Should Rajamouli’s RRR have gone as India’s entry at the Oscars? The sprawling mass of the film’s and Rajamouli’s fans seem to think so.
However T P. Aggarwal, President of the Film Federation of India which selects India’s Oscar entry each year, thinks the controversy is completely uncalled for. “Have those questioning the jury’s decision seen the film we’ve chosen? No? Then how do they know that another film was more deserving.With due respects to all the other films in the race including Rajamouli’s RRR, there was no debate on which film should go to the Oscars this year. Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show was the unanimous choice. Rather than celebrate an outstanding film why is this unnecessary controversy being created?”
Interestingly the other names that were up for consideration as Oscar entries were the Tamil film Iravin Nizhal, Rocketry(Hindi,Tamil), Ariyippu(Malayalam), The Kashmir Files(Hindi), Badhai Do(Hindi), RRR(Telugu), Jhund(Hindi), Brahmastra(Hindi), Aparajito(Bengali),Anek(Hindi), Semkhor(Dimasa).
While some of these films were released in 2021,others were released this year. Brahmastra was release just a month ago. The timeline for the entries is somewhat befuddling.
