With Aamir Khan-Kiran Rao’s ‘Laapataa Girls’ out of the race, all eyes on Guneet Monga to deliver the Academy a 3rd time – Firstpost

India’s hopes on the 2025 Oscars now relaxation on Anuja, a live-action quick movie produced by Guneet Monga, after Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Girls didn’t make it to the following spherical within the Worldwide Function Movie class. On Tuesday, the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences introduced the shortlists for 10 classes for the upcoming 97th Academy Awards.

Laapataa Girls, which was India’s official entry for the Greatest Worldwide Function Movie class, couldn’t advance additional, leaving many followers and filmmakers disillusioned.

Nevertheless, India nonetheless has a motive to hope. Monga’s Anuja has been shortlisted within the Greatest Reside-Motion Quick Movie class. The movie sheds gentle on the essential difficulty of kid labour within the garment trade and options actor Nagesh Bhonsle in a key position.

That is Monga’s third nomination on the Oscars. Her earlier initiatives, The Elephant Whisperers and Interval: Finish of Sentence, received Oscars, bringing glory to Indian cinema.
Aside from Anuja, one other movie that is still within the Oscars race is ‘Santosh’, a British-Indian movie directed by Sandhya Suri. That includes actor Shahana Goswami, Santosh is the UK’s official entry for the Oscars. The movie premiered earlier this 12 months within the Un Sure Regard part on the Cannes Movie Competition.
The Academy of Movement Photos Arts and Sciences introduced 30 shortlisted movies in competition for the Greatest Reside Motion Quick and Greatest Animated Quick Oscar classes. Another shortlisted contenders embody Clodagh, The Compatriot, Crust, Dovecote, Fringe of Area, and The Ice Cream Man.

Kiran Rao’s directorial and Aamir Khan’s manufacturing enterprise Laapataa Girls, which was India’s official submission for the Greatest Worldwide Function class, is out of the Oscars 2025 race. The Academy introduced the movies shortlisted within the class on Tuesday and Laapataa Girls didn’t make it to the minimize.

In a press release, Aamir Khan Productions stated, “Laapataa Girls (Misplaced Girls) didn’t make it to the Academy Awards shortlist this 12 months, and we’re in fact disillusioned, however equally we’re immensely grateful for the unimaginable help and perception we’ve acquired all through this journey.”

With added inputs from companies