On 23 September 2014, Geethu Mohandas’s Hindi-language
feature film Liar's Dice was selected for India’s official entry
in the 2015 Oscars Awards.
The 87th Oscar Awards event is going to take place in US on
22 February 2015.
The movie was nominated for the Best Foreign Language
Film category.
Out of 30 entries,
this movie was chosen unanimously by 12-member jury headed by eminent
filmmaker T. Hariharan.
About Liar's Dice film
Liar’s Dice was released in Thiruvananthapuram on 19
September2014 and will open in Pune on 26 September 2014.
It will be exhibited across the country in November 2014 by
PVR Pictures.
The movie stars national award winning actors Geetanjali
Thapa and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
The movie is set along the Himachal-Tibet border. It deals
with distress migration. Liar’s Dice is about the adventures of Kamala, her daughter
and a mysterious man who meet them during their travels. Looking for her
missing husband, Kamala is both intrigued and frightened by brooding character
of Siddiqui.
It has won the best cinematography honour for Rajeev Ravi
and best actress title for Geetanjali at the 61st National Film Awards in 2014.
Moreover, it was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and
International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The film was also premiered at the Mumbai Film Festival
(MFF) in 2013.
India and Oscar Awards
India has never won an Oscar in the best foreign film
category.
The last Indian film that made it to the final five nominees
at the Oscar Awards was Ashutosh
Gowariker's Lagaan.
Mother India and Salaam Bombay were the other two Indian
films that managed to make it to the top
five nominees at the Oscar Awards.
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