Tom Cruise Loved RRR And Naatu Naatu Song: Lyricist Chandrabose
The Oscar-winning song 'Naatu Naatu' lyricist Chandrabose who received the award along with Telugu blockbuster film RRR music director MM Keeravani revealed that Top Gun famed Hollywood film actor Tom Cruise also liked the song and the film.
Speaking to Sakshi after receiving the Oscar award at a glittering ceremony held in LA on March 13, the Srivalli ( Pushpa) lyricist shared this news with the reporter. He said that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held a luncheon at the Beverly Hilton on February 13 ahead of the awards ceremony. While they were at the table someone pointed out that Tom Cruise was seated at the table next to theirs. Chandrabose immediately went and greeted Tom Cruise and introduced himself as the songwriter of Naatu Naatu of RRR. Chandrabose stated that Tom Cruise said that he liked the song and the film and what more can one ask for when the word Naatu Naatu was heard from the mouth of a Hollywood actor, that too someone like Tom Cruise, he gushed.
Chandrabose’s wife Suchitra was elated and became highly emotional after she witnessed her husband take the Oscar award for penning the Oscar-winning song Naatu Naatu in SS Rajamouli’s RRR, She said that her husband was a bookworm whose passion is reading books, writing and acquiring knowledge. It is a matter of pride that the greatness of Telugu films is now recognized in the international scenario, she said.
Kanukuntla Subhash Chandrabose who goes by the pen name Chandrabose has an engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from JNTU. He debuted as a lyricist with the 1995 film Taj Mahal and has written lyrics for about 3600 songs in over 850 films in a career spanning over 25 years. The lyricist won two Nandi awards and two Filmfare awards for his songs and recently won the SIIMA award 2022 for the super hit song Srivalli from Allu Arjun’s Pushpa the Rise.
Received my CRITICS CHOICE & HCA awards❤️❤️🙏 pic.twitter.com/f1J3zXfMQz
— chandrabose (@boselyricist) March 10, 2023
The Naatu Naatu song earlier won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song and also the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for 2022.
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