Eklavya is nominated for Oscar Awards

Eklavya , the Hindi feature film depicting a violent family saga starring Bollywood mega superstar Amitabh Bachchan , has been nominated as India’s official entry for Oscar award for the best foreign movie category.

This is the third time that a film by Vidhu Vinod Chopra will be going to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His short non-fiction film ‘An Encounter with Faces’ was one of the first Indian films to be nominated for an Oscar in 1980. In 1989, ‘Parinda’ was sent to the Oscars as India’s official entry.

Pahlaj Nihalani, President of Association of Motion Pictures and TV Programmes which selects the entry, said “Yes it is true that Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s ‘Eklavya’ has been selected as India’s official entry to the Oscars.”

However, Nihalani was peeved with the jury for selecting a film “rejected by Indian masses”. “It is disgraceful that the jury has selected a movie for the Oscars which has been rejected by the people. I don’t see any logic behind selecting this movie when there were other deserving movies like Chak De India ,” he said.

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