Subhash K Jha reveals Academy Award nominee contenders

2 States, Ram Leela, Yellow Top Contenders For Oscar Nomination

The potential Oscars contenders from India this year in the Best Foreign Language category seem to have gone commercial with a vengeance. Last year Anurag Kashyap created an ugly hungama over the selection Gyan Correa's Gujarati drama The Good Road instead of Ritesh Batra's The Lunchbox.

This year, the films that are up as contenders as India's official entry to the Oscars include two big Hindi blockbusters, the film adaptation of Chetan Bhagat's 2 States. Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Goliyon Ki Raas Leela Ram Leela. Curiously, two of Hansal Mehta's films Shahid and Citylights are both contenders to represent us at the Oscars.

Even more significantly there are three Marathi films in the reckoning, namely Mahesh Limaye's Yellow, Nagraj Manjule's Fandry and Srihari Sathe's Ek Hazarchi Note.

There is also the one Bengali film, the very powerful Jaatishwar, the bio-pic of the Portuguese poet Hensman Anthony who wrote poetry in Bengali with Prosenjit in a National award winning performance.

A source the selecting committee said, "The films in race to represent the Oscars are varied and very very Indian. Any of them could represent India."

However sources say the most likely contenders are Hansal Mehta's Shahid and Srijit Mukherjee's Jaatishwar.

"These two films contain very strong elements of the Indian ethos. They are Indian in theme and can only be Indian in theme. The three Marathi films are also very strong in terms of theme and performances."

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http://skjbollywoodnews.com/2014/08/2-states-ram-leela-yellow-top-contenders-oscar-nomination/4121497.html

2 states and ramleela for oscar ? u gotta kidding me it will not even be in first round 😆

2 States ...Ram Leela...is this a joke? 😆

why omit jai ho n yaariyaan...

Both 2 States and Ram Leela will not enter the second round (now thats different case if selection team is yearning to have a film that showcases what BW is about ...in other words RL)

WHAT????

Let me just go and puke!

I dont understand why they only look at hindi films when there are other films from other different laguages that are much better than these crappy films.
Punjab 1984 could have been taken into consideration.

sad that they don't even consider content nowadays...

Originally posted by: lovanika

WHAT????

Not sure if the earth, vintage, colorful look of Ramleela would do it for the Oscar guys...but one never know..

But 2 States??

please stop this fervent adulation of your favourite celebs; ramleela sucks adn will go beyond first round like 2 states. I mean you are one cray fan who just cant hear anything against them.