RRR Beats TomGun Maverick, Batman! Becomes 2nd Most Popular Movie At Hollywood Critics Association Awards 2022

There is another feather in the cap for Indian film fraternity as SS Rajamouli’s film RRR, featuring Ram Charan and Jr NTR, has been adjudged the second-best film at the Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Awards 2022.

What makes the win special is the fact that the movie surpassed Hollywood films like Top Gun: Maverick, The Batman, Elvis, and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

In an announcement on Twitter, Hollywood Critics Association tweeted that the award for the best film was given to Everything Everywhere All At Once.

The Tweets

The tweet read, “And the winner of the HCA Midseason Award for Best Picture goes to…Everything Everywhere All At Once. Runner up: RRR. #HCAMidseasonAwards #A24 #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce @A24 @EEAAOA24.” 

However, some fans of the RRR said that it was RRR which should have bagged the first position.

Here is what fans had to say about the same :

A tweet read, “RRR should have been the winner! Indian film with worldwide reach and appreciation vs a Hollywood release.” 

Another fan said, “Disappointed. Should have been RRR.” 

A person also tweeted, “Simple EEAAO is hwood /us based film. And got more exposure, hype, reach. RRR is a foreign film with limited exposure. RRR 1st half alone is better theatrical experience than whole EEAAO. People who watched RRR in theatres or home theatres would know which is better.”

More About Hollywood Critics Association

Given by Hollywood critics but open to all films screened in the US, the Hollywood Critics Association honours films with the award twice a year–in February and in July. 

RRR bagging the second best film marks the very first time that an Indian film has been nominated and awarded in the Best Picture category of a major Hollywood award list.

Debuting to rave reviews in April this year and then going on to earn $35 million at the box office after only six weeks in theatres, Everything Everywhere All at Once stars Michelle Yeoh playing Evelyn Wang, a wife and mother living in a universe who is being audited by the IRS at the start of the film.

Things take a dramatic and absurdist turn when she realizes that in order to save the planet she must communicate with parallel universe versions of herself. 

The film has cameos by Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, Jenny Slate, and Jamie Lee Curtis.

On the other hand the SS Rajamouli directed Indian blockbuster RRR which collected over ?1200 crore worldwide, is a fictional story based on the lives of two Telugu freedom fighters, Alluri Seetharama Raju and Komaram Bheem played by Ram Charan and Jr NTR respectively.