Why Indian Movies are not winning Oscars?

It is an every Indian’s question that, “why Indian films are not being selected for Oscars?” Oscar is a dream award for every technician, working for films. However, the glittering 13.5-inch statuette of a knight holding a crusader’s sword on a reel of film is continuing to evade India from many years. Although, the creativity, talent, script, and technology every thing is improving, Indian cinemas are still unable to cross some of the barriers.

The Oscar jury selects American and British language films for all section of awards other than Best Foreign language films. Since all the countries across the world compete only for this particular category, it is hardest for any country to achieve the award. Foreign language film award at Oscars, where only one picture was accepted from each country, do not do justice to such a large industry

Although, Indian movies cannot match the Hollywood standards, the film-makers these days are trying hard for a healthy development in terms of financially and technically. The makers are not getting compromised with the quality and art these days. Bollywood also has great actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh khan, Aamir and other directors who are world-wide famous. Indian films follow rich culture and tradition while, the hollywood come up with innovative ideas in scripts. The film industry is able to produce large number of box office hits even across the world.

Although, India is submitting the films since1957, very few of them have managed to get the nomination into final five races. It seems that, the academy tends to favor European films with France leading the foreign language film since, out of 61 years of nominations, 51 Oscars were won by European films while, just 5 won by Asian films.

The most prominent reason behind the academy failing to qualify as the best judge of films from all over the world is that the American academy that consists of only American jury members.

Oscars are monopolized by the westernized world by the standards of their own culture and the scenes pictured by their advanced technology, not giving much importance to the theme and story

Film Federation of India, responsible for selecting the official entry from India is not nominating right movies to the Oscars. Films like PAHELI and EKLAVYA are two such examples that were ruled out in the first stage of the competition. The problem with bollywood is that it is not proud of its best products. It is only proud of its star cast products.

Apart from Slum dog millionaire, directed by hollywood director Danny Boyle which is a Fox Searchlight pictures (not an Indian produced and directed movie), India scored duck in Oscars for the foreign film category.

Indian cinemas are still in learning stages of technologies in the cinematography field when compared to American and British level of film-making. Technical deficiencies is also one of the reason of not getting an Oscar

Indian films lacks from creativity and innovative ideas. The film-makers are opting for hollywood remakes instead of making new scripts. They were either making sequels to the movies or adopting ideas from hollywood scripts. The Indian film-makers focus on hero’s image rather than the importance of the scripts.

The Indian film-makers should also think in the point of winning awards rather than just concentrating commercially. Movies should also be made for laurels and not just for profits.

Knowing Cricket

This article is uploaded with the intentions of promoting cricket within non cricket playing nations, as a service to the game and the ICC

Rules of Cricket

The "Laws" or "Les Rules de Criquet" are simple, and are summarised by the International Crocheting Club (ICC) as follows:

1. Each game requires 2 teams, who get to hit their balls (when they are called the 'batsmen' and not 'batters' as in Baseball, or 'batty' as in Northern Englishmen) or to bowl (not pitch or throw or chuck) their balls then chase after them ('fielding').
2. One round of hitting the balls is called an innings (from the Latin "an outing, or picnic", plural innit, as in: "This game is a bit of a picnic, innit?").
3. A game comprises 2 innings (innit) or sometimes 4, but more often now there is less and the game can last between 3 hours (called 20-20) or one day (25-25 or 50-50) or 5 days (Torture or Test cricket), depending on how long the teams can be bothered playing or until the spectators go home.
4. Each team has 12 players each although only 11 play and the 12th man is called the "12th man" and he gets the drinks. One team fields and bowls, aiming for the batsman's bails, while the batsmen try to hit their balls as far as possible without the other team grabbing their balls and hitting the wicket (then declared a "sticky wicket").
5. When the batsman who's in is out, then he goes off and the next man comes on until he's out. The object of the game for the batsman therefore is to make sure he doesn't go out. The end of an innings is declared when 10 batsmen are out, even though there are 11 playing not counting the 12th man. So there is a batsman still in although his team is out, but he has to go off. When the batsmen are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.
6. There are two additional fat men called umpires who stay all out all day and give the batsmen who are in out. But a batsman is not out unless the fielders appeal first to the umpires by giving them ritualistic gifts or sly winks and nudges. If the fielders are sleeping or have wandered off somewhere then the batsman is not given out and stays in. But if the umpires don't like something, such as player interfering with another player behind the sight screen, then the umpires can declare that it's simply not cricket which means it's cricket but shouldn't be.
7. An over is when the bowler has 6 or sometimes 8 balls. If he has had no balls then he may have more than the normal number of balls. An innings may be over after 40 overs, or 25, or 20, or sometimes a lot less if there's been a "follow-on", if you follow.
8. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, including those who are not out, and both sides have been out twice or maybe once or less if someone declared or it rained, then that is the end of the game!
9. An additional tactic involves the majority of players trying not to bat by standing around fielding. The batsmen may also refuse to hit their balls, preferring to "block" continually. This tactic was made famous by "Blocker Lawry", who was sadly disembowelled by an angry and bored crowd. If the game is delayed long enough, such as more than 5 days, a "draw" is declared. If one team has more wins than draws they win, although this method risks rioting by the spectators.
10. If the bowler hits an off-stump leg-bye then a sticky wicket is called and the game breaks for tea; however, should an elbow on-side be called, unless it's caused by a spin-twist shot or a slippy duck, then the innings may be declared over or the over innings. In the case of the deep-wide short-fine leg being run out by the slip's backward point boundary man, the batting team are forced to substitute their 12th man for a golden duck and a cup of Dilmah Tea.
11. The game may end very suddenly if all of the batsmen have a duck or the bowlers bowl 10 wicket maiden overs.
12. The alternative way to win is to play until there is any change in weather, or it gets too dark, or hot, or cold, or it's lunch or dinner, or the umpires get bored and take their balls home, or anything happens that simply isn't cricket.

However, despite the apparent simplicity of these rules, there remain a number of uncivilised nations in Northern Europe and North America and North Africa who are yet to embrace the civilising effects of the game of cricket.

(To be continued..)