What’s Indian about Santosh?

What’s Indian about Santosh?

Never before has the United Kingdom picked a Hindi-language film as its official entry for the Best International Feature Oscar. British-Indian documentarian Sandhya Suri’s narrative feature debut Santosh is not, however, the first subcontinental film to earn the distinction. Sarmad Masud’s Urdu film My Pure Land, “a modern-day feminist Western set in Pakistan”, was the U.K.’s […]

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Film academy reviewing Oscar campaigns after Andrea Riseborough’s surprise nomination

Film academy reviewing Oscar campaigns after Andrea Riseborough’s surprise nomination

Andrea Riseborough | Photo Credit: MAJA SMIEJKOWSKA Hollywood’s film academy said on Friday it was reviewing this year’s campaigns for Oscar nominations, a day after a media report raised questions about the surprise nod for British actress Andrea Riseborough. On Tuesday, Riseborough was nominated for best actress for playing an alcoholic single mother in little-seen […]

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