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A performance of 'Naatu Naatu' from the film 'RRR,' with more than 20 dancers, had a predictably galvanizing effect on the Academy Awards ceremony.

The “Naatu Naatu” performance took place about an hour and a half into the telecast, but viewers didn’t have to wait that long to get a taste of the dancing that captivated audiences in the U.S. “RRR” follows two patriotic but philosophically opposed men who team up to rescue a girl from British colonial officials in 1920s Delhi. A recent screening at the Theatre at Ace Hotel in L.A. There has been plenty of dancing among moviegoers to make up for any that the stars haven’t been doing lately. Keeravani, who scored the film as well as co-writing its many songs, and lyricist Chandrabose are the honorees for their work on the S.S. Singers Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava recreated their vocals from the movie’s soundtrack, as a troupe of more than 20 dancers had their exuberant way with the choreography that became the year’s biggest movie-music meme.

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If you’re going to attempt any of these dance moves, make sure you watch the movie first and get some practice in beforehand. One of the best moments from the Academy Awards came with a roaring performance of the song “Naatu Naatu” from the film RRR. The song has made the rounds ever since the Indian historical blockbuster became a global sensation, and the Oscars helped faithfully recreate the scene from the film with a host of dancers.

A performance of "Naatu Naatu," the Best Original Song nominee from the Indian film RRR, earned a standing ovation Sunday night at the 95th Academy Awards.

At the end, the dancers made their way off the stage and into the aisles. It’s a non-stop dance number that literally has had movie audiences dancing in the theater. A performance of “Naatu Naatu,” the Best Original Song nominee from the Indian film RRR, earned a standing ovation Sunday night at the 95th Academy Awards.

'Naatu Naatu' is the favorite to win the Best Original Song award at the Oscars 2023. Here are the complete lyrics and their translation into English.

Listen to my song. The phrase ‘Naatu Naatu’ is a Telugu expression that translates simply as “Dance, dance” in English. Nominated within this category is the song ‘Naatu Naatu’ from the hit film ‘RRR’. Tonight the finest achievements in cinema will be celebrated at the 2023 Oscars award ceremony. Here are the full lyrics for ‘Naatu Naatu,’ and their English translation... Here are the complete lyrics and their translation into English.

Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava perform "Naatu Naatu" from 'RRR' at the 2023 Oscars.

[RRR](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/rrr/). Keeravaani and Chandrabose composed the track, which has won honors at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice [Awards](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/awards/). The 95th Academy Awards is being hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and airing live on ABC. Several background dancers were energetic onstage, displaying intense choreography and killer footwork that was applauded by the audience. [Oscars red carpet arrivals](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/2023-oscars-red-carpet-looks-arrivals-photos-1235349270). [Subscribe Sign Up](https://cloud.email.hollywoodreporter.com/signup/) [Naatu Naatu](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/naatu-naatu/)” brought the Sunday night fever to the [2023 Oscars](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscars-winners-list-1235349224/). [Oscars](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/oscars/) include Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up” from [Black Panther: Wakanda Forever](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/black-panther-wakanda-forever/), which she co-wrote with Tems, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson; Diane Warren’s “Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman; Lady Gaga’s “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick; and David Byrne’s “This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once. [Share this article on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/rahul-sipligunj-kaala-bhairava-perform-naatu-naatu-2023-oscars-1235349998/&title=“Naatu%20Naatu”%20From%20‘RRR’%20Gets%20Lively%20Oscars%20Performance&sdk=joey&display=popup&ref=plugin&src=share_button&app_id=1153511048447777) [Share this article on Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/rahul-sipligunj-kaala-bhairava-perform-naatu-naatu-2023-oscars-1235349998/&text=%E2%80%9CNaatu%20Naatu%E2%80%9D%20From%20%E2%80%98RRR%E2%80%99%20Gets%20Lively%20Oscars%20Performance&via=thr) [Share this article on Email](mailto:?subject=thr%20:%20“Naatu%20Naatu”%20From%20‘RRR’%20Gets%20Lively%20Oscars%20Performance&body=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/rahul-sipligunj-kaala-bhairava-perform-naatu-naatu-2023-oscars-1235349998/%20-%20“Naatu%20Naatu”%20From%20‘RRR’%20Gets%20Lively%20Oscars%20Performance) [Show additional share options](#) [Share this article on Print]() [Share this article on Comment](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/rahul-sipligunj-kaala-bhairava-perform-naatu-naatu-2023-oscars-1235349998/#respond) [Share this article on Whatsapp](whatsapp://send?text=“Naatu%20Naatu”%20From%20‘RRR’%20Gets%20Lively%20Oscars%20Performance%20-%20https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/rahul-sipligunj-kaala-bhairava-perform-naatu-naatu-2023-oscars-1235349998/) [Share this article on Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=1&url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/rahul-sipligunj-kaala-bhairava-perform-naatu-naatu-2023-oscars-1235349998/&title=“Naatu%20Naatu”%20From%20‘RRR’%20Gets%20Lively%20Oscars%20Performance&summary&source=thr) [Share this article on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/rahul-sipligunj-kaala-bhairava-perform-naatu-naatu-2023-oscars-1235349998/&title=“Naatu%20Naatu”%20From%20‘RRR’%20Gets%20Lively%20Oscars%20Performance) [Share this article on Pinit](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/link/?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/rahul-sipligunj-kaala-bhairava-perform-naatu-naatu-2023-oscars-1235349998/&description=“Naatu%20Naatu”%20From%20‘RRR’%20Gets%20Lively%20Oscars%20Performance) [Share this article on Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl&url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/rahul-sipligunj-kaala-bhairava-perform-naatu-naatu-2023-oscars-1235349998/&posttype=link&title=“Naatu%20Naatu”%20From%20‘RRR’%20Gets%20Lively%20Oscars%20Performance)

Telugu song Naatu Naatu is up against heavyweights like Lady Gaga and Rihanna at the 2023 Academy Awards.

Nearly a year after its release, the song is still going strong with the audiences. In past interviews, the director has confessed that people called him "crazy" for shooting in a country on the verge of war. Ram Charan and NTR Jr then turn to take on each other and a dance competition between the two heroes follows. Since the film's release last year, fans have been trying to replicate the intricate foot swivels and catchy dance moves. Rakshit said he made 30 versions of the signature step in which NTR Jr and Ram Charan dance with their arms around each other. "Each of them [the actors] have their own style," Rajamouli said in an earlier interview.

In a field full of heavy hitters, the film's soundtrack to a dance battle won best original song at Sunday's Academy Awards, becoming the first-ever song ...

Unlike its fellow nominees for best original song, "Naatu Naatu" was central to the film from which it came; the song pops up an hour into RRR, soundtracking a fierce dance battle between the film's main characters and a group of stuffy British colonizers. Keeravani and Chandrabose received the Oscar statuettes, but the success of "Naatu Naatu" had many authors, from the stars who danced to it in RRR (N.T. and Ram Charan) to the vocalists who performed it (Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava) to the choreographer who helped make its video a viral sensation (Prem Rakshith).

The hit song from S.S. Rajamouli's Tollywood blockbuster "RRR" won an Oscar for composer M.M. Keeravani.

That could continue to be the case (the director is working on a musical adaptation of the Indian national epic the Mahabharata and is open to making an “RRR” sequel). If you don’t reach that expectation, you’re going to have a flat film. When I have a basic storytelling and the people who are going to act in the film, I also know that the audiences will expect songs. If you go beyond that expectation, then you’re going to have a blockbuster. If you reach that expectation, you will have a successful film. The film is playing on over a thousand screens in North America, and watching it with a packed audience familiar with Telugu-language cinema is likely to yield one of the noisiest and most raucous theatrical experiences imaginable. I would like to make my characters real but the action over the top. Speaking to IndieWire, Rajamouli [recalled](https://www.indiewire.com/2022/12/rrr-ss-rajamouli-mm-keeravani-interview-1234789145/) the way that his relationship with his longtime composer made it easy to discuss the narrative context in which the song takes place to deliver a more impactful musical number. “I always like to push the boundaries,” Rajamouli said. “He’s a great dancer, but he’s in a completely unfamiliar world. Rama Rao Jr, and excitement around the song only grew as the film slowly built a following out of streaming audiences from around the globe. The energetic musical number became a viral hit thanks to the electric duet performance from Ram Charan and N.T.

The infectious number from action blockbuster 'RRR' made it the first Indian film to be nominated in any category outside international film.

rerelease](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-09-07/rrr-s-s-rajamouli-oscars-beyond-fest). Jr NTR, and Charan](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-01-16/rrr-stars-ram-charan-ntr-jr), whose charismatic lead turns in the 1920s-set anticolonialist epic are highlighted in the breathless number that had audiences dancing in the aisles throughout the film’s international theatrical runs and [wildly popular U.S. Keeravani](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2022-11-17/rrr-joe-jonas-mitski-david-byrne-original-songs) and lyrics by Chandrabose, the infectious Telugu-language dance number from director [S.S. Rajamouli](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-11-18/rrr-ss-rajamouli-oscars)’s crossover action hit is the first song from an Indian film to be nominated, and win, in its category. production “Slumdog Millionaire.” But the vast majority of winners spanning the category’s nearly 90 years in existence have been English-language songs from Hollywood films. ‘RRR’ has to win, pride of every Indian, and must put me on the top of the world.” The hit song became a popular breakout number as “RRR” mania swept the globe last year, translated as “Naacho Naacho” in Hindi, “Naattu Koothu” in Tamil, “Halli Naatu” in Kannada and “Karinthol” in Malayalam. I grew up listening to the Carpenters, and now here I am with the Oscars,” Keeravani said in his acceptance speech, before breaking into song: “There was only one wish on my mind ... [Jai Ho](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-oscaroriginalsong23-2009feb23-story.html)” won the original song Oscar for Danny Boyle’s U.K. Filmed over two weeks at Ukraine’s presidential palace months before the Russian invasion, “Naatu Naatu” unfolds as freedom-fighting besties Komaram Bheem (Jr NTR) and Alluri Sitarama Raju (Charan) unite in a fast-paced dance-off against bullying British rivals. [RRR](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-01-24/rrr-s-s-rajamouli-oscars-nominations-2023),” won the Oscar for original song, making history in the process. An elated Ram Charan, who starred in the film, couldn’t stop grinning in the moments following Keeravani and Chandrabose’s Oscar win for “Naatu Naatu.” Paired with watching the song’s high-energy performance onstage tonight, it’s all felt “like an out-of-body experience,” Charan said as the “RRR” crew spilled into the lobby, already planning their post-Oscars partying.

'Naatu Naatu' from 'RRR' overcame superstar competition to become the first Tollywood Oscar winner. The composer celebrated by citing the Carpenters.

And the coda, the end part of the song, consists of so much stamina, you cannot call it merely a song — it is an action sequence.” And in ‘Naatu Naatu,’ this beat took another dimension and another level of BPM (beats per minute) which is very rarely heard in the West. At the 2019 Oscars, “Jai Ho,” from the film “Slumdog Millionaire,” prevailed, with composer A.R. “The beat is 6/8 — that’s not very frequently heard from the West, but more frequently heard from India and sometimes from Africa and countries like that,” said the composer. Keeravani](https://variety.com/t/m-m-keeravani/), who co-wrote all the songs for the film as well as its score, and lyricist Chandrabose. Their triumph followed a highly energized song-and-dance performance of “Naatu Naatu” that was, by acclamation, one of the highlights of this year’s telecast.

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Keeravani](https://deadline.com/tag/m-m-keeravani/) celebrated his Oscar win Sunday for Best Original Song, well, in song. “Naatu Naatu” is the first song ever from an Indian movie to win in the category. However, the duo tonight are the second and third Indian songwriters to win in the category: Indian songwriter A.R.

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