Kiran Rao’s piquant Laapataa Ladies has been chosen as India’s official submission to Oscars 2025. The announcement was made by the jury of the Movie Federation of India (FFI), the apex physique that yearly selects the Indian official entry for the Academy Award for Greatest Worldwide Characteristic Movie, on Monday, September 23.
In its quotation, the FFI jury stated, “Indian girls are a wierd combination of submission and dominance. Effectively-defined, highly effective characters in a single world, Laapataa Girls (Hindi) captures this range completely, although in a semi-idyllic world and in a tongue-and-cheek method. It exhibits you that ladies can fortunately need to be dwelling makers in addition to insurgent and be entrepreneurially inclined. A narrative that may concurrently be seen as one which wants change, and one that may result in change. Laapataa Girls (Hindi) is a movie that may interact, entertain and make sense not simply to girls in India however universally as effectively.”
Launched in theatres in March, Laapataa Girls is Rao’s sophomore directorial after the acclaimed Dhobi Ghat (2011). The satirical comedy-drama tells the story of a younger man whose bride will get by chance swapped with another person’s. The movie stars Sparsh Shrivastava together with Nitanshi Goel, Pratibha Ranta, Chhaya Kadam and Ravi Kishan.
Produced by Jio Studios, Aamir Khan Productions and Kindling Footage, Laapataa Girls had its world premiere on the 2023 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant. It launched in Indian theatres in March this yr and is presently streaming on Netflix.
This yr, Payal Kapadia’s Cannes-winning All We Think about as Mild and the acclaimed Malayalam drama Aattam have been additionally within the working for Oscars choice amongst others, however didn’t get picked. India was final nominated for Greatest Worldwide Characteristic on the Academy Awards for Lagaan (2001).
The 97th Academy Awards are scheduled for 2025 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, US.
Printed – September 23, 2024 01:18 pm IST