History Film / RRR2022

''RRR'' (''Raudraṁ Raṇaṁ Rudhiraṁ''[[note]]Rage, War, Blood[[/note]], or ''Rise, Roar, Revolt'' in English) is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language[[note]]dubs in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam were also made[[/note]] action epic directed by [[Creator/SSRajamouli S.S. Rajamouli]], director of the ''Film/{{Baahubali}}'' films, starring [[Creator/NTRamaRaoJr N.T. Rama Rao Jr.]], Creator/RamCharan, Creator/AliaBhatt, Creator/AjayDevgn, Creator/RayStevenson, Creator/AlisonDoody and Creator/OliviaMorris.

* WhamLine: Bheem spends an afternoon shopping with Jenny at a market and notices her buying things meant for a child. She then confirms she's looking after a girl, '''Malli'''.

* GoodTimesMontage: After saving the boy from the river, Bheem and Ram are shown becoming fast friends through a montage. The scene is fun and heartwarming, but there's also an undercurrent of tension throughout the whole montage, [[DramaticIrony as neither man knows that the other is actually his enemy.]] There is also another uncurrent of tension Ho Yay indeed.

* GoodTimesMontage: After saving the boy from the river, Bheem and Ram are shown becoming fast friends through a montage. The scene is fun and heartwarming, but there's also an undercurrent of tension throughout the whole montage, [[DramaticIrony as neither man knows that the other is actually his enemy.]] There is also another uncurrent of tension [[Ho Yay]] indeed.

* GoodTimesMontage: After saving the boy from the river, Bheem and Ram are shown becoming fast friends through a montage. The scene is fun and heartwarming, but there's also an undercurrent of tension throughout the whole montage, [[DramaticIrony as neither man knows that the other is actually his enemy.]]

* Ho Yay: The relationship between Ram and Bheem is such an extreme example of this trope, that the film has been reintrepreted as a gay romance by many audiences.

* WomenAreWiser: With the exception of Catherine Buxton, all the female British ladies are kindly to our protagonists, while every British man is a villain. And while there are numerous Indian [[LesCollaborateurs collaborators]], none of them are women.
* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Governor Scott and his wife may ruthless, bloodthirsty people who despise Indians in general but even they give credit to Ram and are willing to promote him to a commanding position if he captures Bheem. When Ram suggests [[spoiler:executing Bheem in front of Malli]], Scott even compliments him, saying that he has "learned the ways of the empire".
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: You get the feeling Ram, who has been considered a race traitor by his countrymen throughout the film, experiences embarrassment when Governor Scott compliments him for his suggestion to [[spoiler:execute Bheem]].

** The movie starts with Mali doing hand painting for Lady Buxton who's so impressed by this that she steals her. [[spoiler:When Lady Buxton dies, the first shot of her corpse is her painted hand]].

* ChainPain: During Bheem's attack in Governor Scott Buxton's party, one of the officers tries to attack Bheem with a chain, to little effect. When Raj comes to arrest him, an enraged Bheem takes a chain of his own to fight, using it as a particuarly deadly EpicFlail.

** Both Ram and Bheem are introduced in scenes that establish them as very competent fighters: Ram fighting through a crowd to arrest a man, and Bheem capturing a tiger. It also shows [[RedOniBlueOni their differences:]] Ram fights alone, stone-faced and brutally efficient, while Bheem is cooperating with a team, looks a lot more like he's desperately improvising, and [[ApologeticAttacker apologises to the tiger for trapping it.]]

* WhamLine: Bheem spends an afternoon shopping with Jenny at a market and notices her buying things meant for a child. She then confirms she's looking after a girl, "'''Malli''':.

** In Jenny's first scene, she scolds a British guardsman for abuse against an Indian man. This establishes her as a kind and open-hearted EnglishRose, in contrast to the rest of the violent colonialists.

* HateSink: The British Raj is played up to be as vile as humanly possible; with the exception of [[TokenGoodTeammate Jenny]], they're all violently racist, authoritarian, sadistic, and every other flavor of evil. Even the heroes weren't present, you'd be rooting against them anyway.

* AssholeVictime: Almost every British soldier and authority figure with spoken dialogue is the most heinous character in the film, which makes it difficult to pity them when our heroes beat, shoot or explode any of them.

** Bheem falls in LoveAtFirstSight with Jenny, well before he learned that she's staying at the same place where Malli was held.
** While on the run from authorities, Bheem and Malli run into [[spoiler:Ram's fiancee Sita]] at a camp. She tells them all about [[spoiler:Ram's revolutionary background, which is what causes Bheem to return and free Ram.]]

* EvilColonialist: [[EvilBrit Nearly all of the English characters are portrayed this way]], but especially Scott and Catherine Buxton, who are openly racist and shown no care for the humanity of the people of India. In the movie's opening scene, Catherine casually buys a child from a village for two coins and shows nothing but annoyance and near-boredom when her tearful mother desperately pleads for her back. It is in this scene that Scott Buxton also drops the "do you know how much the bullet in your gun cost?" speech that forms the strong anti-colonialist backbone of the movie.

* GoodTimesMontage: After saving the boy from the river Bheem and Ram are shown becoming fast friends through a montage. The scene is fun and heartwarming, but there's also an undercurrent of tension throughout the whole montage, [[DramaticIrony as neither man knows that the other is actually his enemy.]]

** Bheem thinks [[spoiler:Ram is trying to shoot him when Ram was aiming at the soldier trying to kill Bheem]].

* HeroicVow: [[spoiler:Ram is revealed to have made one to his father as a child, promising to deliver guns to the rebellion against the British. It's the reason why he has infiltrated the ranks of the British. When he does get the chance to get a weapons shipment, he lets it go to rescue Bheem; thankfully, however, during the attack on the Governor's palace, Bheem manages to retrieve a cache and gives them to him.]] Later, Bheem makes one to [[spoiler:Sita when he learns of Ram's impending execution, vowing that he will bring him back to her.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Bheem and Ram basically become joined at the hip after saving the boy from the river. Bheem outright calls Ram his "chosen brother". It's majorly strained when Ram is forced to apprehend Bheem, [[spoiler:but they immediately go back to being best friends after Ram's fiancee reveals Ram's motivations and past.]]

* KneelBeforeZod: After [[spoiler:Bheem is arrested and set up for a public flogging]] the EvilColonialist Buxtons repeatedly express a desire to see him kneel to the British crown and are disappointed and enraged when he continues to find the willpower to keep his knees from touching the ground, even when they bust out a spiked whip.

* YourApprovalFillsMewithShame: You get the feeling Ram, who has been considered a race traitor by his countrymen throughout the film, experiences embarrassment when Governor Scott compliments him for his suggestion to [[spoiler:execute Bheem]].

It is a HistoricalFiction AlternateHistory based on the real-life Indian freedom fighters [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluri_Sitarama_Raju Alluri Sitarama Raju]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komaram_Bheem Komaram Bheem]], positing a WhatIf scenario where the two men met during UsefulNotes/TheRaj: the 89-year colonization of the Indian subcontinent by the British Empire. The story starts in 1920 when the cruel British governor Scott Buxton abducts a young Indian girl named Malli from her rural tribe on the whim of his wife, who enjoyed Malli's singing. The tribe's guardian, Komaram Bheem, is enraged by this act and vows to rescue Malli from her captivity at Buxton's stronghold in Delhi.

* WasItAllaLie: There are shades of this when Bheem finds out Ram is a policeman. First he desperately begs him to let him save Malli, and then asks, "You're one of us, aren't you?"

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:After Bheem is captured, Ram's backstory and true status as TheMole is revealed in full, showing that he has an [[ItsPersonal extremely personal reason]] to go as [[FightingYourFriend far as he has]] in hopes of eventually forcing the British army out of India. That said, throughout the film, he never kills a single named British character, and it's instead Bheem, who doesn't have ''quite'' as intimate a hatred of the British, who takes them out. The closest Ram gets is passing Bheem a bullet and instructing him on how to load, aim and shoot a British rifle to take out Governor Scott]].

* DemotedToExtra: Jenny serves as a decently important character for the first half of the story, both as someone Bheem starts crushing on and as a way to get inside the Governor's manor to find Malli. After the intermission, she only shows up very briefly [[spoiler:to tell Bheem where Ram is being imprisoned, and then briefly during the ending. She also appears in the credits dance number for a little bit as well.]]

* ShipTease: Though nothing comes of it onscreen, Bheem and Jenny seem to be mutually attracted to each other even though they don't speak each other's languages.