Akshay Kumar in ‘Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue’
Akshay Kumar’s new movie, Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue, has been submitted as an independent entry to the 2024 Oscars, reviews acknowledged.
Inspired by a real story, the movie depicts the bravery and ingenuity of a mining engineer who saved 65 miners trapped in a flooded quarry in West Bengal in 1989. It opened to combined critiques on October 6 and has carried out reasonably on the field workplace.
Last month, the Film Federation of India (FFI) named the Malayalam survival drama 2018: Everyone is a Hero starring Tovino Thomas as India’s official entry to the Best International Feature Film class on the 96th Academy Awards.
According to the Academy’s guidelines, just one movie is accepted on this class from a single nation, and has to be submitted by a licensed committee or jury.
However, producers of non-English movies are free to file submissions for different honours on the Oscars, contemplating they meet the eligibility standards. In reality, on the 95th Academy Awards, SS Rajamouli’s Telugu blockbuster RRR was entered as an independent submission and ended up successful for Best Original Song.