Today (23 September 2024), the Film Federation of India announced that Laapataa Ladies , directed by Kiran Rao and produced by Aamir Khan, has been selected as India’s official entry for the Best Foreign Film category at the 97th Academy Awards. Laapataa Ladies – which stars Pratibha Ranta, Sparsh Srivastava, and Nitanshi Goel – made waves with critically acclaimed screenings, including an appearance at the 48th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Now, the Film Federation of India is receiving flack for its Jury’s Citation on Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies .
In the Jury’s Citation, the Film Federation of India wrote, “Indian women are a strange mixture of submission and dominance. Well-defined, powerful characters in one world, Laapataa Ladies (Hindi) captures this diversity perfectly, though in a semi-idyllic world and in a tongue-in-cheek way. It shows you that women can happily desire to be home makers as well as rebel and be entrepreneurially inclined.
A story that can simultaneously be seen as one that needs change, and one that can bring about change. Laapataa Ladies (Hindi) is a film that can engage, entertain and make sense not just to women in India but universally as well..
.” “Indian women are a strange mixture of submission and dominance” the FFI says in its jury citation for LAAPATAA LADIES. You can’t make this shit up.
pic.twitter.com/ySC372FZoW — Poulomi Das (@PouloCruelo) September 23, 2024 That citation is so offensive that it's fu.