Rajkummar Rao-Pankaj Tripathi starrer Newton’s Oscar dreams got shattered as it failed to get into the top 9 films.
Going into the details, Newton movie was announced as India’s official entry to the Oscar awards from India in the Best Foreign Language Category. Makers of Newton had huge expectations on their film and even the concept of elections in the largest democracy in the World made this film as a special one in the list.
Unfortunately, Newton movie didn’t make it to the last list. The other films across the world made to the last 9 films are- A Fantastic Woman (Chile), In the Fade (Germany), On Body and Soul (Hungary), Foxtrot (Israel), The Insult (Lebanon), Loveless (Russia), Felicite (Senegal), The Wound (South Africa) and The Square (Sweden).
The other Indian films- Mother India (1958), Salaam Bombay (1988) & Lagaan (2001) in the past made to the Oscars from India.