ss rajamoulis rrr left a lasting impact on the film industry and the world at large if you ask rafael casal actor of the acclaimed series blindspotting he would agree ahead of the release of season two of the lionsgate play series the actor in an exclusive chat with etimes recalled his time at the chinese theatre with screaming fans watching the largerthanlife film play out on the big screen read alsoss rajamouli not invited to be member of the academy fans say list is incomplete without youseveral fans of director ss rajamouli felt sad after his name was not included on the list for being invited to be a member of the academyss rajamouli responds gracefully to academy snub jr ntr expresses gratitudess rajamouli has responded to his exclusion from the list of academy members while expressing his congratulations to those who were invited the academy recently released its list of new members which included several indians but rajamoulis name was noticeably absent despite this apparent snubwhen asked if he was a fan of indian cinema or had a favourite desi actor rafal said oh sure i am but youre putting me on the spotbut i will say i am really excited to see that american audiences are experiencing this he said and explained because i just dont think people were aware of how incredibly largescale stories from other parts of the world are americas kind of terrible at thisrecalling his aweinspiring time watching the jr ntr and ram charan starrer on the big screen he said in rrr there was just a bit of history in that film that was really exciting for me so i went to the chinese theatre and just watched a room of 500600 people watch that movie and scream and have the director come and talk about the process and i was like wow thats really cool i did find it really inspiring to go like oh man i think were going to have an international movie renaissance in the states soon where people stop worrying about whether or not it came out of hollywoodspeaking about the impact of indian cinema on the world he added theyre going to start taking movies from all over the world and so thats the first movie that comes to mind where im like that feels like a bit of a game changer for us as a countryblindspotting is a spinoff series based on the 2018 film of the same name the series features rafael casal daveed diggs jasmine cephas jones benjamin earl turner atticus woodward and jaylen barron