Wasn’t ‘Missing Ladies’ a better choice?
The jury panel of Film Federation of India (FFI) has selected Kiran Rao’s ‘Missing Ladies’ for the Oscars 2025 out of 29 films. The film will be India’s official entry for the Oscars. Most people are happy that ‘Missing Ladies’ has been selected for the Oscars, but some say that not Missing Ladies but Payal Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine Is Light’, which showed its magic at the Cannes festival, is the right film for the Oscars 2025. . was We asked film experts a few questions about this, so let’s find out what they think about the whole thing.
Talking about the two films ‘Lapat Ladies’ and ‘All We Imagine Is Light’, a senior journalist said, “Both the films are good. But Payal Kapadia’s film ‘All We Imagine Is Light’ understands the international market. The film has already impressed international audiences at Cannes. Feminism portrayed in Indian films has always been appreciated in the western market, so ‘All We Imagine Is Light’ was a worthy Oscar.”
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Critic Aarti Saxena says ‘All We Imagine Is Light’ is a brilliant film. But this is an Indo-French film. Among the parameters decided by the jury panel this year, the most important was the ‘Indianness’ of the film, which is seen in Missing Ladies. But it does not appear in ‘All We Imagine Is Light’. One side where ‘Missing Women’ As anyone who has seen the film can see, ‘All We Imagine Is Light’ has a diverse audience, not everyone will like it.
If the makers of ‘All We Imagine Is Light’ think their film can win an Oscar, Payal Kapadia and his team can try their own way for the Oscars 2025. ‘All We Imagine Is Light’ could be submitted for an Oscar as a standalone nomination, as 12th Fail and RRR have also attempted before.
Bad decision
The selection of ‘Missing Ladies’ for Oscars 2025 despite a film like ‘All We Imagine Is Light’ is proof that the FFI jury cannot think beyond Hindi cinema or commercial cinema. In the year 2023, ‘Joan of Interest’ won the Oscar in the ‘Best International Feature’ category, but before winning the Oscar, it won the Grand Prix at Cannes, the same award that recently went to Payal Kapadia and his team. ‘All Got It’ to ‘We Imagine Is Light’. Today, cinema all over the world depends on international co-production, it shouldn’t matter who is making your film.
