‘Naatu Naatu’ lyricist says ‘Wrote 90 percent of song within half a day, rest 10 percent took 1.7 years'

‘RRR's popular song ‘Naatu Naatu’ has brought India the prestigious Golden Globe Award and the entire nation is celebrating. Post the win, song ‘s lyricist Chandrabose expressed gratitude and revealed that it took him one sitting to write 90 per cent of the song and then 19 months to write the rest of it.

Speaking with news agency ANI, he said, ‘It’s a big deal for me. I thank SS Rajamouli and MM Keeravani for giving me the opportunity to write a song for RRR. I wrote 90% of the song within half a day and rest 10% took 1.7 yrs. My effort, hard work and patience have paid off.’

Earlier, Jr NTR had talked about the song and mentioned how tough it was to reach the level of perfection. He said, ‘We shot it on the last leg of the film. We were tortured for 65 nights. We were beating each other, me and Ram Charan — we were killing each other and then it started with apologising — SS Rajamouli really wanted us to hate each other. Finally, by the 21st or 22nd night, we stopped apologising and said let’s get it done. And that’s when he brings his bazooka, called Naatu Naatu. We’ve done complicated steps, but Naatu Naatu is not about the steps being complicated, it was the synchronisation, which Rajamouli stressed on.’

He further added how SS Rajamouli ‘tortured’ them during the song shoot and said, ‘We shot that song for 12 days, and this man would torture us from 8-8, we would sleep at 11:30, and wake up at 5:30. This happened after 7 days of rehearsals. He was so hell-bent on synchronisation, watching on the monitor if the legs and hands went together, and I was like ‘Jesus, why are you doing this?’

‘Naatu Naatu’ from the period action-drama film `RRR` was competing against Taylor Swift`s `Carolina` from Where the Crawdads Sing, `Ciao Papa` from Guillermo del Toro`s Pinocchio, Lady Gaga`s `Hold My Hand` from Top Gun: Maverick, and `Lift Me U` from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, performed by Rihanna.

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