It is an every Indian’s question that, “why Indian films are not being selected for Oscars?” Oscar is a dream award for every technician, working for films. However, the glittering 13.5-inch statuette of a knight holding a crusader’s sword on a reel of film is continuing to evade India from many years. Although, the creativity, talent, script, and technology every thing is improving, Indian cinemas are still unable to cross some of the barriers.The Oscar jury selects American and British language films for all section of awards other than Best Foreign language films. Since all the countries across the world compete only for this particular category, it is hardest for any country to achieve the award. Foreign language film award at Oscars, where only one picture was accepted from each country, do not do justice to such a large industry
Although, Indian movies cannot match the Hollywood standards, the film-makers these days are trying hard for a healthy development in terms of financially and technically. The makers are not getting compromised with the quality and art these days. Bollywood also has great actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh khan, Aamir and other directors who are world-wide famous. Indian films follow rich culture and tradition while, the hollywood come up with innovative ideas in scripts. The film industry is able to produce large number of box office hits even across the world.
Although, India is submitting the films since1957, very few of them have managed to get the nomination into final five races. It seems that, the academy tends to favor European films with France leading the foreign language film since, out of 61 years of nominations, 51 Oscars were won by European films while, just 5 won by Asian films.
The most prominent reason behind the academy failing to qualify as the best judge of films from all over the world is that the American academy that consists of only American jury members.
Oscars are monopolized by the westernized world by the standards of their own culture and the scenes pictured by their advanced technology, not giving much importance to the theme and story
Film Federation of India, responsible for selecting the official entry from India is not nominating right movies to the Oscars. Films like PAHELI and EKLAVYA are two such examples that were ruled out in the first stage of the competition. The problem with bollywood is that it is not proud of its best products. It is only proud of its star cast products.
Apart from Slum dog millionaire, directed by hollywood director Danny Boyle which is a Fox Searchlight pictures (not an Indian produced and directed movie), India scored duck in Oscars for the foreign film category.
Indian cinemas are still in learning stages of technologies in the cinematography field when compared to American and British level of film-making. Technical deficiencies is also one of the reason of not getting an Oscar
Indian films lacks from creativity and innovative ideas. The film-makers are opting for hollywood remakes instead of making new scripts. They were either making sequels to the movies or adopting ideas from hollywood scripts. The Indian film-makers focus on hero’s image rather than the importance of the scripts.
The Indian film-makers should also think in the point of winning awards rather than just concentrating commercially. Movies should also be made for laurels and not just for profits.
