What Does RRR Stand For? Movie Title Meaning Explained

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Here's why S.S. Rajamouli chose RRR as a title and what it really means. RRR is the biggest Telugu blockbuster to date. With relentless action, exciting musical sequences, and breathtaking visual effects, the Telugu movie has soared in popularity among the biggest movies of 2022. However, the story doesn't really explain what the title means, and it only provides vague hints at the visual «FiRe» and «WateR» themes of the film.

N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan star as fictional versions of the real-life Indian freedom fighters Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju, who lived in the same period of the country's history but never actually met. As a pair of nigh-invincible superheroes, they search for a kidnapped girl, fight the forces of nature, and revolt against the British Empire. Not once in RRR's three-hour runtimedo the three letters come as an explicit part of the plot, and their meaning remains one of the biggest questions after the credits roll.

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RRR is an acronym for «Roudram Ranam Rudhiram,» which can be roughly translated from Telugu as «Fierce Death Blood,» or to follow the original title's alliteration, «Rise Roar Revolt.» These words are key to RRR's plot, which centers around Raju and Bheem's revolution against the British Empire and their use of wilderness to achieve it. The «fierce roar» themein RRR is mostly illustrated by the (fully CGI-rendered) tiger Bheem captures at the beginning of the movie, but also by Raju, who becomes as wild as the lion when he takes up the bow and arrow toward the final act. To top it off, RRR includes some displays of brutal violence, which account for the «Death and Blood» of the original title