Director S. S. Rajamouli reflects on his career in this exclusive interview conducted at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.

“An S.S. Rajamouli Film”; so proclaims the distinctive credit stamp that typically punctuates the final frame ― with the velocity of a haymaker ― of the South Indian hitmaker’s films. It is a literal brand that, at least for Telugu-language audiences, has long been synonymous with spectacular action and tremendous emotion that embody themes from reincarnation to revenge, largely drawn from Indian mythology. But despite their cultural specificity, the audience for Rajamouli’s movies have only grown in their diversity. First across the whole of India and its myriad of regional industries (from Bollywood to Tollywood), and more recently, beyond the Indian diaspora audiences of international markets.

With his latest opus, the critically acclaimed period action epic RRR, now spearheading an ambitious awards campaign in the United States, TIFF Bell Lightbox invites you to discover the imaginative vision of S.S. Rajamouli. Specifically encompassing the films that defined his ascent from commercial entertainer to Pan-Indian mythmaker, this retrospective is thrilled to present six of his most beloved works in their native Telugu, and with their thrilling intermissions observed as the filmmaker originally intended.

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