There's no blockbuster like Slumdog Millionaire in the reckoning but India's poverty story is again under the Oscar scanner with US director Gregg Helvey's Hindi film Kavi about child labour being nominated in the short film (live action) category.
There's no blockbuster like Slumdog Millionaire in the reckoning but India's poverty story is again under the Oscar scanner with US director Gregg Helvey's Hindi film Kavi about child labour being nominated in the short film (live action) category.
Last year, the India story was projected through three films -- Slumdog Millionaire, the rags to riches story of a slum boy, and two documentaries The Final Inch and Smile Pinki.
In an earlier era, veteran Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray, who was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award, was criticised by actress Nargis for "selling Indian poverty abroad to win awards".
