Aamir Khan-Kiran Rao’s film Laapataa Ladies out of Oscars 2025; Hansal Mehta & Ricky Rej strongly react

Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao’s film Laapataa Ladies (renamed Lost Ladies) fails to secure a spot on the Oscars 2025 shortlist for Best International Feature. The list was revealed on December 17, 2024. After the final list was out, several people were disappointed.

Laapataa Ladies out of Oscars 2025 race

On December 17, the Academy announced the shortlist for various categories. Sadly, Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies, aka Lost Ladies, has not made it to the short list of Best International Feature Film Category. However, the United Kingdom’s Hindi film Santosh has made it to the list.

Hansal Mehta reacts to Laapataa Ladies not getting shortlisted

Hansal took to his X handle on late Tuesday night and shared the shortlist of the Best International Feature category at the 97th Academy Awards. He wrote sarcastically in the caption, “Film Federation of India does it again! Their strike rate and selection of films year after year is impeccable.”

Film Federation of India does it again! Their strike rate and selection of films year after year is impeccable. pic.twitter.com/hiwmatzDbW

— Hansal Mehta (@mehtahansal) December 17, 2024

Grammy Award winner Ricky Kej also reacted to the snub. “So, the @TheAcademy Oscars shortlist is out. #LaapataaLadies is a very well made, entertaining movie (I enjoyed it), but was absolutely the wrong choice to represent India for the best #InternationalFeatureFilm category. As expected, it lost. When are we going to realize.. year after year.. we are choosing the wrong films. There are so many excellent movies made, and we should be winning the #InternationalFeatureFilm category every year!” Ricky said.

“Unfortunately we live in a “Mainstream Bollywood” bubble, where we cannot look beyond films that we ourselves find entertaining. Instead we should just look for good films made by film-makers who are uncompromising in their art.. low budget or big budget.. star or no star.. just great artistic cinema. Below is the poster of #LaapataaLadies, I am sure most academy voting members dismissed the film just by looking at these,” he shared.

About Laapataa Ladies

Laapataa Ladies was produced by Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao, and Jyoti Deshpande under the banners of Aamir Khan Productions, Kindling Pictures, and Jio Studios. Released in March 2024, the film stars Nitanshi Goel, Pratibha Ranta and Sparsh Shrivastava alongside Ravi Kishan, Chhaya Kadam, and Geeta Aggarwal Sharma.

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