Everyone is talking about “Rrr,” the Indian Telugu-language epic that chronicles the fictional exploits of two real-life revolutionaries.
The three-hour-long, 72 million action-musical is massive in every way, save for its alliterative, catchy title.
But what does it actually stand for? It would be easy to assume that the acronym serves as a shorthand for the film’s official title, “Rise Roar Revolt,” but it’s actually more rooted in straight-forward audience marketing.The film’s protagonists are Alluri Sitarama Raju (Ram Charan) and Komaram Bheem (Rama Rao), two real-life revolutionaries who fought against the British Raj.
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