India has been nominated for the Academy Award for International Film three times – which is quite impressive, even considering that the country produces around 1,600 films annually. Apart from sporadic nominations and wins (for example, the Honorary Award for Satyajit Ray), the country has been largely ignored by Academy voters. But that may change this year.
India is banking on two excellent feature films, ‘Last Film Show’ and ‘RRR’, as well as ‘All That Breathes’ by Chunak Sen, an eco-documentary about two Delhi brothers who rescue birds (released in the US respectively by Samuel Goldwyn, Variance Films and HBO.) SS Rajamouli was named Best Director of the Year by NY Film Critics for “RRR” and the film earned two Golden Globe nominations. “Last Film” won Best Picture at the Asian International Film Festival. And “Breathes” recently led the awards at Intel. Assn Documentary. ALMS, with four wins.
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‘Last Film Show’ is about a 9-year-old Samay in a small Indian village who falls in love with movies and befriends Fazil.
Writer-director Pan Nalin says the film is inspired in part by his projective friend, whose job became obsolete when digital films took over.
Nalin is amazed at the global reaction to the film. In addition to talking about the film, “audiences start telling me their own story about their relationship to the films,” he says. “For me, this is new, a lot of interaction with people in the industry and how people relate to it.”
Some fans online have tried to set up a competition between the two films, which is absurd since they are so different. ‘RRR’ by SS Rajamouli is an epic set in the 1920s, when colonial India fought against British rule. It features action, shooting, romance, romance, musical numbers, and wild animals. (The title means Rise. Roar. Revolt.)
Many western films, Rajamouli notes, “try to imbue the whole movie with one flavor. As an Indian filmmaker, we put multiple flavors into the story. But they’re not all drowned out together, it’s a kind of choreography—one flavor floating over another. And in the end, you’re overwhelmed.” In a lot of flavours.”
This is Rajamouli’s twelfth film and they are all grossers. Did he know this was special?
“Every time a movie is about to go to audiences, I think all the filmmakers are completely dazed, they lose all sense. We lose all sense of judgment and look for an audience to tell us how good or bad it is. And it’s nice when people respond so well.”
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