By | Tuesday, 18 Dec, 2018

Oscars 2019: Rima Das’ Village Rockstars, India’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film, out of race

India's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars 2018, Village Rockstars, is out of the race for the honour, as is Iram Haq's Norwegian drama What Will People Say, starring..... Read more...

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By | Tuesday, 18 Dec, 2018

Oscars 2019: Period. End of Sentence, rural India-set drama around menstruation, shortlisted

Period. End of Sentence, a film about women in India fighting against the deeply rooted stigma of menstruation and delving upon the work of real-life Pad Man Arunachalam Muruganathan, has made it to the Oscar..... Read more...

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By | Monday, 24 Sep, 2018

Filmmaker Rima Das urges Indian government to back Village Rockstars in Oscars race

After causing quite a stir, the Film Federation of India (FFI) on September 22 announced Rima Das' independent film Village Rockstars as India's official entry to Oscars in the Best Foreign Language film category. The decision came as a..... Read more...

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By | Monday, 24 Sep, 2018

Irrfan Khan’s Doob: No Bed of Roses heads to Oscars as the official entry of Bangladesh

Irrfan Khan, who starred in and co-produced prominent Bangladeshi director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s 2017 drama Doob: No Bed of Roses, has a reason to celebrate as his bilingual film is a contender in the foreign..... Read more...

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By | Saturday, 22 Sep, 2018

Rima Das' Village Rockstars marks India's official entry to Oscars 2019

The nominations for the 91st Academy Awards 2019 in the foreign language category has been causing quite the stir for a past couple days. Earlier, reports suggested that Bollywood blockbusters like Raazi, Padmaavat, Newton, and October were..... Read more...

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By | Wednesday, 05 Sep, 2018

English Vinglish actor Adil Hussain’s film is Norway’s official entry for Oscars 2019

Actor Adil Hussain won the Best Actor award at the Amanda Award or the Norwegian National Awards recently. It is the Scandinavian country’s top national film honour. Adil won the award for the film What..... Read more...

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By | Tuesday, 26 Jun, 2018

SRK, Madhuri, Anil, Manish Malhotra and 20 Indians have been invited to join the Oscars Academy

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has made a record-breaking number of invites to new members last night. This year 928 artists and executives have been invited to join the prestigious Academy Awards..... Read more...

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By | Thursday, 24 May, 2018

After Oscars and Cannes, BRICS posthumously honours Sridevi

In yet another moment of pride and overflow of emotions for the Kapoors, late veteran actor Sridevi was posthumously honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Indian Cinema by BRICS, reports a leading daily. The..... Read more...

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