“Modern Masters: S.S. Rajamouli” is a Netflix documentary about life and movies of Indian filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli.
As of today, we are talking about India’s most renowned filmmaker, RRR director S.S. Rajamouli. pure spectacle!
Today Netflix offers us this documentary in which we will accompany the director through several cities during the world premiere of RRR, the film that took him beyond the borders of India and made him world famous.
A film that went on to win an Oscar from the Hollywood Academy.
About the documentary
The documentary begins with the director in Hollywood, where his favorite films were shot, where the mass spectacle that for S.S. Rajamouli is cinema was created. This director is nicknamed “the James Cameron of India” precisely because of his sense of spectacle. It will be James Cameron himself who will give his opinion on his cinema and the Indian director’s sense of spectacle.
Then we arrive in Tokyo, where thousands of fans are waiting for the premiere of the movie
S.S. Rajamouli started out as an associate director and even tried his hand at a silent film. He then went on to television, where he directed 500 episodes of a TV series (yes, you read that right, 500). Then came his first film, shortly before the year 2000… since then he polished his art and, above all, his sense of spectacle and understanding of the Indian industry and culture itself and created a cinema-show tailored to the public, who began to devour his films and enjoy them, with all that mixture of passion, unbridled action and catchy music so characteristic.
A director obsessed with the perfect shot who did not mind repeating the same scene a thousand times until he achieved the aesthetic perfection he was looking for.
A director who employs many family members in his films: his cousins, his own wife… because S.S. Rajamouli comes from a family obsessed with making films.
Would you like to get to know him a little better? Netflix offers us this journey with the director through different scenarios. It is not a documentary that is going to discover these documentaries about cinema: they are interviews with actors, with the director himself, family members and archive images.
Of course, we have the director himself talking quietly and calmly to the camera, showing himself very close and explaining, step by step, how he came to create this vision of cinema so spectacular and particular that, today, triumphs around the world.
From August 2nd on Netflix.
Enjoy it.
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