Not Ram Charan or Jr NTR, Lauren Gottlieb will be performing to ‘Naatu Naatu’ at the Oscars

Responding to Lauren’s post, her friends from Bollywood cheered for her. Vishal Dadlani took to the comments section, and wrote, “Whoa @laurengottlieb ! That’s big! 🤘🏽🤘🏽,” Meiyang Chang wrote, “Wooohoooooooooooo 🔥🔥🔥 Go Lauren.” Her fans also wrote words of appreciation for her. One comment read, “Yay!!! We’re so excited for you @laurengottlieb! I can’t wait to see your performance. Love seeing your beautiful face on Instagram again too. ♥️,” while another comment read, “WHAT!! No way!! Yesss Lauren huge congrats!! You don’t need luck, know you’ll smash it!! I am now excited for the Oscars.”

Apart from participating in the sixth season of the popular reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Ja, Lauren also acted in the 2013 film ABCD: Any Body Can Dance.

Before Lauren made the announcement that she’ll be dancing at the 95th Academy Awards, fans were demanding a performance by Jr NTR and Ram Charan. However, Jr NTR recently cleared the air. Speaking with KTLA, he said, “I don’t think that’s happening. I was looking forward for it to happen. But, unfortunately, we didn’t have time to rehearse. Because we don’t want to go on to the biggest stage in the world and go unprepared. So, we were busy, I was busy and so was maybe Charan busy with a lot of prior commitments back home. So, I don’t think we will be performing but our music director (MM) Keeravani, the singers of the song Rahul (Sipligunj), and my brother (Kaala) Bhairava, they will be performing the song. I think it will be nice for me to sit in the audience and watch the song because the moment I watch that clip, my legs have started aching all over again.”

“Naatu Naatu” from SS Rajamouli’s RRR has been composed by MM Keeravani. The film became a rage in the US after debuting on Netflix, leading to a successful awards run, and a recent theatrical re-release.