Academy Award-winning producer Guneet Monga Kapoor, who brought home two Oscars with documentary short films ‘ ’ and ‘Period. End of Sentence’, sat down for Mid-day’s podcast series The Bombay Film Story to discuss how India can win the prestigious global validation by simply investing in an American distributor. ADVERTISEMENT Guneet Monga reveals how India can win an Oscar Guneet spoke to Mid-day before India could send its official entry for Oscars 2025.
The Film Federation of India has selected Kiran Rao’s ‘Laapataa Ladies’ this year. The producer says, “If India has to choose a film for Oscars, it's very important that you have an American distributor. Your journey there becomes easier.
” ‘Laapataa Ladies’ is the third film from Aamir Khan’s production house to have been submitted after ‘Lagaan’ and ‘Taare Zameen Par’. That being said, only ‘Lagaan’ managed to get a nomination. Guneet explains, “That's because Sony Picture Classic distributed it there.
We missed that point. But to every person and journalist, please send films with US distributors. Netflix was there on ‘Period.
End of Sentence’ and ‘The Elephant Whisperers’. They're solid US distributors. They have a mechanism, they know the work, and they have fabulous marketing.
” How ‘RRR’ won an Oscar without India’s official entry 'Naatu Naatu' from ‘ ’ was the first Telugu song to be nominated in the 'Original Song' category at the Oscars. It won the award tr.