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It is clip of the twelvemonth to peg each our hopes connected that ONE movie that mightiness yet interruption the long-standing hold to spot an Indian movie triumph an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. At an lawsuit successful Chennai, members of The Film Federation of India, the apex assemblage liable for selecting the authoritative introduction for the Best Foreign Film Category astatine the 97th Academy Awards, announced Laapataa Ladies arsenic India’s authoritative introduction to the Academy Awards. The movie was directed by Kiran Rao and produced by Aamir Khan. It starred Pratibha Ranta, Sparsh Srivastava and Nitanshi Goel.
The assemblage members were introduced to the media by Ravi Kottarakara, President, Film Federation of India.
Last year’s introduction was Jude Anthany Joseph’s film, 2018, which didn’t marque it to the shortlist of the 96th Academy Awards. However, India had a amended tally successful the 95th variation arsenic the Naatu Naatu song, from SS Rajamouli’s RRR, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Kartiki Gonzalves and Guneet Monga’s documentary, The Elephant Whisperers, won successful the class of Best Documentary (Short). We besides had Shaunak Sen’s All that Breathes marque it to the last database of Best Documentary Feature.
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The past Indian diagnostic movie to marque it to the last shortlist was Aamir Khan-Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan (2001), which mislaid to No Man’s Land successful the 74th Academy Awards.
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