Bollywood filmmakers need to rise above the stereotype to aim at the global spotlight.
By D N Singh
South or Bollywood but Indian cinema has made itself to the global orbit of films but hard luck for some like All that Breathes, where three brothers devote themselves to treat the black kites falling from the chocking and polluted skies although won accolades in Kanes and Sundance fests, however failed at the Oscars.
Hard luck for a maker like Shaunak Sen who conceived that wonderful, visible yet not cared for issue of Kites failed at the academy awards.
Even the Writings With Fire, docus made by Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas, both mentored by Sen even could not make it into the Academy Awards inspite of the nominations.
It was overall a mix of good and bad Sunday as some hope full ones just faltered on that day.
Whatever, but the Indian productions have already climbed up to Global acceptance and it is time that, the Bollywood makers must run home to introspect other than peddling through controversies before the releases.
Obviously that gives return but not the rope to the fame of Academy.
Spotlight at last
Surely there is some realisation about Indian cinema among critics and Oscar voters—Americans and the recently added foreign members who were brought in to add the faces of diversity to the Academy rolls.
Like RRR, there are so many more extravagant, commercial Indian films made in various languages, but they rarely get distribution outside the Indian diaspora circles in the US and very few of them get noticed by mainstream American critics.
The Oscar for The Elephant Whisperers was partly the result of the behind-the-scenes work by its producer Guneet Monga.
However, it is fascinating that two Indian feature-length documentaries made it all the way to get nominated for the Oscars is a fabulous feeling. And a lesson for film-makers in Bollywood.
