India selects 'Liar's Dice' as entry for Oscars 2015

Published September 25, 2014
Pakistan's Dukhtar (L) and India's Liar Dice (R) will be competing to make it to the final five nominations in Foreign Language Film Award category.
Pakistan's Dukhtar (L) and India's Liar Dice (R) will be competing to make it to the final five nominations in Foreign Language Film Award category.

While Pakistan has selected Afia Nathaniel's Dukhtar to be submitted for Oscar consideration in the 'Foreign Language Film Award’ category at the 87th Academy Awards, India has chosen National Film Award winning Geetu Mohandas's Liar's Dice as its official entry for the prestigious show.

As reported by Hindustan Times, the Film Federation of India (FFI) selected the film which has Kahani famed Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Geetanjali Thapa in its lead.

It bagged the awards for Best Cinematography and Best Actress in the 61st National Film Awards.

Liar's Dice is about a young mother who along with her daughter and pet goat sets out to Delhi to find her missing husband.

The film was picked from a long list of 30 films which included Kangana Ranaut's Queen, Rajkummar Rao's Shahid and a Bengali film, Jaatishwar.

In the past, three of the Indian submissions, Mother India (1957), Salaam Bombay (1988) and Lagaan (2001) managed to make it to the final 5 nominations at the Academy Awards.

While India has been sending its film each year, the Pakistani Academy Selection Committee selected Zinda Bhaag in 2013 as the first Pakistani film in over fifty years to be submitted for Oscar consideration in the 'Foreign Language Film Award’ category.

Earlier in 2012, filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy became the first Pakistani filmmaker to earn an Oscar with her documentary Saving Face, which was nominated in the “Documentary (Short Subject)” category.

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