I'm especially proud of and happy for Zoya! Gully Boy is her (Tiger) baby, and I am blessed to have been a part of her maverick vision," the actor said. “I'm very happy that the passionate hard work that our cast and crew put into creating Gully Boy is reaping rewards. As always, I will keep striving towards making the flag of Hindi cinema fly high," Ranveer said in a statement here. "Gully Boy echoed the voice of the streets, it will always be one of my most personal films. The film, produced by Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar, features Ranveer as an up-and-coming rapper who sets out to achieve his dreams by rhyming about his life on the Mumbai streets. Zoya Akhtar may deny it until she goes blue in the face, but. (Photo: Varinder Chawla) The world is shrinking and one has to compete with the best, says director Zoya Akhtar as she gears up for Gully Boy’s Oscar campaign. While the film was among the best of the year, it is also derivative. Director Zoya Akhtar says Gully Boy is her attempt to look at the class system in India. My first web show 'Inside Edge' got nominated at the Emmys last year and now my first film is going to the Oscars!! It's a special moment! It is all about Zoya (Akhtar) ma'am's genius, Ranveer Singh's uplifting bromance, and (producers) Ritesh Sidhwani and (Farhan Akhtar) sir's mentorship! Credit goes to the the whole crew."Īctor Ranveer Singh said on Saturday that he was thrilled that Zoya Akhtar-directed Gully Boy has beenselected as India's official entry at the Oscars. Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy has been booted out of the Oscar race. Siddhant Chaturvedi who rose to fame playing MC Sher is above the moon. The originality bit however remains somewhat questionable as similarities between Gully Boy and Hollywood films such as 'Straight Outta Compton' and '8 Mile' have not gone unnoticed. As long as people like Aparna Sen remain eligible to decide which Indian films should be sent for the Oscars, forget winning an Oscar, India won’t be able to get a nomination at the same as well.Aparna Sen, the chairperson of the committee that selected India's entry this year, was apparently impressed with the film's originality, vivacity and motivational mood. In such a situation, the way Aparna Sen has kept her personal agenda above everything else by bypassing the best films of the year, is harmful not only for the country but also for Indian cinema. Interestingly, Gautam Ghose is also among the 49 celebrities who wrote the controversial letter to PM Modi which reeked of selective outrage and met with criticism from Likewise, when everyone was confident that ‘The Lunchbox’ directed by Ritesh Batra would be nominated for the Oscars in 2013, the then chairman of the jury committee Gautam Ghose nominated a Gujarati film titled ‘The Good Road’.
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Similarly in 2006, when the question of sending nominations from India for the Oscars came up, ‘Eklavya’ was nominated, ignoring all the other good movies that were released that year. Mumbai, Dec 17 : As Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt-starrer Gully Boy - Indias official entry for the Oscars - was eliminated from the Oscars race, Twitter was abuzz with comments from movie buffs. In 1998, when everyone felt that ‘Satya’, directed by Ram Gopal Varma, would be sent for an Oscar, the jury surprised everyone by sending ‘Jeans’, an average Tamil comedy film to the same. However, this is not the first time that the Jury Committee selected Indian films for Oscars bypassing good films altogether. As such, selecting movies like ‘Gully Boy’ will only dent India’s image further. apnatimeaayega Thank you to the film federation and. GullyBoy has been selected as India’s official entry to the 92nd Oscar Awards. Moreover, India has never won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film till date, and has been nominated in this category only 3 times, which includes ‘Mother India’, ‘Salaam Bombay’ and ‘Lagaan’. 'Indias official entry for Oscars this year is Gully Boy. India has come away from the image of a backward nation, and to drag it back towards the same is nothing less than a criminal offence. In such a situation, the question is why Aparna Sen wants to present this negative image of India to the world? No amount of condemnation of Aparna Sen for this would ever be enough.