Oscars 2023: 'Naatu Naatu' gets nominated, 'We created history' tweets 'RRR'

Minutes after the Academy awards announced 'Naatu Naatu' from SS Rajamouli's magnum opus RRR as a nominee in its Best Original Song category, the filmmakers rejoiced by tweeting that they made history and that the nomination was music to their ears.

Earlier in the day, RRR's official Twitter account had tweeted a single emoji ahead of the announcements. With a “fingers crossed” emoji, RRR’s handle expressed nervous anticipations as the movie may become one of the few from India to make it to the final nominations of The Academy Awards in the past two decades.

As of 2022, apart from Mother India, only two Indian films have been nominated for the Oscars are Salaam Bombay! (1988) and Lagaan (2001). Both didn’t win the prestigious award.

In 2008, AR Rahman scored two wins at the Oscars for his work on the Hollywood production Slumdog Millionaire, set in India, with an all-Indian cast however it was not India’s entry.