New Delhi:
Laapataa Ladies is India’s entry for 2025 Oscars underneath International Movie Class, introduced Movie Federation of India on Monday. Movie Federation of India Chairman Jahnu Barua introduced the information. The movie has been chosen from all India nominations of 12 Hindi movies, 6 Tamil and 4 Malayalam movies. The jury has been led by 13 members this yr. The movie was contending alongside 29 movie together with names similar to Animal, Kill, Kalki 2898 AD, Srikanth, Chandu Champion, Joram, Maidaan, Sam Bahadur, Article 370, the Malayalam movie Aattam, which received the Nationwide Award for Greatest Function Movie this yr and Payal Kapadia’s All We Think about As Gentle, a Cannes winner. Laapataa Women is directed by Kiran Rao and produced by Kiran Rao, Aamir Khan, Jyoti Deshpande. The movie had a contemporary bunch of faces. Nitanshi Goel, Pratibha Ranta, Sparsh Shrivastav, Chhaya Kadam, Ravi Kishan featured within the movie.
Laapataa Ladies relies on an award-winning story by Biplab Goswami. The screenplay and dialogue are written by Sneha Desai, whereas Divyanidhi Sharma has taken care of the extra dialogues. Laapataa Women had a screening on the prestigious Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition (TIFF) final yr. The movie was launched in theatres in India on March 1. The movie has been applauded by critics and audiences alike. Regardless of not minting a whopping sum of money on the field workplace, the movie garnered a brand new fanbase after it was launched on the streaming large Netflix.
Earlier this month, Kiran Rao shared a snippet from the movie on social media and he or she captioned it, “Laapataa Women will probably be present in Japan from October 4, 2024. We’re so excited for our theatrical launch in Japan by Shochiku, Japan – arigato gozaimasu.” The movie is a take in opposition to the patriarchal shackles which are likely to bind girls’s aspirations and desires throughout the 4 partitions of domesticity.
The film opened to largely positive reviews from movie critics. In his evaluation for NDTV, movie critic Saibal Chatterjee gave Laapataa Women 3.5 stars out of 5 and he wrote, “Tailored from a narrative by Biplab Goswami and scripted by Sneha Desai (who has additionally written the dialogues with further inputs from Divyanidhi Sharma), Laapataa Women is a social satire with a pronounced feminist accent that offers the movie its rationale. The movie is breezy and light-weight on its ft. It’s by no means, due to this fact, in peril of being slowed down by the weighty points that it addresses. Its easy clarion name is in favour of the rights of ladies who’re robbed of their desires post-marriage and it’s couched in easy strategies that don’t search to attract an excessive amount of consideration to themselves.”