Los Angeles: RRR director SS Rajamouli met Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron and shared the experience on social media. The Avatar director told Rajamouli that they should talk if the South India director ever wants to try a hand at Hollywood.
"If you ever wanna make a movie over here, let's talk," said Cameron. Rajamouli shared the conversation on social media and wrote: "It doesn't get better than this. Does it?"
They met at the Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles where RRR won two awards - Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Song for Naatu Naatu.
In the video, the Baahubali director was heard saying: "I saw all your movies... Big inspiration. From Terminator, Avatar, Titanic...Everything. Loved your work." Cameron replied: "Thank you. That's right. Now watching your characters...It's just like such a feeling to watch them." Speaking about RRR, Cameron said: "The setup... Your fire, water story. Reveal after reveal. And then you show what happened in the backstory. It's like all of them are a homely setup. Why he's doing what he's doing and the twists and turns and the friendship and eventually it gets to a point where he can't even kill him when the other reverses...It's just so, so powerful."
"You can only imagine what it must be like. Everything that goes behind the movie-making process. Because of all the work and your passion you've put in... all that must be yours. All of them must be surprised, your audience back at your home. And I'm sure this must be a bonus for you. What you must be enjoying today, the world encounters it," he added while praising Rajamouli's work in RRR which has become a talking point in Hollywood.
Rajamouli said Cameron's words mean to him more than an award.
Cameron also spoke to MM Keeravani who composed the Golden Globe-winning song Naatu Naatu. He said: "And you composed, right? Because I saw you at the Golden Globes. The score, it's kind of amazing. Because I like the music to kinda stay out of the way and kinda come on in and support when the audience is already feeling something so it builds the theme. But you are using the music very differently."
Rajamouli took to Twitter to talk about his conversation with Cameron and wrote: "The great James Cameron watched RRR... He liked it so much that he recommended it to his wife Suzy and watched it again with her. Sir, I still cannot believe you spent a whole 10 minutes with us analyzing our movie. As you said I am on top of the world... Thank you both."