The young Tiger Jr NTR who is currently basking in the glory of his previous offering RRR helmed by SS Rajamouli, has been in the global limelight after the pan India movie’s wins at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards. Now, the website of the influential American publication ‘USA Today’ has shortlisted Jr NTR as one of the hottest contenders for the Best Actor Oscar for RRR.
USA Today has predicted that Jr NTR’ Komaram Bheem performance in Rajamouli’ directorial venture RRR will not go unnoticed by the Academy when it gets down to voting for the shortlists.
We have already reported that few weeks ago, Jr NTR’ name was also mentioned among their unranked predictions for the 2023 Academy Awards, and now ‘USA Today’ has predicted that the Telugu star as the nominees for Best Actor.
Rajamouli’ directorial venture RRR, bankrolled by DVV Danayya, follows a pre-Independence fictional story woven around two real-life Indian revolutionaries , Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem in the 1920s, has been making the world go crazy after its story line and the music which is composed by MM Keeravaani.
On the work front, soon Jr NTR will join the sets of his upcoming 30th and as-yet-untitled film, now only known as NTR30, directed by Koratala Siva of Bharat Ane Nenu fame. He also has NTR31 on the cards which will be helmed by Prashanth Neel.