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Oscar Award and Indians

Every Indian news Channel , started following the Oscars with keen interest this year, more so because this year we have an Indian(?) film the Slumdog Millionnaire being nominated for a whooping number (10 ?) of Oscars.

Getting nominated for Oscars is certainly not a new thing for Indian film in recent times going by Lagaan and another film by Mira nair I guess which went into the Academy for nomination.
But strangely I am really puzzled by the sense of Pride that we show towards this Award. This is really an American award given BY the Americans, FOR the American films and TO the American film world( Thanks to Kamal Hasan who coined this phrase in line with democracy definition) which has excelled as per their knowledge of best workmanship in line with their culture. Of course their is one Award in the Category of best Foreign film

What according to me should change is that the point that only if it is recognised by the American world , should be think that film or artist the best in the trade ?
Of course not. The Oscar Fraternity is not going to recognise some of our own Indian Classic that we have come up be it Tamil, Hindi , Malayalam or any Indian Language because they are not exposed to this culture to understand the points portrayed by them. Similarly we have great Film personalities be it AR Rahman or Kamalhasan or our own Sivaji ganesan who have scaled many miles which others have not even attempted. There was a saying that had Sivaji ganesan been born in US he would have almost won atleast one Oscar each year.

So do come out of this fact that we have to be recognised by the western world even though we have stalwarts in our own country who have achieved much beyond what an Oscar can appreciate.



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