India and Oscar - Part 2

Yesterday, Film Federation of India announced the India's entry to OSCAR - Rang De Basanti. Prime theme is 'If the system has some problem or some weeds, Youths should not sit back and watch. They need to be more responsible and should try to change the system itself'. Surely a better option than 'Jeans' and 'Paheli'. But, as Prasad said, songs and other commercial elements will hinder the chances of getting into the top 5. Most of the songs were used perfectly by the director. He needs to trim the title song. Dialogues are a great plus for the movie. Also the BGM. We need to wait and watch.

Canada's entry is Deepa Mehta's Water, a movie about the misery underwent by Indian Widows in olden days.

One common factor is both has music by A R Rahman. (Though BGM of Water is by Mychael Danna)

India and Oscar

On one good day I was watching NDTV which always conduct a SMS poll around 9 PM. The question they put forward was 'Whether we are sending right films to OSCAR?'

I just want to forward the same question in this blogs. Adding to that, I like to ask few more questions.

Q1. Whether we need to achieve OSCAR? Don't you think it is similar to Miss World or Miss Universe who is selected based upon 40 judge(s)'s opinion? Why an Indian movie need to satisfy a foreign audiences who don't know our culture?

Q2. If yes, 'Whether we are sending right films to OSCAR?' [Is it correct to send movies like 'Jeans' and 'Paheli' to OSCAR?] Whether we need to send offbeat cinema or commercial cinema to OSCAR?

Q3. Which movie, in your opinion, would have won an OSCAR if we had sent it to OSCARS? (really a glaring omission in the past)

Q4. Finally, Whether we have the potential and talent to achieve this??

Expecting some of your thoughts on this as blogspot has lot of (English) Movie buff...