Aamir Khan-Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies out of the Oscar 2025 race: Ricky Kej says 'was absolutely the wrong choice to represent India for the...'
FirstpostThe Academy announced the films shortlisted in the category on Tuesday and Laapataa Ladies didn’t make it to the cut Kiran Rao’s directorial and Aamir Khan’s production venture Laapataa Ladies, which was India’s official submission for the Best International Feature category, is out of the Oscars 2025 race. #LaapataaLadies is a very well made, entertaining movie, but was absolutely the wrong choice to represent India for the best #InternationalFeatureFilm category. year… pic.twitter.com/iWGpSXY1KD — Ricky Kej December 18, 2024 Grammy winner Ricky Kej reacted to the snub and said that Laapataa Ladies ‘was absolutely wrong choice to represent India’. There are so many excellent movies made, and we should be winning the #InternationalFeatureFilm category every year!” Ricky Kej wrote on X.