‘RRR’ Filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli Producing Feature About Origins Of Indian Cinema
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: S.S. Rajamouli is currently assembling a production team for a new movie about the birth and rise of Indian Cinema.
Rajamouli, whose RRR racked up an Oscar win and over $166M WW, is not directing, we understand. At $130M, RRR is the third highest grossing movie in Indian cinema.
Rajamouli is ‘presenting’ which over in India is a bigger title than producer on a film, though akin to how Hollywood views the role of a producer.
The new biopic about Indian Cinema is not yet titled, though reps for Rajamouli promise it’s a “magnum opus telling” which will be told “on a huge scale and canvas.” RRR followed the fictitious telling of two legendary revolutionaries and their journey away from home before they started fighting for their country in the 1920s.
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