Rangasthalam has all the right elements to make it a Oscar Entry. If the movie is able to cross the political hurdles of the nominating committee, then this might win international recognition for Cherry.
It would have easily run for more days if producers had given it more importance. This also brings to the fore questions about Artistic Neutrality. “Bharat Ane Nenu†was given deliberately more theatres and more marketing muscle than RS. Caste Affiliation won over ARTISTIC Recognition.
Twitterati have suggested to Cherry to buy out the Producers and to dub it in other Indian and foreign languages. Chinese might lap it up since it is so colorful.
There are theatres where the movie is still running strong inspite of several other releases. Dull movies and dull actors are being promoted by some producers polarizing community links in the film industry.
Sukumar’s creation cannot be stopped and it will continue to win accolodes