The decision to nominate the Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan-starrer film as the Indian entry for the awards was confirmed by Film Federation of India President Vinod Pande. This is the third time that a film by Chopra will be going to the awards.
Writer Jaideep Sahni and director Shimit Amin on Chak De India's script being requested by the Oscar library.
Amit Masurkar's black comedy didn't make it to the next round.
After being together for 11 years, Hollywood's most controversial couple has now called it quits!
Aseem Chhabra and Sukanya Verma send in their predictions for the top Oscar awards.
Here's what your favourite Hollywood stars have been up to.
Pebbles, India's official entry in the international feature film category at the 2022 Academy Awards, is out of the Oscars race.
A leading lady in Hollywood musicals and comedies in the 1950s and 1960s, including 'Singin' in the Rain', was rushed to Cedars-Sinai hospital earlier on Wednesday, after an apparent stroke.
Irfan Khan on Bollywood and Oscar rejection
Athaiya, who won an Oscar for her work in the 1983 film Gandhi, passed away peacefully in her sleep, her daughter Radhika Gupta told PTI.
RRR threw a lifeline, or so it seemed -- to a world that was down in the dumps. Keeravani and his Naatu Naatu just happened to be in the right place at the right time, notes Saibal Chatterjee.
Like Slumdog Millionaire, RRR will remain a one-time phenomenon until another big, larger-than-life, Indian film connects with the critics in the West, predicts Aseem Chhabra.
Even as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decide if a film backed by a streaming service qualifies for a 'regular' feature nomination, both critics and audiences hope Mudbound makes it to the Oscars, says Nikita Puri.
Watch the trailers and predict the winner.
'After 56 years in the film industry, making over 200 films, I've broken so many bones, finally this is mine. I want to thank you, Hong Kong, such an incredible city, my hometown, my hood, who make me.'
Why were two of 2018's critically panned films awarded?! exclaims Aseem Chhabra.
Kirk Douglas was prolific as a film actor, with more than 90 credits to his name - ranging over six decades from the 1940s to the 2000s.
Raja Sen takes stock of the Oscar 2015 nominations.
'Visibility is very important, but visibility is also very expensive.' Swapnil Joglekar explores the Parasite phenomenon.
No one will outshine the Oscars stage this year.
If anyone thinks that the Golden Globes are insignificant, the Hollywood studios are out to prove them wrong.
There is a world that Satyajit Ray created in his films that I wanted to be a part of -- as Durga bathed in the rain to Ravi Shankar's music; when Charulata sat on the swing regretting she never had a child; and Aarti stood up in defence of her colleague. Aseem Chhabra shares interesting memoris of Satyajit Ray on the latter's birth centenary on May 2.
The 91st Annual Academy Awards was anything but boring, feels Aseem Chhabra.
'We are the same people who can quench a man's thirst and also kill him.'
There is a group of La La Land haters -- especially jazz aficionados who feel the film gives too much importance to a white man who sets out to save the musical genre associated with the African American community, points out Aseem Chhabra.
'Stories can change people.' 'But there's a story we have been afraid to see and hear about ourselves in this industry.' 'A story about which voices we respect and elevate, and which we tune out.' 'Story about who's offered a seat at the table and who is kept out of the rooms where the decisions are made.'
The vote was tied 7-7 until... Aseem Chhabra/Rediff.com reveals how Court was chosen as India's nominee for the Academy Awards.
Politics, favouritism and poor taste in cinema have contributed to embarrassing choices for the Oscar race in the past. This little gem from India needs the love, emotional and financial support from the government as well as the Indian film industry, argues Aseem Chhabra.
Mad Max: Fury Road has a very realistic chance of sweeping the Oscars, predicts Raja Sen.
Moments before Los Angeles basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and the seven others perished in a helicopter crash, the pilot had tried to climb out of layer of clouds, but the aircraft then banked sharply and lurched toward the ground. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) estimated Bryant's luxury passenger helicopter hit the ground at a speed of more than 2,000 feet (610 m) per minute.
Birdman. Boyhood. The Grand Budapest Hotel...
Aseem Chhabra is heartbroken that India overlooked the acclaimed film, The Lunchbox, as its Oscar nominee.
India scored at the recently-concluded Telluride Film Festival, reports Aseem Chhabra.
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