HistoRRRic Win: Naatu Naatu's Golden Globes victory puts Indian music on world map like AR Rahman's Jai Ho

As Jenny Ortega took the stage at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in California to announce the winner for Best Original song at the 80th Golden Globe Awards, team RRR with SS Rajamouli, Ram Charan and Jr NTR waited anxiously while the nominee montage played. This included pop sensations Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Rihanna. When Naatu Naatu was announced the winner, composer MM Keeravaani erupted in joy. After a brief celebration, he made his way to the stage to accept the honour. “It has been an age-old practice to say this award belongs to someone else. I was planning not to say those words but I am going to repeat the tradition…this award belongs to my brother SS Rajamouli and his vision”. As Keeravaani thanked Rajamouli and co, the music cut him off rather unceremoniously as the playback singer-cum-composer struggled to finish his speech.

The moment wasn’t pleasant to watch as one rarely sees the winners of Best Actor (who happen to be predominantly White Men) being cut off in the middle of their speech. Of course, the air-time for every award show is limited and given how lengthy the speeches can get, the music is a necessity to prompt the winners to keep it short. But somehow, it is always the winners in technical categories — sound, music and editing who face the brunt of this. Regardless, the win was celebrated with much furor on Twitter and Oscar winner AR Rahman too congratulated Keeravaani Garu for making history.

And the GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL SONG Goes to #NaatuNaatu #GoldenGlobes #GoldenGlobes2023 #RRRMovie

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— RRR Movie (@RRRMovie) January 11, 2023

MM Keeravaani’s #GoldenGlobes2023 acceptance Speech!! ❤️‍