi, Jan 5 (PTI): SS Rajamouli, the best director winner at the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) Awards for “RRR”, has thanked the organisation for appreciating his “small film from the south of India”.
The filmmaker was named the recipient of the honour earlier last month and received the trophy in person on Wednesday evening at a gala held at TAO Downtown Restaurant in New York.
A pre-Independence fictional story, “RRR” is a fictionalised story around two real-life Indian revolutionaries in the 1920s Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem, essayed by Ram Charan and Jr NTR, respectively. “Receiving this award from you is a great honour. I really appreciate it. You have honoured my whole cast and crew and have made a lot of people take notice of a small film from the south of India. Many people don’t know that such a field exists but because of this, now I am sure many people will look at it,” Rajamouli said in his acceptance speech, the videos of which were shared by the official Twitter handle of “RRR”.
The period action epic, which has amassed reported earnings of over Rs 1,200 crore since its release last March, has received rave reviews not only at home but also from the who’s who of world cinema including “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn and “Baby Driver” director Edgar Wright.