Kiran Rao Reacts To Laapataa Ladies Not Making It To The Oscars 2025 Shortlist
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Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies received widespread critical acclaim and was loved by audiences worldwide. The ace director reacts to her film not making it to the Academy Awards 2025 shortlist.
Kiran Rao’s comedy-drama Laapataa Ladies was celebrated worldwide last year with its impeccable storytelling and performances. Eversince its release, critics and audiences have showered the film with love, and they continue to do so.
The world rejoiced when her film was India’s official entry for the prestigious 97th Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category. However, as the results were announced yesterday, the film unfortunately did not make it to the shortlist and that unleashed a wave of disappointment across the industry.
Upon its release last year, the film had quite the ride at several International Film Festivals, namely the 48th Toronto International Film Festival 2023, where it bagged the award for Best Film (Critics’ Choice), and the Indian Film Festival at Melbourne. Hence, the reaction from the masses on its dismissal from the Oscars 2025 race didn’t come as a surprise.
Kiran Rao, too, got emotional and shared a reaction on the same. The official Instagram page of the film shared a heartfelt post on it not making it to the Oscars this year. Soon after the director reshared the same post along with a heart emoji.
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The film team extended their heartfelt gratitude for the immense love and appreciation received for the film. A snippet of the long post read, “We extend our gratitude to the Academy members and the FFI jury for considering our film. To be included in this prestigious process alongside some of the finest films from across the world is an honor in itself. Our heartfelt thanks to all the audiences around the world who have expressed their love and support for our film.”
Though India was saddened by this news, there’s still Shahana Goswami’s Hindi Language Film Santosh which made it to the Oscars list as the United Kingdom’s entry in the Documentary Short Film Category.
