Indian film fails

Indian film fails once again seems, to be struggling at Oscars 2025 to make quite the solid impact everyone had hoped for. With a vast history of talent having emerged from the country, the Oscars have always been the cherished stage upon which Bollywood would be shown, globally, moving ever forward.

This year, however, everything is left the same with Shine alone and that is not for everyone other than Anuja.
The 2025 Academy Awards might well turn out to be Indian cinema’s next big disappointment again as the country contends with a formidable bleak challenge to secure a place in the elite Oscar race.

Indian film fails at the Nomination Stage

The list of Indian films Shortlisted for the Best Picture category includes ‘Kanguva’ (Tamil), ‘Aadujeevitham’ (The Goat Life) (Hindi), ‘Santosh’ (Hindi), ‘Swatantrya Veer Savarkar’ (Hindi), ‘All We Imagine as Light’ (Malayalam-Hindi), ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ (Hindi-English), and ‘Putul’ (Bengali). But none of them could make the step into the Nomination stage.

Every year you get a feeling that the task gets stiffer and filmmakers toil at getting recognized globally appreciating what their art represents. A good number of films from India did very well in their respective years vis-à-vis their penetration through world platforms and otherwise.

Indian film fails again in Oscar race

Local boxes and other global film festivals should hardly be a venue for these films to breach a race for Oscars in major categories. It seems like this year has not premiered any Indian films in the direction or acting field.

What the accolade of Anuja represents is unfortunately nothing more than a ray. What comes before us is the monumental challenge that has lain ahead of the global film industry, and, sadly, gaping still is the current lack of respect for many elite filmmakers from Bombay.

In many ways, the Oscars-so-evaluated and superior-only-Western-narrative frenzy, with little room for any other flavour of world cinema or artistic distinction from abroad, really lack the soul of showing more inclusive images and rich representation of global stories for a very long time.
The need for reflection at the Oscars and its further amendment is for the worst outside the cinema screens. Animation as a medium is immensely successful and vastly recognized, while internationally it stands as one of the most prolific forms of expression in filmmaking.