This story is from September 21, 2013

'The Good Road' is India's Oscar nomination

Gujarati film “The Good Road” will be India’s nomination in the best foreign film category for the Oscars.
'The Good Road' is India's Oscar nomination
HYDERABAD: Gujarati film “The Good Road” will be India’s nomination in the best foreign film category for the Oscars. After watching 22 films, a committee set up by the Film Federation of India selected the film, directed by debutant Gyan Correa to be sent as India’s nomination for the Academy Awards.
FFI deputy secretary Anindhya Das Gupta told The Times of India that in all the nominations received this time were 22 from different languages.
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“The Good Road’ was produced by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC). Some Telugu films also threw in their hat in the ring to be considered for the nominations but they did not meet the grade that committee had in mind.
Last year also, the FFI watched the films in Hyderabad itself to select the Oscar nomination.
There were quite a few favourites to win the nomination but it was “The Good Road” which pleased the committee the most. There were films like “The Lunch box” and also “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag” in the fray but the Gujarati film made the grade. Even Kamal Haasan’s “Vishwaroopam” was a contender.
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Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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