This 12 months’s nominations for the ninety fifth annual Academy Awards have been introduced just lately, the place SS Rajamouli‘s Telugu movie RRR gained a nomination for its musical quantity Naatu Naatu within the Best Original Song class. The track composed by MM Keeravani has impressed audiences to actually dance within the aisles of theaters the place it performed, and even Anupam Kher is a fan. In a brand new interview, the veteran actor not solely praised RRR and its track Naatu Naatu, but additionally spoke about The Kashmir Files directed by Vivek Agnihotri, which is out of the Oscars 2023 race now. Also learn: Fans have a good time RRR’s Oscar nomination, ask Vivek Agnihotri ‘the place is The Kashmir Files?’
Earlier, a number of movies from India had made it to the record of 301 movies, which have been eligible for nominations at Oscar 2023, together with Alia Bhatt-starrer Gangubai Kathiawadi and Rishab Shetty’s Kannada movie Kantara. Anupam Kher-starrer The Kashmir Files was additionally included within the record. Now, Anupam has opened up about his movie not being given a nod within the Oscar nominations, and likewise the super love RRR has obtained all through the awards season in Hollywood, to date.
Speaking about RRR track Naatu Naatu and about what probably prevented his movie The Kashmir Files from getting an Oscar nomination, the actor instructed Brut India, “If now RRR has won Critics Choice award, and RRR has won the best song at Golden Globes, it is the greatest feeling for Indian cinema. Why should (we) not we celebrate? So, there must be obviously some problem with The Kashmir Files. I am the first person, who sort of tweeted that because I genuinely felt ‘wow the song Naatu Naatu, the whole crowd is dancing on that’. Because till now whatever films that they (western audiences) acknowledged were about poverty of Indians, about some foreigner, who has made a film, whether it is Richard Attenborough or Danny Boyle about Indians (but from a Western outlook). This is the first time a Hindustani film or Telugu film or whatever, an Indian film, has entered the mainstream of cinema.”
Earlier on January 24, after the Oscar 2023 nominations have been introduced, congratulating all the crew of RRR, Anupam Kher had instructed news company ANI, “It’s the greatest news for the Indian cinema. A song from an original Indian cinema has been chosen. I hope this song will win the (Oscars) trophy in this category.” Apart from RRR, All That Breathes and The Elephant Whisperers have additionally been nominated within the Best Documentary Feature Film and Best Documentary Short Film classes, respectively, for the upcoming Oscars. The ninety fifth Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled to happen on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 12, 2023.