,Laapataaa Ladies‘, India’s official entry to oscars 2025 crashed out of the race on Wednesday, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) introduced its shortlist for the Best International Feature Film class. Directed by Kiran Rao, the movie is a unusual comedy set in rural India and revolves across the chaos that ensues after two younger brides go lacking on a prepare journey. The movie was unable to seize the eye of the Academy voters and earn a spot on the shortlist together with different International options like ‘I’m Still Here’ (Brazil), ‘Universal Language’ (Canada), ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ (Germany), ‘Kneecap’ (Ireland), ‘Vermiglio’ (Italy), ‘Flow’ (Latvia) and ‘Dahomey’ (Senegal).
After ‘Laapataa Ladies’ didn’t make the lower, movie lovers and fans took to their social media handles to reignite the controversy surrounding the choice course of and slam. India’s Oscar choice committee for snubbing Payal Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine As LightThe movie which was allegedly snubbed because it was ‘not Indian sufficient’, had netizens slamming the ‘missed alternative’ at scoring a win on the awards present.
Social media platforms had been flooded with offended reactions from fans, with many arguing that ‘All We Imagine As Light’ had a stronger probability of breaking via on the Oscars attributable to its common themes and nuanced storytelling. “All We Imagine As Light had a direct path to an Oscar nod,” mentioned a fan in a tweet.
Grammy winner Ricky Kej took to his deal with to tweet, “So, the @TheAcademy Oscars shortlist is out. #LaapataaLadies is a very well made, entertaining movie (I enjoyed it), but was absolutely the wrong choice to represent India for the best #InternationalFeatureFilm category. When are we going to realize.. we are choosing the wrong films, and we should be winning. the #InternationalFeatureFilm category every year! Unfortunately we live in a “Mainstream Bollywood” bubble, where we cannot look beyond films that we ourselves find entertaining. Instead we should just look for good films made by film-makers who are uncompromising in their art. .low budget or no star..just great artistic cinema, I am sure most academy voting members dismissed the film just by looking at these.”
“Not a surprise Laapataa Ladies (which I adored) failed to make the shortlist. Missed opportunity,” mentioned one other.
Another slammed the choice committee saying, “In a perfect world, India submitted All We Imagine As Light over Laapataa Ladies and it made the shortlist. Alas, we’re in the world that makes dumb decisions. Seriously, way to sabotage yourselves, guys .”
“Lol. Laapataa Ladies out! Maybe the Academy didn’t find it very Indian like how our committee didn’t find AWAIL as very Indian,” mentioned one other.
“Blame the Indian Oscar committee for picking another movie instead All We Imagine as Light,” wrote one other.
Another pointed out the movie’s success at current awards saying, “All we imagine as light” was deserving.. already chosen in critics alternative and golden globe.”
Another called out the recurring pattern of the Indian selection committee of dissing popular films, thus losing out on the Oscar race. “Indian Oscar committee at all times does that. At least for now, 4 occasions India rejected a straightforward nominee The Lunchbox, The Disciple, RRR and now All We Imagine as Light.”
The Payal Kapadia movie delves into the lives of two migrant ladies in a gritty exploration of loneliness and resilience.
While India’s journey on the Oscars this 12 months has come to an abrupt halt, one other shock was in retailer when the United Kingdom’s Hindi-language movie ‘Santosh‘earned a spot on the shortlist. Directed by Sandhya Surithe movie is a few younger Hindu widow who inherits her husband’s job as a police constable and finds herself caught up in institutional corruption whereas investigating a brutal homicide case involving a teenage Dalit woman.
