The secret sauce behind Naatu Naatu

First a Golden Globe, now an Oscar, Naatu Naatu continues to grip global audiences.

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00:0018 takes for that step. It's actually very easy. But I don't know. It's him who's made

00:17it feel very tough.

00:18Not to not to not to not to not to not to not to not to feel a not to.

00:43Not to not to was getting globally. I was shocked.

01:13I just want to know how much time it took for you to practice that and the bond which

01:25because that's a quite a kind of tuning with the step. Was it so easy or tough?

01:29It was actually a very easy step. I'm not trying to tell you that's a very tough step.

01:33A very easy step. Yeah, just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. And that's it. No, no, it's actually

01:39very easy. But I don't know. It's it's it's it's him who's made it feel very tough. We

01:45were we were, you know, because of the pandemic, we couldn't shoot here in India. So he took

01:50us all the way to Kiev in Ukraine and tortured us there. I mean, 18 takes for that step purely

01:59because he just yeah, he wanted us to you know, like, he would sit in front of the monitor

02:05and step freeze the step so that the coordination, the sync between me and Charan is like, like

02:12on dot. I mean, how can you do it? I went up to him and said, see each, both of us have

02:17different styles of dancing. So as a director bring that style together. He's like, no,

02:22so that is my style. Because it was Rajmohli sir's style, it was his idea.

02:28Absolutely. So every day. Well, I don't know. Yeah, you know, even the weather was so you

02:35know, like, like, like we were very unlucky. The sun would set at eight in the night. I

02:38will rise at six in the morning. So eight ke baad, nau bhaje tak he would make us go

02:44through the rehearsal. Again, start off at six in the morning. So it's like, why did

02:48we do this rehearsal when you're automatically any which way is going to take 20 takes there.