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As part of Lincoln Center's Summer for the City program, free films are being shown at Damrosch Park.

In the summer of 2022, Telugu-language cinema was thrust into the American pop-cultural limelight thanks to the unprecedented box office success of RRR, S.S. Rajamouli’s 1920-set action blockbuster, which charts an imaginary friendship between real-life anti-colonial revolutionaries Komaram Bheem (N.T. Rama Rao, Jr.), a leader of India’s marginalized Gond tribe, and A. Rama Raju (Ram Charan), an officer of the Indian Imperial Police with mysterious personal objectives. Described in Film Comment as “preposterously entertaining,” the film toggles between registers, alternating the good-humored buoyancy and warmth of a classic buddy comedy with the earnest emotional and metaphorical intensity of mythically inflected melodrama. Rajamouli expertly deploys these tonal dynamics in service of an extraordinary cinematic spectacle, which dazzles on the big screen thanks to its sweeping, inventively choreographed and masterfully edited action sequences—plus the showstopping dance number “Naatu Naatu,” for which composer M.M. Keeravani became the first Indian artist to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Information about ticketing:

• Reserve in advance through Fast Track: Your Fast Track tickets get you priority entry into the venue up until 10 minutes before showtime. So please arrive on time to secure your seat! Fast Track closes at 3:00 pm the day of the show, or when Fast Track tickets are all booked—whichever comes first.

• Just show up: Entrance to Damrosch Park is located at 62nd Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus. Note: for many performances, the line may extend down 62nd Street, toward Amsterdam. Ticket gates open generally 1 hour before showtime.

• More information here.