Priyanka Chopra says RRR is not a Bollywood movie but a ‘Tamil film’

At a screening of the film in the US in January, director Rajamouli had emphasised to American journalists that ‘RRR’ wasn’t a Bollywood movie but "a Telugu film that comes from the south of India."
Priyanka Chopra says RRR is not a Bollywood movie but a ‘Tamil film’
Priyanka Chopra says RRR is not a Bollywood movie but a ‘Tamil film’
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Actor and producer Priyanka Chopra mistakenly referred to Telugu film RRR as a ‘Tamil film’, in an interview with American podcast host Dax Shepard on Armchair Expert Podcast, which was released on Spotify on Tuesday, March 28. In the two-and-a-half hour long podcast, Priyanka also spoke about her experience moving from India to the United States, transitioning from Bollywood to Hollywood, her relationship with husband Nick Jonas and having a child.

In a discussion about Bollywood, Priyanka said: “Bollywood has evolved in such an incredible way, where you have that mainstream, big movie which is like, big actors and the action and the love story and the dancing. It’s our Avengers.” The interviewer Dax Shepard then mentioned that he saw RRR, to which Priyanka replied, “That’s a Tamil movie by the way. That's like a big, mega, blockbuster Tamil movie, which does all of those things. It’s like our Avengers.” She went on to say that while people come out to see such big movies, there were multiple genres within Bollywood. 

RRR released in theatres in India in March 2022, in five languages — Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. Ahead of the awards season this year, the film gained popularity in the United States too. In January, addressing a group of American journalists prior to a screening of the film at the Directors Guild of America, director SS Rajamouli had emphasised that RRR is “not a Bollywood movie,” but "a Telugu film that comes from the south of India". 

With many snippets from the podcast episode going viral, a few social media users have objected to Priyanka’s remark. 

Priyanka Chopra had recently hosted one of the lead actors of RRR Ram Charan and his wife Upasana at her Los Angeles home, when the couple was in the US to attend the 95th Academy Awards. The song ‘Naatu Naatu’ from RRR won the Oscar for best original song this year. Ram Charan and Priyanka have also worked together in the 2013 Hindi film Zanjeer.

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