Indian Films at the Academy Awards

     

Year	Film	Language	Director
1957	Mother India	Hindi	Mahbbob Khan
1962	Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam	Hindi	Abrar Alvi
1969	Deiva Magan	Tamil	Kiran K.Chenna
1971	Reshma aur Shera	Hindi	Sunil Dutt
1972	Uphaar	Hindi	Sudhendu Roy
1973	Saudagar	Hindi	Sudhendu Roy
1974	Garam Hawa	Hindi	M.S.Sathyu
1977	Manthan	Hindi	Shyam Benegal
1978	Shatranj ke Khiladi	Hindi	Satyajit Ray
1980	Payal ki Jhankar	Hindi	Satyen Bose
1984	Saaransh	Hindi	Mahesh Bhatt
1985	Saagar	Hindi	Ramesh Sippy
1986	Swathi Muthayam	Telugu	K.Vishwanath
1987	Nayagan	Tamil	Mani Ratnam
1988	Salaam Bombay	Hindi	Mira Nair
1989	Parinda	Hindi	V.V.Chopra
1990	Anjali	Tamil	Mani Ratnam
1991	Heena	Hindi	Randhir Kapoor
1992	Thevar Magan	Tamil	Bharathan
1993	Rudaali	Hindi	Kalpana Lajmi
1994	Bandit Queen	Hindi	Shekhar Kapoor
1995	Kuruthipunal	Tamil	P.C.Sreeram
1996	Indian	Tamil	S.Shankar
1997	Guru	Malyalam	Rajiv Anchal
1998	Jeans	Tamil	S.Shankar
1999	Earth	Hindi	Deepa Mehta
2000	Hey Ram	Tamil / Hindi	Kamal Haasan
2001	Lagaan	Hindi	Asutosh Gowariker
2002	Devdas	Hindi	Sanjay L.Bhansali
2004	Shwaas	Marathi	Sandeep Sawant
2005	Paheli	Hindi	Amol Palekar
2006	Rang de Basanti	Hindi	Rakeysh O.Mehra
2007	Eklavya – The Royal Guard	Hindi	V.V.Chopra
2008	Taare Zameen Par	Hindi	Aamir Khan

 

In the romance with the Golden Statue…

Slumdog Millionaire reaches a speculated finish at the 81^st AcademyAward. Eight awards for the film is a miraculous win. Rahman winning the Golden Globe, and the film’s performance at BAFTA had created the intuition for the film to be winning at least under this category of Original Composition at the Academy Awards function. And now the film has bagged eight awards, giving three to its Indian contributors.

All the newspapers of this morning are cloloured with the stories of this historical win. Big mouthed critics and indifferent personalities are left with no other way than praising the moment. Above all celebrations at Dharavi is remarkable and worth joining. At least our beauty is admired outside.

Slumdog Millionaire becomes the second overseas film, after Gandhi to perform excellently at the Academy Awards function. To be correct Gandhi was an Indo-Overseas production. Even that film shared victory with Bhany Athaiya, an Indian costume designer of the film. Moreover, even Gandhi won Golden Globe and BAFTA, the same year before winning eight Academy awards.

Indian themes have the potential of being admired and appreciated. Unfortunately non of the Indian creators of cinema in India, other than Mahboob Khan (Mother India), Satyajit Ray (Satranj ke Khiladi), Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay) and Asutosh Gowariker (Lagaan) made their presence felt at the Academy Awards function.

(All the films mentioned above were nominated for Oscar)