Director Kabir Khan is known for films like Ek Tha Tiger and New York.
Melbourne:
Filmmaker Kabir Khan feels its hightime that the Indian film industry stopped obsessing about theOscars.
"I think we are unnecessarily obsessed by Oscars. Lets notforget Oscars is an award ceremony for the US film industrywhich has one category amongst the various categories calledbest foreign film," Kabir Khan told PTI on the sidelines of threeweeks long Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM).
Khan said Oscars were not the ultimate criteria tovalidate a good film.
"Americans view film from their perspective like all of usdo and our perspective don't necessarily need to match. Ihonestly do not believe in this Oscar hype. There are otherinternational festival which have more internationalperspectives and viewpoint that we should be aiming attargeting into whether its Cannes or Venice," he said.
"Those are the places where they celebrate film from allover the world and not only one single category like Oscars.Oscar race is something which is completely hyped," Khan said.
Till now, only four Indians have held the golden statuettehowever, all for films directed by British filmmakers.
Kabir Khan said though A R Rahman has won an Oscar for his musicin Slumdog Millionaire it was not the best of his work.
"They were part of an American film and the film that gotreleased by a studio over there so that platform gotrecognised by the Americans," Kabir Khan said.
Kabir Khan is now working on his next project with Saif Ali Khanin October this year which is loosely based on a book writtenby celebrated writer Hussain Zaidi.
"The next film is a political thriller and currently weare working on who will be the lead actress," he said.Khan, who recently joined the elite 100 crore film clubthrough his film Ek Tha Tiger, said though it was lovely tomake it to that figure, there were other parameters to judgethe success of a film.
"Ek Tha Tiger was an expensive figure and it made itsown profit which was great. But for a low budget movie itwould be hard to touch that figure. As long as a movie churnsits own profit for their own budget it should be fine," Kabir Khansaid.
"I think we are unnecessarily obsessed by Oscars. Lets notforget Oscars is an award ceremony for the US film industrywhich has one category amongst the various categories calledbest foreign film," Kabir Khan told PTI on the sidelines of threeweeks long Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM).
Khan said Oscars were not the ultimate criteria tovalidate a good film.
"Americans view film from their perspective like all of usdo and our perspective don't necessarily need to match. Ihonestly do not believe in this Oscar hype. There are otherinternational festival which have more internationalperspectives and viewpoint that we should be aiming attargeting into whether its Cannes or Venice," he said.
"Those are the places where they celebrate film from allover the world and not only one single category like Oscars.Oscar race is something which is completely hyped," Khan said.
Till now, only four Indians have held the golden statuettehowever, all for films directed by British filmmakers.
Kabir Khan said though A R Rahman has won an Oscar for his musicin Slumdog Millionaire it was not the best of his work.
"They were part of an American film and the film that gotreleased by a studio over there so that platform gotrecognised by the Americans," Kabir Khan said.
Kabir Khan is now working on his next project with Saif Ali Khanin October this year which is loosely based on a book writtenby celebrated writer Hussain Zaidi.
"The next film is a political thriller and currently weare working on who will be the lead actress," he said.Khan, who recently joined the elite 100 crore film clubthrough his film Ek Tha Tiger, said though it was lovely tomake it to that figure, there were other parameters to judgethe success of a film.
"Ek Tha Tiger was an expensive figure and it made itsown profit which was great. But for a low budget movie itwould be hard to touch that figure. As long as a movie churnsits own profit for their own budget it should be fine," Kabir Khansaid.
