The jury panel of Film Federation of India (FFI) has selected Kiran Rao's film 'Laapta Ladies' from 29 films for Oscar 2025. This film will be India's official entry for Oscar. Most people are happy with 'Laapta Ladies' being selected for Oscar, but some people say that not 'Laapta Ladies' but Payal Kapadia's 'All We Imagine Is Light', which showed its magic at the Cannes Festival, was the right film for Oscar 2025. We asked some questions to film experts about this, so let's know what they think about this whole matter.
A senior journalist, while talking about both the films 'Missing Ladies' and 'All We Imagine Is Light', said, "Both the films are good. But Payal Kapadia's film 'All We Imagine Is Light' understands the international market. This film has already impressed the international audience in Cannes. Feminism shown in Indian films has always been appreciated in the Western market, so 'All We Imagine Is Light' was the right film for the Oscars."
Critic Aarti Saxena says that 'All We Imagine is Light' is a great film. But it is an Indo-French film. The most important thing in the parameters set by the jury panel this year was the 'Indianness' of the film, which is seen in Missing Ladies. But that thing is not seen in 'All We Imagine is Light'. On one hand, 'The Missing Ladies' Like any film one can watch, there is a different audience that likes 'All We Imagine Is Light', it will not be liked by everyone.
If the makers of 'All We Imagine Is Light' feel that their film can win an Oscar, then Payal Kapadia and her team can try themselves for Oscar 2025. 'All We Imagine Is Light' can be submitted as an independent nomination for Oscar, before this 12th Fail and RRR have also tried this.
Despite a film like 'All We Imagine Is Light', 'Laapata Ladies' being selected for Oscar 2025 is proof that the FFI jury cannot think beyond Hindi cinema or commercial cinema. In 2023, 'Zone of Interest' won the Oscar in the 'Best International Feature' category, but before winning the Oscar, it won the Grand Prix at Cannes, the same award that Payal Kapadia and her team recently received for 'All We Imagine Is Light'. Today, cinema all over the world is dependent on international co-production, it should not matter who is producing your film.
