Wednesday, September 27, 2006

India's official entry for the 79th Annual Academy Awards II

Anyways, now that Rang De Basanti has been nominated as India’s official entry to the 79th Annual Academy Awards, I feel that it has a good chance of making it to the final five. The main reason for it in my view is that the movie would be able to stand on its own keeping in mind the theme of the film and its relevance in today’s time.

Further, the presence of Aamir Khan in the film should ring a bell for the jury members as Aamir Khan was in the United States of America in the year 2002 when his film Lagaan was nominated as India’s entry to the Annual Academy Awards and was in fact nominated in as one of the five films in the Best Foreign Film category. The previous occasions when Indian films were nominated at the Annual Academy Awards were Mehboob Khan’s Mother India and Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay. Interestingly, Deepa Mehta’s “Water” is Canada’s official entry for the 79th Annual Academy Awards.

Here is wishing Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra, Aamir Khan, Ronnie Screwala and the rest of the team of Rang De Basanti all the very best and hope that they manage to bring Indian cinema on the world map.

8 comments:

Parth said...

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pappupager said...

Thanks Parth. Likewise, even I enjoyed reading your blogs. I will add the link to your blog to mine so that I can catch up on your blogs from time to time.

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MP said...

Hi Pappupager, thanks for ur interest in my blog. i can mail u the HTML code to add my link to ur blog, can u give me an email id pls?

regards, BollyBitch

MP said...

thanks Pappu :-) real nice of you. i love the reviews you have written on ur blog. keep it up! next thing you ought to do - join the Bollywood Bloggers network - http://bollywoodblogsnetwork.blogspot.com/

MP said...

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pappupager said...

Hey BollyBitch,

Many thanks for your suggestion about Bollywood Blogger's Network. I have already written to the email id that you gave me. Hoping to be a part of the network of people who are nuts about Bollywood.

DJ said...

I've sent you an invitation Pappu. Would be great to have you aboard. Keep up the good work.

pappupager said...

Hey DJ,

Many thanks for the invite. I've joined up the network. Thanks once again.