Is RRR Based On A True Story?
The Telugu-language Indian blockbuster RRR has become a huge crossover hit in 2022, but audiences may wonder if its historical tale is based on truth. Combining the complicated antagonist/protagonist friendships of action movies like Point Break with both Hindu mythology and historical stories of real-life personalities, writer and director S. S. Rajamouli creates a thrilling action epic. Rajamouli says (via Deccan Chronicle) that the film is about the "imaginary friendship between two superheroes," and the extraordinary stunt sequences in RRR earn their hype easily stand alongside anything from the current crop of Western superhero movies.
The two superheroes are Alluri Sitarama Raju (Ram Charan) and Komaram Bheem (N. T. Rama Rao Jr.), an imperial police officer and an Indian freedom fighter, respectively, who begin as enemies but swiftly become great friends. Bheem is sent to Delhi to rescue Malli from the villainous English Governor Buxton (Ray Stevenson), who has purchased the girl as a gift for his wife. RRR's plot is influenced by the ancient Sanskrit epic Ramayana but also has a basis in real-life.
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Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem were real-life Indian freedom fighters, albeit ones who lived decades apart and never actually met. RRR is therefore a fictionalized account of both men's lives, imagining their commonalities and what they could have achieved had they met. This true-life aspect of RRR , along with its titular thematic meaning, adds an edge to the movie's strong anti-imperialist message and has particular political relevance for the India of today.
Born in 1897 in the Coastal city of Visakhapatnam, Alluri Seetharama Raju is still an inspirational figure for
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