from tollywood, in south india. and the oscars endorsement, on top of the film's box office success, is giving hollywood a bit of a wake—up call, showing there are other ways of bringing audiences film fa ntasy. there's something about rrr that's appealing to people that goes beyond the parameters of south asian cinema and allows it to just feel like universal escapism. and also, i think a lot of audiences are starved of good escapism. we have so many marvel movies, we have so many star wars movies, and that sort of storytelling has started to feel kind of redundant. this is an original, big spectacle, and it'sjust really exciting to see that in a movie theatre setting. india's other oscar night victory was for the elephant whisperers, a story set in a rescue camp for orphaned elephants, which won for best documentary short. and india was also nominated for its feature—length documentary all that breathes,