SS Rajamouli feels MM Keeravaani’s Padma Shri was long overdue

‘RRR’ director SS Rajamouli congratulated music composer MM Keeravaani on his Padma Shri honour on social media on Thursday.

Sharing a photo, Rajamouli wrote, ‘Like many of your fans feel, this recognition indeed was long overdue. But, as you say the universe has a strange way of rewarding one’s efforts. If I can talk back to universe, I would say Konchem gap ivvamma. okati poorthigaa enjoy chesaaka inkoti ivvu.’ This can be loosely translated as, ‘Please give some gap. Give another one after enjoying this one completely.’

Keeravaani’s ‘Naatu Naatu’, which features in Rajamouli’s magnum opus ‘RRR’, recently received a nomination at the 95th Academy Awards. It also won a Golden Globe award in the Best Original Song category.

MM Keeravaani has been an independent music composer since the early 1990s. He has composed for over 180 films across Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. In a recent interview with Reuters, he said that he had ‘full confidence in Oscar’.

He said, ‘Yeah, I can see the moment taking its root to the road high and higher, so all fingers crossed and I have full confidence in Oscar too’.

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