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Melanie McFarland

Forget "Top Gun." "RRR" has it beat

Activists supporting the Kannada language tear down a poster of Telegu-language movie "RRR" in Bangalore on March 24, 2022, after a cinema theatre decision to stop the screaning of the Kannada movie "James" MANJUNATH KIRAN/AFP via Getty Images

No description of S. S. Rajamouli's action sequences in "RRR" could ruin the experience of seeing them for yourself. For example, telling you that N. T. Rama Rao Jr.'s hero Komaram Bheem swings a motorcycle over his head like it's a laundry bag full of dry socks sounds ludicrous. But by the time you see Bheem do it, you've come to accept this as part of an expansive range of his capabilities.

This scene occurs long after Ram Charan's Alluri Sitarama Raju has leaped into a raging crowd of workers, battling through its crush to seize a man his boss demands to be arrested. Calling it that, a battle, barely covers all the femur-fracturing and skull-crushing it takes for Raju to succeed in his task.

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